To Number 27X.

    Beloved Peeler! friend and guide
            And guard of many a midnight reeler,
    None worthier, though the world is wide,
                Beloved Peeler.

    Thou from before the swift four-wheeler
            Didst pluck me, and didst thrust aside
    A strongly built provision-dealer

    Who menaced me with blows, and cried
            'Come on! come on!'    O Paian, Healer,
    Then but for thee I must have died,
                Beloved Peeler!

Robert Fuller Murray

Robert Fuller Murray was a Scottish poet known for his lyrical and expressive poetry. Born on December 26, 1863, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, he moved to Scotland at a young age. Despite a short life, ending on April 15, 1894, Murray left a significant mark with his works, which often reflected themes of nature and human emotion. His poetry is characterized by its elegance and depth of feeling. Murray's influence remained through posthumous publications and collections of his poetry.

Robert Fuller Murray

Greek Title

Robert Fuller Murray, Simple Poetry

The Waster Singing At Midnight. After Longfellow.

Robert Fuller Murray, Simple Poetry

Lost At Sea

Robert Fuller Murray, Simple Poetry

An Afterthought

Robert Fuller Murray, Simple Poetry

English

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The daylight vanished,
No rosy traces
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Of forms and faces
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Through swift transitions,
In new positions,
My eyes still follow
    One shape most fair.
My heart delaying
Awhile, is playing
With pleasures hollow,
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I long once only
To pass an hour
    With you, O sweet!
To touch your fingers,
Where fragrance lingers
From some rare flower,
    And kiss your feet.

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To me is given.
Of all sad mortals
    Most sad am I,
Never to meet you,
Never to greet you,
Nor pass your portals
    Before I die.

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On An Edinburgh Advocate

In youth with diligence he toiled
    A Roman nose to gain,
But though a decent pug was spoiled,
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Poem On Life, Addressed To Colonel De Peyster. Dumfries, 1796.

    My honoured colonel, deep I feel
    Your interest in the Poet's weal;
    Ah! now sma' heart hae I to speel
        The steep Parnassus,
    Surrounded thus by bolus, pill,
        And potion glasses.

    O what a canty warld were it,
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    Dame Life, tho' fiction out may trick her,
    And in paste gems and frippery deck her;
    Oh! flickering, feeble, and unsicker
        I've found her still,
    Ay wavering like the willow-wicker,
        'Tween good and ill.

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