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PROCTOR (Bryan Waller). “ Barry Cornwall. '.' Author of the “ Flood of Thes-

saly," “ Charles Lamb, :1 Memoir," etc.

Bryan Waller Procter.—Born in London 1787; died the

 

there 1874.~An English poet and author.—He was a

school~mate of Byron and Sir Robert Peel.~In 1820

he began writing under the feeudonym of Barry

Cornwall,and in 1851 was called to the bar.— He
wrote "Dramatic Scenes and Other Poems"(1819),"A
Sicilian Story"(1820),"Flood of Thessaly"(1825).—
His "Mirandola” was performed at Covent Garden in
1821 with success.—His songs have obtained much

popularity.—

 

 

  

 

POEMS WOR TH READING
i ' . No; 108.‘ I
-_ THESEA

“Barry Cornwall,”

Bryan “filler Proctor, familiarly known as ‘iBarry Cornwall,” was;
born at London, November 21, 1787, and died there, October 4, 1874:. H _
He was educated at Harvard, and was :1 Schoolnmte of. Byron and Sir ‘ '
Robert’Peel. 1111807 he went to London to study low. In oil-820V he .
began writing under the pseudonym “Barry Cornwall,” and in ‘1831
was called to the bar. From 1832 to 1861 he, was commissioner of -
lunacy. He wrote “Dramatic Scenes and Other Poems” (1819); “5.1;,-
Sicilian Story” (1820); i‘l‘Mirandola” (1821); “Flood of YThessaly”
(1823); “Efiiigics Poetics.” (1824): “English Songs” (1832),.a11d memoirs -
of Kenn, Lamb, Ben Johnson and Shakespeare. H

 

HE sea! the sea! the open seal' .
The blue, the fresh, the ever free! '
‘ W'ithout a mark,-without a bound,
It runneth the earth’s wide regions round, 7
It~plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;
Or like a, cradled creature lies.‘

I’m on' the sea! I’m on the‘sea; ‘

I am where I'would ever be;

’With the blue above, and the .blue below,
And silence Wheresoe’er I go; _
It'a storm should come, and awa‘kethe'deep,
-What matter? I shull'ric’le end sleep.

I love (oh! how I love) to ride

0n the fierce, foaming, bursting

. tide, “

‘When every mad iwave

moon, '

’Or.whistles aloft histempest tune,

And tells how goeth , the .world

below,

And 'why the southwest blasts do

, blow.

drowns the

I never was on-the dull tame shore.»
_But I loved the great sea. more and
~ " more, ,
And
breast,
Like a bird
nest; . ’ ‘
And a mother shown; and is to
me

V J ‘ ., ..
For I was born on the open sea‘.‘

 

 

backward flew to her' billowy.

that seeketh its mother’s

This sefi—e-s-ot‘poems began under the head of, “Old
M’cdnesday, October 30, 1901. One is printed every day.

The waves were white and red'th'e '
morn, , , ,

In the noisy hourvwhen IWaS-born; ‘ .

And the whale it whistled, the por-
poise rolled, ' ‘ ’

And the dolphins
/gold;" ‘

And never was

‘ wild . 1

As welcome to life the ocean childl,

bar-ed their baolés of ,.

heard such an outcrj

I’ve lived since then, in calm-“and“ ‘
strife, ' " "

Full fifty Summers a sailor’s life,

With Wealth to spend i'a'nd a power to '
range,

But neverhave sought nor sighed for j" V
, change; I '

And~Death, Whenever he .come to 'me,

V Shall come on the wild unbounded
’ '~ sea! — -- ’

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