Poems

Young and Old When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a […]

A Ballad NOTING THE DIFFERENCE OF RICH AND POOR, IN THE WAYS OF A RICH NOBLE’S PALACE AND A POOR WORKHOUSE. In a costly palace Youth […]

A Dramatic Fragment “Fie upon’t! All men are false, I think. The date of love Is out, expired, its stories all grown stale, O’erpast, forgotten, like […]

A Farewell To Tobacco May the Babylonish curse Straight confound my stammering verse, If I can a passage see In this word-perplexity, Or a fit expression […]

A little boy with crumbs of bread A bird appears a thoughtless thing, He’s ever living on the wing, And keeps up such a carolling, That […]

A Parody Lazy-bones, lazy-bones, wake up and peep; The Cat’s in the cupboard, your Mother’s asleep. There you sit snoring, forgetting her ills: Who is to […]

A timid grace sits trembling in her eye A timid grace sits trembling in her eye, As loath to meet the rudeness of men’s sight, Yet […]

A Vision Of Repentance I saw a famous fountain, in my dream, Where shady path-ways to a valley led; A weeping willow lay upon that stream, […]

Anger Anger in its time and place May assume a kind of grace. It must have some reason in it, And not last beyond a minute. […]

Beauty And The Beast A Merchant, who by generous pains Prospered in honourable gains, Could boast, his wealth and fame to share, Three manly Sons, three […]