Potential Titles: James Thomson

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Why evoke the spectres of black night - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

To blot the sunshine of exultant years - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Break the seals of mute despair unbidden - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

The bitter old and wrinkled truth - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Because it gives some sense of power and passion - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Those who deem their happiness of worth - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Whose faith and hopes are dead - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Travels the same wild paths though out of sight - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

To any who divined it not before - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

The lucid morning's fragrant breath - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Life is but a dream whose shapes return - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Great ruins of an unremembered past - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Are found within its precincts vast - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Amidst the soundless solitudes immense - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

One mourner to a thousand dead - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

The rich dark clusters of the Vine of Death - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Erase the signs and figures of the circling hours - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Where scarce a sunbeam wanders through - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

And sing the glories of the circling year - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

Amid the flux of many thousand years - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

The doubtful empire of the night - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

As with a chain indissoluble bound - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

A trembling variance of revolving hues - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

Projecting horror on the blacken'd flood - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]


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