Poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Song on the Water

As mad sexton's bell, tolling
For earth's loveliest daughter
Night's dumbness breaks rolling
Ghostily:
So our boat breaks the water
Witchingly.

As her look the dream troubles
Of her tearful-eyed lover,
So our sails in the bubbles
Ghostily
Are mirrored, and hover
Moonily.

1. The Rosy Hour
2. Song from the Waters
3. Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the ‘Prometheus Unbound’
4. The Old Ghost
5. To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty

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