Poems

On the Approach of Autumn Farewell gay Summer! now the changing wind That Autumn brings commands thee to retreat; It fades the roses which thy temples […]

On the Place de la Concorde [Originally called the Place de Louis Seize,–next the Place de la Revolution, where the perpetual guillotine stood.] Proud Seine, along […]

Remembrance How dear to me the twilight hour! It breathes, it speaks of pleasures past; When Laura sought this humble bower, And o’er it courtly splendours […]

Secret Love Not one kind look….one friendly word! Wilt thou in chilling silence sit; Nor through the social hour afford One cheering smile, or beam of […]

Song I am wearing away like the snow in the sun, I am wearing away from the pain in my heart; But ne’er shall he know, […]

Song Written to a Hindoo Air Ask not, whence springs my ceaseless sadness, But let me still the secret keep: Ask not, why thus in restless […]

Song: Yes, Mary Ann, I Freely Grant Yes, Mary Ann, I freely grant, The charms of Henry’s eyes I see; But while I gaze, I something […]

Songs Written to Welsh Airs How fondly I gaze on the fast falling-leaves, That mark, as I wander, the summer’s decline; And then I exclaim, while […]

Stanzas to Cynthio As o’er the sands the youthful Cynthio strayed, Moist from the wave he saw a pebble shine, While, with its borrowed lustre charmed, […]

The Lucayan’s Song Hail, lonely shore! hail, desert cave! To you, o’erjoyed, from men I fly, And here I’ll make my early grave…. For what can […]