Poems

October, 1803 . These times strike monied worldlings with dismay: Even rich men, brave by nature, taint the air With words of apprehension and despair: While […]

Ode Composed On A May Morning WHILE from the purpling east departs The star that led the dawn, Blithe Flora from her couch upstarts, For May […]

Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound […]

Ode to Duty . Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod […]

Ode: Intimations of Immortality I There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in […]

Of a Forsaken Indian Woman Before I see another day, Oh let my body die away! In sleep I heard the northern gleams; The stars, they […]

On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford . A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun’s pathetic light Engendered, […]

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic . Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth […]

Resolution and Independence . There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now the sun is […]

Scorn not the Sonnet . Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the […]