Poems

Sonnet – to the Lilly Soft silken flow’r! that in the dewy vale Unfolds thy modest beauties to the morn, And breath’st thy fragrance on her […]

Sonnet~ Still is the night breeze!–not a lonely sound Steals through the silence of this dreary hour; O’er these high battlements Sleep reigns profound, And sheds […]

Superstition – An Ode High mid Alverna’s awful steeps, Eternal shades, and silence dwell, Save, when the gale resounding sweeps, Sad straings are faintly heard to […]

To the visions of fancy Dear, wild illusions of creative mind! Whose varying hues arise to Fancy’s art, And by her magic force are swift combin’d […]

When first the vernal morn of life When first the vernal morn of life, Beam’d on my infant eye, Fond I survey’d the smiling scene, Nor […]

A True Story Little Ann and her mother were walking one day Through London’s wide city so fair, And business obliged them to go by the […]

About the Little Girl that Beat Her Sister Go, go, my naughty girl, and kiss Your little sister dear; I must not have such things as […]

Deaf Martha Poor Martha is old, and her hair is turn’d grey, And her hearing has left her for many a year; Ten to one if […]

For a Naughty Little Girl My sweet little girl should be cheerful and mild She must not be fretful and cry! Oh! why is this passion? […]

Jane and Eliza There were two little girls, neither handsome nor plain; One’s name was Eliza, the other’s was Jane: They were both of one height, […]