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Timluctoo (1829).

"I have raised thee nigher to the spheres of heaven,
Man's first, last home: and thou with ravish'd sense^[1]
Listenest the lordly music flowing from
Th' illimitable years."

 

Ode to Memory.^[2]

"Sure she was nigher to heaven's spheres,
Listening the lordly music flowing from
Th' illimitable years."

 

The poem of "Timbuctoo" was noticed as follows in the "Athenæum" of July 22, 1829:

"We have accustomed ourselves to think, perhaps without any very good reason, that poetry was likely to perish among us for a considerable period after the great generation of poets which is now passing away. The age seems determined to contradict us, and that in the most decided manner; for it has put forth poetry by a young man, and that where we should least expect it—namely, in a prize

1. This is misprinted "lavish'd sense" in all editions subsequent to the first.
2. "Poems, chiefly Lyrical" (1830), p. 60.