Poems

Music’s Empire First was the world as one great cymbal made, Where jarring winds to infant Nature played. All music was a solitary sound, To hollow […]

On A Drop Of Dew See how the Orient Dew, Shed from the Bosom of the Morn Into the blowing Roses, Yet careless of its Mansion […]

On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold, In slender Book his vast Design unfold, Messiah Crown’d, Gods Reconcil’d Decree, Rebelling […]

On The Victory Obtained By Blake Over the Spaniards, In The Now does Spains Fleet her spatious wings unfold, Leaves the new World and hastens for […]

Ros Cernis ut Eio descendat Gemmula Roris, Inque Rosas roseo transfluat orta sinu. Sollicita Flores stant ambitione supini, Et certant foliis pellicuisse suis. Illa tamen patriae […]

Senec. Traged. Ex Thyeste Chor.2 Senec. Traged. ex Thyeste Chor.2. Stet quicunque volet potens Aulae culmine lubrico &c. Climb at Court for me that will Tottering […]

The Character Of Holland Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land, As but th’Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand; And so much Earth as was contributed […]

The Coronet When for the Thorns with which I long, too long, With many a piercing wound, My Saviours head have crown’d, I seek with Garlands […]

The Death of Cromwell A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell’s […]

The Definition Of Love My Love is of a birth as rare As ’tis for object strange and high: It was begotten by despair Upon Impossibility. […]