Poems

September, 1819 . Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to […]

She Was a Phantom of Delight . She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be […]

Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman . With an incident in which he was concerned In the sweet shire of Cardigan, Not far from pleasant Ivor-hall, An […]

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle… , High in the breathless Hall the Minstrel sate, And Emont’s murmur mingled with the Song.– The words of […]

Stanzas ONCE I could hail (howe’er serene the sky) The Moon re-entering her monthly round, No faculty yet given me to espy The dusky Shape within […]

Stepping Westward “What, you are stepping westward?”–“Yea.” —‘T would be a wildish destiny, If we, who thus together roam In a strange land, and far from […]

Surprised By Joy Surprised by joy-impatient as the Wind I turned to share the transport-Oh! with whom But Thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That […]

The Daffodils I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, […]

The Forsaken The peace which other seek they find; The heaviest storms not longest last; Heaven grants even to the guiltiest mind An amnesty for what […]

The Fountain A Conversation We talked with open heart, and tongue Affectionate and true, A pair of friends, though I was young, And Matthew seventy-two. We […]