Poems

Ernest: The Rule Of Right – Book X BOOK X. Religion, they who deem thee God’s own grace Hallowing Man to holy happiness, Deem thee aright: […]

Ernest: The Rule Of Right – Book XII BOOK XII. Union, if e’er thy name should mean a truth, How happy were the nations in that […]

Ernest: The Rule Of Right – Introduction INTRODUCTION. Poesy, thou wert once the true soul-king– Glowing with godly aims and energies; The spirits’ inmost spirit, wakening […]

Ernest: The Rule Of Right – XI BOOK XI. Earnestness, thou art Man’s true nobleness: I know not whence begotten, nor how born; But thou’rt of […]

I love: and day by day, as absent, pine… Ye, whose aspirings court the Muse of lays “Severest of those orders which belong Distinct and separate […]

Love’s Likeness “Just like love the balmy rose:” For ah their sweets have many a thorn; And tempests chase their early morn; Serenely calm each rarely […]

The Musical Analogies Of The Universe: On Occasion Of The Comet Of 1811 Nature is Music;–and the mystic tale, No fable to the well-attempered ear, Which […]

The Ring Dear, mystic circlet!…. orbs like thine are found Within their hallowd empire to enclose Such unimagin’d joys, such cares and woes, As still in […]

The Sports Of The Field Sports of the field!–deadly or maiming blow Aimed at a gentle bird!–the timid hare From her half slumber in warm brake […]

To Coleridge Thou who hast amply quaff’d the Muse’s rill, And bath’d thy locks in pure poetic dews, Canst thou disparage the Petrarcan Muse; To her […]