English Romantic Poet

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“Fight on for Scottland and Saint Andrew
Till you heare my whistle blowe.”
—Unknown. Sir Andrew Barton.

EnSB. English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)

“My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“It is an odd jealousy: but the poet finds himself not near enough to his object. The pine-tree, the river, the bank of flowers before him, does not seem to be nature. Nature is still elsewhere.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)