Poems

Upon The Hill And Grove At Bill-borow To the Lord Fairfax. See how the arched Earth does here Rise in a perfect Hemisphere! The stiffest Compass […]

Young Love Come little Infant, Love me now, While thine unsuspected years Clear thine aged Fathers brow From cold Jealousie and Fears. Pretty surely ’twere to […]

There Is A Happy Land There is a happy land, far, far away, Where saints in glory stand, bright, bright as day. Oh, how they sweetly […]

Air Now, at Moonlight’s fairy hour, When faintly gleams each dewy steep, And vale and Mountain, lake and bow’r, In solitary grandeur sleep; When slowly sinks […]

Evening Evening veil’d in dewy shades, Slowly sinks upon the main; See th’ empurpled glory fades, Beneath her sober, chasten’d reign. Around her car the pensive […]

Morning Darkness! thro thy chilling glooms, Weakly trembles twilight grey; Twilight fades–and Morning comes, And melts thy shadows swift away! She comes in her Aetherial car, […]

Night Now Ev’ning fades! her pensive step retires, And Night leads on the dews, and shadowy hours: Her awful pomp of planetary fires, And all her […]

Song Pur the rich libation high; The sparkling cup to Bacchus fill; His joys shall dance in ev’ry eye, And chase the forms of future ill! […]

Song~ Life’s a varied, bright illusion, Joy and sorrow—light and shade; Turn from sorrow’s dark suffusion, Catch the pleasures ere they fade. Fancy paints with hues […]

Sonnet Hail! to the hallow’d hill, the circling lawn. The breezy upland, and the mountain stream! The last tall pine that earliest meets the dawn, And […]