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I read these magazines on Project Gutenberg. A lot of these poems appear to be satirical and/or pushing political agendas. I have insufficient knowledge of 19th century politics in the region to be clear on all of what's being referenced. I skipped over a lot of lines that alluded to people I've never heard of and that might (or might not) be of interest to someone writing a story set then and there. There was at least one poem I chose not to excerpt because of the presence of the n-word, and the magazine issues generally contain a lot of racism/exoticization, sexism, etc. I did not read the articles, but some of the article titles are clearly indicative. YMMV, but I consider these well into the 'Here be dragons' part of my figurative map.


Prosperity, fat and fullhanded, arrived at our door - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Float to our coasts with each prosperous breeze - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Prowl round the stackyards with tinder and match - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Promised us shortly two millions a week - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Mere Resurrectionists trying to get at the grave of the laws - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Deep in the grave where your idol is laid - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

These are the triumphs of science political - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

We'll take a yard since you gave us an inch - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Even the wisest may sometimes miscalculate - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Let them be wiped from our memory quite - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Modern views have an opposite tendency - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

March with a steady toe out of the frying-pan - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Joseph's fat cattle and atrophied kine - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

As gleams the sunrise on the deep - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Which owns the New Year's birth - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Latest link of Time's long chain - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Dark tempests may obscure awhile the potent ray - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

And Treason walk secure the scene - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Morning o'er the deep shall call us jubilee - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

To succor truth, to startle time - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

While shouts of rival nations rose - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Far less shall a friend be convicted unheard - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

I'll make you eat up each ungenerous world - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Till secrecy's seal from their lips be removed - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

The words here inscribe shall again be approved - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Design'd of its honours his fame to despoil - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Not utterly void of foundation in fact - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Resolved for a time on that ruinous act - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

When the ears of the sow yield us purses - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

When there's no Devil's Dust in the Cotton Lord's shams - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

And the truck-master's pail holds unmystified milk - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

In swaggering impotence caught and confess'd - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Who drove them forth in alien fields to toil - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

A heavy blight came down from heaven - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

What the pestilence had touched ne'er rose to life again - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Want and famine raged around - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Who had ta'en the grievous curse away - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

No one spoke of faith or honour more - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

For nothing but to gather gold - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Ruin like a biting frost upon the country fell - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Within the towns was naught but foreign bread - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

By foreign serfs beyond the seas the people now were fed - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

That for a thousand years had dwelt within the glen - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Sharp hunger forced us to the mills - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Her glory lay in cotton bales and yards of flimsy ware - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

With sharpened pain and wasting sobs - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Wring their wealth from woe and pain - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Whose living souls no kindred own - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

The peasant's curse upon his head - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Let no doubt your bosoms darken - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

Tempt him not within the door - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

Till the birds forbore their call - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

Might hear something of that magic - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

But jaundiced all with bitter pride - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

Oppressed with jealousy and care - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

No soul had he for wanton strains - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

His deepest thoughts were bent on drains - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

As stars look on the night - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

Announced an unexpected fall - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

Of Cupid's entrance all beware - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

Tide so sullied with a hue unknown - "Danube and the Euxine" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazing, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]

Bring pollution to the old and sacred sea - "Danube and the Euxine" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazing, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]

Thor and Odin held their battles by my side - "Danube and the Euxine" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazing, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]

Plunging downward through their wild anarchic land - "Danube and the Euxine" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazing, no.CCCXCVII, v.LXIV, Nov. 1848]

And down with it the carpenter unto the beasts below - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Just to please the hungry swine - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

The pigs demand the sacrifice - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Rather than offend my swine I would uproot the tree - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Held a Satan's carnival beneath the fated tree - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Came downward with an angry angel's stride - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Helter-skelter from the tree rushed forth - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

A wizard once of dreaded power - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

An opening bright revealed a vision of the sky - "The Early Taken" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXVI, v.LXI, Feb. 1847]

Another sight that stayed the torrent of her grief - "The Early Taken" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXVI, v.LXI, Feb. 1847]

While crowds around applaud his doom - "The Early Taken" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXVI, v.LXI, Feb. 1847]

The fond attachments of a flower and bird - "East and West" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

That things so fair a mutual bond obey - "East and West" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

Of kindred feelings weaves this mystic band - "East and West" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

Mixing our pleasure in a goblet wide - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Successive glances from the circling sun - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Reveres the stillness of the syren's cell - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

In bacchanal exuberance burst and blow - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Breathless along Pompeii's streets we strayed - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Where wreathed Bacchantes float on every wall - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Where yet Silenus grasps the woodland cup - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Maintains one barren blank from age to age - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

With the future and the past no commerce holds - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Where priests and jesters, side by side, range - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Passion, from Affection's bond cut loose - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Creeps on its belly to its grave of dust - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

And, girt not less with ruin, lives to show - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

To fight the flame it summons us - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

Off dash the thundering engines, like goblin jäger-chase - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

In the lava-cracks by the volcano's brink - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

Gallant music to cheer it on its way - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

That fought that day with Nelson at the Nile - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

From the livid thunder-cloud he leaps alive on earth - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

The northern streamers paled Napoleon's lurid star - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

Left a heap behind, of ashes slaked in blood - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

At length our pens must find repose - "For the Last Page of 'Our Album'" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCVI, Aug. 1849, v.LXVI]

Composed to grace an hour of pleasure - "For the Last Page of 'Our Album'" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCVI, Aug. 1849, v.LXVI]

Colder grown by force or art - "For the Last Page of 'Our Album'" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCVI, Aug. 1849, v.LXVI]

Time orbs so silently beneath our feet - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

The Past and Future dip as they recede - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

And only give to view the tops of things - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

The West stealing o'er a field of hay - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Whose angry labours wound the ear of Noon - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Ignorant of darker days to come - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Ten years had poured their various gifts on earth - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Disgraced by acts of lawless violence - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Went back to a ruined parent's ruined home - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

To feed his heart on innutritious dreams - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Dancing on a thousand thousand trees - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Pale and purse-proud children of the fog - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

The desolate abomination stands most proudly - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Gold, the cursed cause of all - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

As who alone rewards its worshippers - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

For I am of those whose will is Destiny - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Till the Princes of Earth bow low to kiss his stirrup - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Some of his hopes were crowned with triumph - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Deceit and violence gave the rule of life - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

May bless those who abide its visitings - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Even when marred and mixed with wrong - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

And lead in happiness on a path of thorns - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Men stained as he pronounced his doom - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Whirling the sand in dense and overwhelming canopy - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Scared away the timid monster of two elements - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Gathered in their separate brotherhoods - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

That the moon shed curses on his face - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

That wreak on foes their masters' will - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Two unextinguished furnaces of woe within - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Or ever cease to think upon its wrongs - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

The fierce extremes of dalliance and of blood - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Old in the arts of peace and war - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Resolved to stand the hazard of a fight - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

And the Sun even when it dealt destruction - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

From the dark shrine to the gate Beautiful - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Upon the fatal night before the storm - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Containing doubts long since become negations - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Not a leaf but marked some downward step - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Like poor sheep marked for the slaughter - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Hoping to pass the camp all unobserved - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

And win himself a name for riches and adventure - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

All bow the knee to him whom Fortune serves - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

There the great oak shall stir his solemn head - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Fifty unspeakable ones had borne his soul - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Into a sideless, roofless, bottomless place - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

A heap of rotten leaves blown to the shores of folly - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Echoing beyond the hollow halls of Hell - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Cliff heaped on cliff, and stone on fragment stone - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Paid to the treasury of the insatiate flood - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

I die of want upon a bed of gold - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

While in floods the harvest lies - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Though the farmer's hope may perish - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Quit your burden now or never - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Cut the shop and deal in shares - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Laugh henceforth at debt and dun - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Quit the turf or loaded bone - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Tribes that live by depredation - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Deep within the torrent dip - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Speed along with fire and fury - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

This precaution prudence begs - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Speeds our progress to the moon - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Ores from Mars and fires from Venus - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Lots of lead from Saturn's Ring - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Belts from Jupiter's own factory - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Bottled sunbeams from the sun - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Though not many travel back - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

What a gradient through Avernus - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

What a curve will Hades take - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

When with joy the Shades discern us - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

How Hell's terminus will shake - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

The Pandemonium Junction with the Central will combine - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Rattling both without compunction down the Tartarus incline - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Phlegethon no more need fright us - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Thoughts of penance need not haunt us - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Sorrow and want shall never touch thee - "Heigh-Ho!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]

Alone in her frail old age to grieve - "Heigh-Ho!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]

Heaven blesses true lovers so fairly - "Heigh-Ho!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]

We will not down in languor lie - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]

In peril's hour sustain a sinking land - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]

Let never Sloth unnerve the arm - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]

These words alone should work a charm - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]

Fearless urge the furrow deep - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]

Who are true to the altar and throne - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]

Though fears of rebellion hang over our heads - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]

Revolution disguised as Reform - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]

To prevent them from scuttling the ship - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]

What shrieks of indignant invective - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]

Fulfilling the fate such imposters should meet - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]

Eating your bushel of dirt - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]

Mysterious rites with solemn care - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Who still the Bacchic rites abhorr'd - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Lent heaven's own fire to generous wine - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Sought refuge from his rage in flight - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Mingled with all the blasts that shriek - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Though deepest silence dwells alone - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Wild Nature, spreading all her charms - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

If Reason's power fail'd in each reeling mind - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Share in draughs of joy too deep to bear - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Great was high Duty's power of old - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Cleverly work morals by machinery - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Keeping men virtuous by a tether - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

No marvel that they prospered so - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Though every thing beside was good - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Alternately at prayers and feasts - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Set his imps to mark the paths they trode [sic] - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

To catch them stumbling in the dark - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Angels and saints abandon him - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

And Satan stared as though ensnared - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Never pass'd me by in disrespectful haste - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

A drop more wine than you can carry home - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Who're apt to fall at times into excess - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Went forth with slow and tottering tread - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

To cope with One who should no longer live - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

And by an easy slaughter earn the guerdon - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Of matchless might and fearless soul - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

The untasted bait that bribed my soul - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

The bliss that Odin give to men who nobly die - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

But the hour of revenge is come - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

With each blessing sends an answering duty - "Let Never Cruelty Dishonour Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Resemble not the panther's treacherous seeming - "Let Never Cruelty Dishonour Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Seek not to match the basilisk's false gleaming - "Let Never Cruelty Dishonour Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

To all who court her offers fruits or flowers - "Let Never Cruelty Dishonour Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Hear the chime of coming thunders - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

When dark skies are writ with crimson prophecies - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Who sold celestial rights for earthly gold - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Marketing grace with merchant's measure - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

And stout hearts wince before - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

On Science' [sic] watch-tower stand sublime - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Proud palaces of cumbrous lies - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Shall eager seize the new-born truth - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Feeble hearts whose pulse is fear - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Amid the lies that haunt the day - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

The watchmen of the truth come forth - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Walks like a prophet in the van - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Share the Devil's doom in everlasting fire - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Annull'd the bond that sold the soul of man to man - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

The laws which none but slaves obey - "The Martyrs' Monument" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

Fresh and bright shone reason's light - "The Martyrs' Monument" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

By knaves and laws upbraided - "The Martyrs' Monument" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

Make a universal sweep of all that serves to show - "The Martyrs' Monument" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

I'd level straightway with the dust - "The Martyrs' Monument" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

Whose iron hand so ruthlessly kept down the tide - "The Martyrs' Monument" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

If temples must be built to crime - "The Martyrs' Monument" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

When freedom first appeared beneath - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

The still more welcome was her call - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

Has felt the impulse of the time - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

And donned the colours dear to crime - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

Knew Revenge was following near - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

The frantic mobs their chorus raise - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

Can witness all without a frown - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

The cynosure of all beholders - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

The Goddess with the mask and dagger - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

To exiled patriots vote their greeting - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

Won't tell you that he worships Freedom - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

Nor dreaming that a foe was near - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

Those who stand by laws and kings - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

Must look for recompense unpleasant - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

Deeds like these pollute our hearth - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

Most ignoble end of all our boasted order - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

With Jason ventured for the fated Golden Fleece - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Of a second Argo steering before a prosperous gale - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

The sons of Agamemnon to their faith no longer true - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Saturnus triumphant in his high Olympian hall - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Unregarded by the mighty but detested by the small - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Is my sword a wreath of rushes - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Ere I opened all the thunders of my war - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Time on its wings no healing brought - "The Mother and Her Dead Child" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Absolute, instant, entire abolition - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

The proximate cause of our present afflictions - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

Leave Nature alone to her vigour elastic - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

For bleeding and blistering, and easy bravado - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

What can mean these unpleasant surmises? - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

Because some jarring drugs are unwilling to mix - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

If he'd borrow a touch of my pestle and mortar - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

In a fortnight would set East and West in a flame - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

Let me walk a little onward - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Wafted on the pinions of the breeze - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

A thousand starlet glisten in the robe of night - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

A new allotment promised shining heaps of gold - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Turning sods with silver shovel - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Should another exaltation follow on this drear collapse - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

All had drunk the wind of gambling - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Wisdom's warnings were rejected - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Prudence preached to us in vain - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Ghastly chimneys vomit forth their odious mist - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Use the time that's still vouchsafed you - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

That they need not be indebted to your kindness - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Making honest people bankrupt is the way to make them buy - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

To the workhouse let them gather - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Or by theft attain the jail - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Honesty has bread and water - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Crime is fed on beef and ale - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Such as never saint of prophet witnessed - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

All the light of life concentred in the focus of the towns - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

These shall mark your next opponents - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Digging holes within the sand - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

The world never witness'd your rivals in fame - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

The armies of earth at your sight would turn pale - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

A flash from your eyes would light England's last pile - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

For the vengeance of Tara's proud hill - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

That flight may be courage, and fear but a name - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

Powder and shot make men swallow their bile - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

Drink gin o'er the tombstone of Brian Boru - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

In his chair of ease a thorn will grow - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

Thick seeds of sorrow he will sow - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

When Boreas blew through the piping hills - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

Usurping the mace of the Lord - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

Sit as a guest at life's bountiful board - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

On Time's rocking tide I have gallantly oared - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

At rest or afloat on life's far-sounding river - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

Give the pinion of passion free play - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

Again the trumpet blast of war is blown - "Sonnet.--To Denmark" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]

Against the weight of frantic Germany - "Sonnet.--To Denmark" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]

Where winter storms delight to roam - "St Magnus', Kirkwall" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIV, v.LX, Dec. 1846]

Preserved through many a stormy age - "St Magnus', Kirkwall" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIV, v.LX, Dec. 1846]

Time with slow insidious rage destroy - "St Magnus', Kirkwall" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIV, v.LX, Dec. 1846]

Destroy what fiercer foes have spared - "St Magnus', Kirkwall" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIV, v.LX, Dec. 1846]

Had with the Gods again acceptance found - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

To high designs his heart and hands aspire - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

To quicken earthly dust with heavenly fire - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

The first Pandora was not half so bright - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

Whose eager haste the fatal jar to know - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

And Juno's bounty was not yet obtained - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

Then bade the waters of Affliction flow - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

In natural drops her anguish finds relief - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

Loved by him whom Scotland loves - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

I feared nor wind nor weather - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

O'er that dark shades extended - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

My thoughts their wanderings ended - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

His feet ill-starred in ways erroneous wandered - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

For love to earth not granted - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Where fancy twined her wreaths round judgment's stalwart rigor - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Nor less the kindred power he felt - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Passed by the world's half-truths - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

But snatched from heaven Promethean fire - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Faithful to a fame on truth and nature founded - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Himself and Time he trusted - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Each isle had fenced a saint recluse - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Had paid no alien throne submission - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Feudal father had been her Law - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Worked on through storms and troubles - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Her strugglind dawn, convulsed or bright - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Fair field alone the brave demand - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Her will and way had ne'er been crossed - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Conjoins all separate veins of power - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Few words that hour were spoken - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

The rest stern Time effaces - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Together sprung, before the birth of time - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

When creation made its wonders known - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

That their mingling powers might lead and lure us - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

Our perverse condition here below - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

And gives to Evil all its direst charms - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

Truth with harsh Austerity allied - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

Clad in cynic garb of sordid hue - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

With Tyranny's fell tools supplied - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

Girt with Bigotry's besotted crew - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

Lending all her light to gild a lie - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

Lulling us with Siren minstrelsy - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

False repose when peril most is nigh - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

Gulfs remote from happiness or hope - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

Tasted of sweets that never knew alloy - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

In resistless force their lights combine - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

Nor wine nor beer his heart can cheer - "Who Rolled the Powder In?" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXII, Dec. 1850, v.LXVIII]

From earth's deep heart o'ercharged - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Spring Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

Exulting life runs o'er in flowers - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Spring Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

The rose that stirs, but wakes not - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Spring Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

The anemones in dubious light are trembling - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Spring Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

That sinking sun, which sets in blood - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

Since all things here must have an end - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

Fire, which burns on ocean's gloomy bed - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

Writes on low-hung clouds its lines of cyphered flame - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

Who found not rest in hallowed earth - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

Faith, that vanqished fraud and force - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

Affections poisoned at their source - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

So wills the law that willed a lie - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

What spread the waste in circles, hour by hour - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

Make an end of blasphemies and woes - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Winter Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

Descend and clasp the mountain's crest - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Winter Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

From the starry Temple gates Death rides - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Winter Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]

Bids the wrath of ages cease - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Winter Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]


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