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This is just snippets with no authorial attribution; those from this periodical that have listed authors will be posted under those authors.

Some other snippets in various anonymous posts may come from this publication. There was a point when I wasn't tracking periodical sources as part of the snippet attribution, and I can't easily identify those snippets now.


That falls like music heard in dreams - "The Day of Rest" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.458, 9 Oct. 1852]

That could only be heard in dreams - "A Dream of Death" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.448, 31 July 1852]

On we glided without mast or oars - "A Dream of Death" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.448, 31 July 1852]

Sea-flowers waving slow beneath the surface - "A Dream of Death" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.448, 31 July 1852]

That move in the mysterious deep of human hearts - "A Dream of Death" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.448, 31 July 1852]

The monument on which is writ no name - "A Dream of Death" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.448, 31 July 1852]

Now sleep and fear no storm - "A Dream of Death" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.448, 31 July 1852]

In which perforce a dead hope clothes itself - "A Dream of Resurrection" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.451, 21 Aug. 1852]

Where that known unknown face reposed - "A Dream of Resurrection" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.451, 21 Aug. 1852]

By which the mourner came and stood - "A Dream of Resurrection" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.451, 21 Aug. 1852]

All glittering robes of earthly strife - "A Dream of Resurrection" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.451, 21 Aug. 1852]

Would weave the world in one black shroud - "A Dream of Resurrection" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.451, 21 Aug. 1852]

Round the bright shape we thought was clay - "A Dream of Resurrection" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.451, 21 Aug. 1852]

I'll not win such another dream - "A Mariner's Wife" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no. 427, 6 March 1852]

The salt breeze singing in the sail - "A Mariner's Wife" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no. 427, 6 March 1852]

No boundary to the wave - "A Mariner's Wife" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no. 427, 6 March 1852]

My boat may come no nearer shore - "A Mariner's Wife" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no. 427, 6 March 1852]

Sweeps fierce the foamy rocks among - "A Mariner's Wife" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no. 427, 6 March 1852]

Dull time o'er all that history rolls - "A Mariner's Wife" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no. 427, 6 March 1852]

Sees a fiend-face grin over his shoulder - "The Martyrdom of Faithful in Vanity Fair" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.419, 10 Jan. 1852]

With red hand tears the heart of his neighbour - "The Martyrdom of Faithful in Vanity Fair" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.419, 10 Jan. 1852]

The mad crowd divides, and then closes swift after - "The Martyrdom of Faithful in Vanity Fair" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.419, 10 Jan. 1852]

Though the flame-drifts wave and flutter - "The Martyrdom of Faithful in Vanity Fair" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.419, 10 Jan. 1852]

Though the crowd their curses mutter - "The Martyrdom of Faithful in Vanity Fair" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.419, 10 Jan. 1852]

Thirstier still the roaring flames are glowing - "The Martyrdom of Faithful in Vanity Fair" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.419, 10 Jan. 1852]

Let his poor dust mingle with the embers - "The Martyrdom of Faithful in Vanity Fair" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.419, 10 Jan. 1852]

Outlooking on this silent, ghost-filled room - "Michael the Archangel: A Statuette" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.447, 24 July 1852]

Not made for human sighs, kisses, or smiles - "Michael the Archangel: A Statuette" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.447, 24 July 1852]

Righteous counsel, sweet from seraph tongue - "Michael the Archangel: A Statuette" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.447, 24 July 1852]

Wake up and gleam among the crowd of demons - "Michael the Archangel: A Statuette" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.447, 24 July 1852]

That with eager cries howl in my heart temptations - "Michael the Archangel: A Statuette" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.447, 24 July 1852]

Through the wide deserts of Heaven's chastisement - "Michael the Archangel: A Statuette" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.447, 24 July 1852]

Enter in and fill the howling chambers of hearts desolate - "Michael the Archangel: A Statuette" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.447, 24 July 1852]

Whether shines the mocking sun - "Mountains in Snow" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.422, 31 Jan. 1852]

The new moon's edge just touching that dark rim - "Mountains in Snow" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.422, 31 Jan. 1852]

The bridegroom sky bent loving o'er its earth - "Mountains in Snow" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.422, 31 Jan. 1852]

Your soundless voice, lifted in an awful patience - "Mountains in Snow" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.422, 31 Jan. 1852]

Yet no wrong lies to your charge - "The Rejected Lover" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.430, 27 March 1852]

With youth's dews yet glittering - "The Rejected Lover" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.430, 27 March 1852]

Curse on that fiend's whispering - "The Rejected Lover" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.430, 27 March 1852]

Remember each our youth as but an hour - "The Rejected Lover" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.430, 27 March 1852]

Wild surgings 'gainst the adamant rocks - "Sitting on the Shore" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.426, 28 Feb. 1852]

Both storm and calm alike are ended - "Sitting on the Shore" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.426, 28 Feb. 1852]

Desolation's self is grown serene - "Sitting on the Shore" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.426, 28 Feb. 1852]

To which we look with solemn hope and fond - "Sitting on the Shore" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.426, 28 Feb. 1852]

Goes climbing over the dusky cloud - "A Song [The little white moon goes climbing]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.459, 16 Oct. 1852]

Where walks the moon tonight - "A Song [The little white moon goes climbing]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.459, 16 Oct. 1852]

The little white star stands watching - "A Song [The little white moon goes climbing]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.459, 16 Oct. 1852]

And hid in her light's mid-noon - "A Song [The little white moon goes climbing]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.459, 16 Oct. 1852]

Yet the star follows all heaven through - "A Song [The little white moon goes climbing]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.459, 16 Oct. 1852]

As you'd lift the mystery of a buried sorrow - "Violets: Sent in a Tiny Box" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.445, 10 July 1852]

Fragrant things, all their souls thus giving - "Violets: Sent in a Tiny Box" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.445, 10 July 1852]

That leaps bodiless forth in air - "Violets: Sent in a Tiny Box" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.445, 10 July 1852]

Glad to leave the open sky - "Violets: Sent in a Tiny Box" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.445, 10 July 1852]

And the airs that wandered by - "Violets: Sent in a Tiny Box" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.445, 10 July 1852]

Out of heart-flowers withered - "Violets: Sent in a Tiny Box" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.445, 10 July 1852]

All our gathered flowers to take - "Violets: Sent in a Tiny Box" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.445, 10 July 1852]


Anonymoust snippets from Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, the publication which followed this one..


Wikipedia article about Chambers' Edinburgh Journal.


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