Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a nineteenth-century English poet, historian and Whig politician and Member of Parliament for Edinburgh. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. The son of Zachary Macaulay, a Scottish Highlander who became a colonial governor and abolitionist, Thomas was born in Leicestershire, England, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Macaulay was noted as a child prodigy. As a toddler, gazing out the window from his cot at the chimneys of a local factory, he is reputed to have put the question to his mother: "Does the smoke from those chimneys come from the fires of hell?" Whilst at Cambridge he wrote much poetry and won several prizes. In 1825 he published a prominent essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review. In 1826 he was called to the bar but showed more interest in a political than a legal career.
the house on the hill
They are all gone away,
The house is shut and still,
There is nothing more to say.
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luke havergal
Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal,
There where the vines cling crimson on the wall,
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the mill
The miller's wife had waited long,
The tea was cold, the fire was dead;
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The tea was cold, the fire was dead;
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the gift of god -
Blessed with a joy that only she
Of all alive shall ever know,
She wears a proud humility...[read poem]
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Of all alive shall ever know,
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richard cory
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a ge...[read poem]
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We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a ge...
walt whitman
The master-songs are ended, and the man
That sang them is a name. And so is God
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That sang them is a name. And so is God
A name; an...
miniver cheevy
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the seasons
He wept that he...[read poem]
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Grew lean while he assailed the seasons
He wept that he...
aaron stark
Withal a meagre man was Aaron Stark, --
Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose....[read poem]
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Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose....
dies irae
On that great, that awful day,
This vain world shall pass away.
Thus the sibyl sang of old...[read poem]
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This vain world shall pass away.
Thus the sibyl sang of old...
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