Poems

On The Death of Princess Charlotte Yes, Britain mourns, as with electric touch, For youth, for love, for happiness destroyed, Her universal population melts In grief […]

On the Expected General Rising of The French Nation, In 1792. Rise, mighty nation, in thy strength, And deal thy dreadful vengeance round; Let thy great […]

On The King’s Illness Rest, rest, afflicted spirit, quickly pass Thine hour of bitter suffering! Rest awaits thee, There, where, the load of weary life laid […]

Ovid To His Wife MY aged head now stoops its honours low, Bow’d with the load of fifty winters’ snow; And for the raven’s glossy black […]

Pastoral Hymn “Gentle pilgrim, tell me why Dost thou fold thine arms and sigh, And wistful cast thine eyes around?— Whither, pilgrim, art thou bound?” “The […]

Peace and Shepherd Low in a deep sequestered vale, Whence Alpine heights ascend, A beauteous nymph, in pilgrim garb, Is seen her steps to bend. Her […]

Pious Friendship How blest the sacred tie that binds In union sweet according minds! How swift the heavenly course they run, Whose hearts, whose faith, whose […]

Praise To God Praise to God, immortal praise, For the love that crowns our days; Bounteous source of every joy, Let thy praise our tongues employ; […]

Prologue To A Drama PERFORMED BY A FAMILY PARTY ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MR. AND MRS. C.’S MARRIAGE “To wake the soul by tender strokes of […]

Riddle From rosy bowers we issue forth, From east to west, from south to north, Unseen, unfelt, by night, by day, Abroad we take our airy […]