Poems

Fragment As the poor schoolboy, when the slow-paced months Have brought vacation times, and one by one His playmates and companions all are fled Or ready; […]

Hymn To Content O Thou, the Nymph with placid eye! O seldom found, yet ever nigh! Receive my temperate vow: Not all the storms that shake […]

Hymn: Ye Are The Salt of The Earth Salt of the earth, ye virtuous few, Who season human-kind; Light of the world, whose cheering ray Illumes […]

In the Manner of Spenser So long estranged from every Muse’s lyre, And groveling in the tangled net of Care; What powerful breath shall kindle up […]

Inscription For An Ice-House Stranger, approach! within this iron door Thrice locked and bolted, this rude arch beneath That vaults with ponderous stone the cell; confined […]

Jehovah Reigns Jehovah reigns: let every nation hear, And at his footstool bow with holy fear; Let heaven’s high arches echo with his name, And the […]

Joy To The Followers of The Lord Joy to the followers of the Lord! Thus saith the sure the eternal word. Not of earth the joy […]

Life Animula, vagula, blandula. Life! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part; And when, or how, or where we […]

Life! I know not what thou art LIFE! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part; And when, or how, […]

Lines WRITTEN IN A YOUNG LADY’S ALBUM OF DIFFERENT-COLOURED PAPER Life’s chequered scenes these varied leaves display, Pure white, and tenderest blush, and fading gray:— The […]