Volume 1

Memoirs of the life of Thomas Beddoes, M.D. with an analytical account of his writings / By John Edmonds Stock.

  • John Edmonds Stock
Date:
1811
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of the life of Thomas Beddoes, M.D. with an analytical account of his writings / By John Edmonds Stock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Here the lorn exile feels her comforts fail. Bleak through the yawning wainscoat drives the wind, ‘The quicken’d sense unsavory fumes assail ;— Her glance declares the housewife’s alien mind. Here still does Avarice count his gains from woe ; The angel Pity drops no holy dews ; My form, devoted to the realms below, Where’er I stray, some baleful eye pursues. The hours no more their wonted tasks beguile, Ills not my own protract the penal day ; | Relentless race, and skill’d in many a wile, The sons of Pan press thew sinking prey. By these condemn’d, like Danaus’ guilty train, Heartless I ply the unavailing toil, Bowl following bow] with loathing lip I drain, The bowl returns—my loathing lips recoil. Mother! soft parent! earliest fost’ring friend ? Kre yet to Fate my youth reluctant yield, O’er these sad hours your tender cares extend, And your faint child from Craft pursuing shield. Ah! what avail yon groves, green Ashton’s boast ? The sea-born spirit of the breezy down? | Theterrac’d lawn, far Cambria’s chequer’d coast ? These crags high-pil’d, proud Clifton’s stately crown ? In vain it smiles—the lucid long expanse, Stretch’d from yon point, where, as the Sea-god’s head, —-Fixing in still delight the charmed glance— Calm sinks the sun in ocean’s flaming bed. ..... Whether led on by Hope’s seductive smiles, From Scotia’s heights ye flock’d, or Erin’s plain, Or from the shores of Slavery’s burning isles Dar’d the long perils.of the pathless main— How have your toils and pious vigils sped? Found you or charm in Bristol’s far-sought cell— Ye hoary mourners o’er the untimely dead !— Sov’reign to save,—or soft assuasive spell ?
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