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84 The imagination of Southey is marked by similar traits; there is no flash, no scintillation about it, but a steady light as of day itself. As specimens of his best manner, I would mention the last stage of Thalaba’s journey to the Domdaniel Caves, and, in the “Curse of Kehama,” the sea-palace of Baly, “The Glendoveer,” and “The Ship of Heaven.” As Southey’s poems are not very generally read, I will extract the two latter:

Southey professes to have borrowed the description of the Glendoveer from an old and forgotten book. He has given the prose