Songs In The Masque Of Alfred: To Peace

James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)



O Peace! the fairest child of heaven,
To whom the sylvan reign was given,
The vale, the fountain, and the grove,
With every softer scene of love:
Return, sweet Peace! and cheer the weeping swain!
Return, with Ease and Pleasure in thy train.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme AABCDD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 243
Words 45
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6

James Thomson

James Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night, an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. more…

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