Who is Sydney Dobell
Sydney Thompson Dobell (5 April 1824 – 22 August 1874) was an English poet and critic, and a member of the so-called Spasmodic school.Biography
Dobell was born at Cranbrook, Kent. His father, John Dobell, was a wine merchant and his mother Julietta was a daughter of Samuel Thompson (1766–1837), a London political reformer. He was an older brother of the surgeon Horace Dobell. The family moved to Cheltenham when Dobell was twelve years old. He was educated privately, and never attended either school or university. He refers to this in some lines on Cheltenham College in imitation of Chaucer, written in his eighteenth year. After a five-year engagement he married, in 1844, Emily Fordham, a lady of good family. Acquaintance with James Stansfeld (subsequently Sir ...
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Sydney Dobell Poems
- The Ballad Of Keith Of Ravelston
The murmur of the mourning ghost
That keeps the shadowy kine,
‘O Keith of Ravelston,
The sorrows of thy line!'... - Return!
Return, return! all night my lamp is burning,
All night, like it, my wide eyes watch and burn;
Like it, I fade and pale, when day returning
Bears witness that the absent can return,... - Laus Deo
In the hall the coffin waits, and the idle armourer stands.
At his belt the coffin nails, and the hammer in his hands.
The bed of state is hung with crape-the grand old bed where she was wed-
And like an upright corpse she sitteth gazing dumbly at the bed.... - A Chanted Calendar
First came the primrose,
On the bank high,
Like a maiden looking forth
From the window of a tower...
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Theblackfemini3: just curious. sydney today. does anyone know what this aec worker is doing with this ballot?Theblackfemini3: so, as it turns out the russians in sydney are not fans of the "nazis" in melbourne.
Rositadaz48: ww1 veterans marching through the streets of sydney during an anzac day march in 1938. the men hold their hats over their hearts at the cenotaph. the old digger on the right as no left arm. anzac day is a national day of remembrance in australia & new zealand that broadly…
Benfordhamlive: as chris bowen talks up his $90k chinese-made electric ute… a popular sydney restaurant is closing because they can’t afford their power bill. they are now paying $36,000 a year for electricity. hear from the devastated owners on today’s podcast:
Philssay: remember the blame game he played nebuliser man furniture removalists fro sydney. families visiting each other. meanwhile he allows injecting room and brothels to remain open .
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