Poems

Pleasure A Short Poem or Else Not Say I True pleasure breathes not city air, Nor in Art’s temples dwells, In palaces and towers where The […]

Preference NOT in scorn do I reprove thee, Not in pride thy vows I waive, But, believe, I could not love thee, Wert thou prince, and […]

Presentiment ” Sister, you’ve sat there all the day, Come to the hearth awhile; The wind so wildly sweeps away, The clouds so darkly pile. That […]

Regret Long ago I wished to leave “The house where I was born;” Long ago I used to grieve, My home seemed so forlorn. In other […]

Speak of the North! A Lonely Moor Speak of the North! A lonely moor Silent and dark and tractless swells, The waves of some wild streamlet […]

Stanzas IF thou be in a lonely place, If one hour’s calm be thine, As Evening bends her placid face O’er this sweet day’s decline; If […]

The Letter What is she writing? Watch her now, How fast her fingers move ! How eagerly her youthful brow Is bent in thought above ! […]

The Missionary Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean’s wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever English ties; Bear me […]

The Teacher’s Monologue THE room is quiet, thoughts alone People its mute tranquillity; The yoke put on, the long task done,­ I am, as it is […]

The Wife’s Will SIT still­a word­a breath may break (As light airs stir a sleeping lake,) The glassy calm that soothes my woes, The sweet, the […]