Poems

Delia, An Elegy YES, DELIA loves! My fondest vows are blest; Farewel the memory of her past disdain; One kind relenting glance has heal’d my breast, […]

Dirge Pure spirit! O where art thou now! O whisper to my soul! O let some soothing thought of thee, The bitter grief control! ‘Tis not […]

Eighteen Hundred And Eleven Still the loud death drum, thundering from afar, O’er the vext nations pours the storm of war: To the stern call still […]

Enigma TO THE LADIES Hard is my stem and dry, no root is found To draw nutritious juices from the ground; Yet of your ivory fingers’ […]

Epistle To Dr. Enfield ON HIS REVISITING WARRINGTON IN 1789 Friend of those years which from Youth’s sparkling fount With silent lapse down Time’s swift gulf […]

Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. ON THE REJECTION OF THE BILL FOR ABOLISHING THE SLAVE TRADE, 1791. Cease, Wilberforce, to urge thy generous aim! Thy Country […]

Epitaph On The Same Farewell, mild saint!—meek child of love, farewell! Ill can this stone thy finished virtues tell. Rest, rest in peace! the task of […]

Epithalamium Virgin, brighter than the morning, Haste and finish thy adorning! Hymen claims his promised day,— Come from thy chamber, come away! Roses strew, and myrtles […]

Eternity —— The year has run Its round of seasons, has fulfilled its course, Absolved its destined period, and is borne, Silent and swift, to that […]

For Easter Sunday Again the Lord of life and light Awakes the kindling ray; Unseals the eyelids of the morn, And pours increasing day. O what […]