Poems

Motes In The Sunbeams The motes up and down in the sun Ever restlessly moving we see; Whereas the great mountains stand still, Unless terrible earthquakes […]

My Birthday A dozen years since in this house what commotion, What bustle, what stir, and what joyful ado; Every soul in the family at my […]

Neatness In Apparel In your garb and outward clothing A reservëd plainness use; By their neatness more distinguished Than the brightness of their hues. All the […]

Nurse Green “Your prayers you have said, and you’ve wished good night: What cause is there yet keeps my darling awake? This throb in your bosom […]

Nursing O hush, my little baby brother; Sleep, my love, upon my knee. What though, dear child, we’ve lost our mother; That can never trouble thee. […]

On A Late Impiric Of Balmy Memory His namesake, born of Jewish breeder, Knew “from the Hyssop to the Cedar;” But he, unlike the Jewish leader, […]

On A Picture Of The Finding Of Moses By Pharoah’s Daughter This picture does the story express Of Moses in the bulrushes. How livelily the painter’s […]

On A Projected Journey To gratify his people’s wish See G—e at length prepare– He’s setting out for Hanover– We’ve often wish’d him there.

On An Infant Dying As Soon As Born I SAW where in the shroud did lurk A curious frame of Nature’s work; A floweret crush’d in […]

On Being Asked To Write In Miss Westwood’s Album My feeble Muse, that fain her best would Write, at command of Frances Westwood, But feels her […]