Poems

Lucy poems pt2 (I Travelled among Unknown Men) I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England! did I know till then What […]

Lucy poems pt3 (Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower,) Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, “A lovelier flower On […]

Memory A pen–to register; a key– That winds through secret wards Are well assigned to Memory By allegoric Bards. As aptly, also, might be given A […]

Michael: A Pastoral Poem . If from the public way you turn your steps Up the tumultuous brook of Green-head Ghyll, You will suppose that with […]

Most Sweet it is . Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes To pace the ground, if path be there or none, While a fair region […]

Mutability . From low to high doth dissolution climb, And sink from high to low, along a scale Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail; […]

November, 1806 . Another year!–another deadly blow! Another mighty Empire overthrown! And We are left, or shall be left, alone; The last that dare to struggle […]

Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells; And students with […]

Nutting . –It seems a day (I speak of one from many singled out) One of those heavenly days that cannot die; When, in the eagerness […]

O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art O Nightingale! thou surely art A creature of a “fiery heart”:– These notes of thine–they pierce and pierce; Tumultuous harmony and […]