Poems

The French Revolution as it appeared to Enthusiasts . Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy! For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood Upon our […]

The Green Linnet BENEATH these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring’s unclouded weather, In […]

The Idle Shepherd Boys The valley rings with mirth and joy; Among the hills the echoes play A never never ending song, To welcome in the […]

The Kitten And Falling Leaves THAT way look, my Infant, lo! What a pretty baby-show! See the kitten on the wall, Sporting with the leaves that […]

The Longest Day Let us quit the leafy arbor, And the torrent murmuring by; For the sun is in his harbor, Weary of the open sky. […]

The Mother’s Return A MONTH, sweet Little-ones, is past Since your dear Mother went away,— And she tomorrow will return; Tomorrow is the happy day. O […]

The Old Cumberland Beggar . I saw an aged Beggar in my walk; And he was seated, by the highway side, On a low structure of […]

The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing The power of Armies is a visible thing, Formal and circumscribed in time and space; But who the […]

The Prelude, Book 1: Childhood and School-time –Was it for this That one, the fairest of all Rivers, lov’d To blend his murmurs with my Nurse’s […]

The Prelude, Book 2: School-time (Continued) . Thus far, O Friend! have we, though leaving much Unvisited, endeavour’d to retrace My life through its first years, […]