Poems

Tender Mercies Tender mercies, on my way Falling softly like the dew, Sent me freshly every day, I will bless the Lord for you. Though I […]

To the Superior Animal To sum up all, I’m old — and that’s A fact the years decide; It is a common thing with cats And […]

Elegy Written at the Sea-side I write, HONORA, on the sparkling sand!- The envious waves forbid the trace to stay: HONORA’S name again adorns the strand! […]

Eyam For one short week I leave, with anxious heart, Source of my filial cares, the Full of Days, Lur’d by the promise of Harmonic Art […]

from Llangollen Vale Now with a vestal lustre glows the Vale, Thine, sacred Friendship, permanent as pure; In vain the stern authorities assail, In vain persuasion […]

Sonnet 13 Thou child of Night and Silence, balmy Sleep, Shed thy soft poppies on my aching brow! And charm to rest the thoughts of whence, […]

Sonnet 32 To the Departing Spirit of an Alienated Friend Behold him now his genuine colours wear, That specious false-one, by whose cruel wiles I lost […]

Sonnet 4 And now the youthful, gay, capricious Spring, Piercing her showery clouds with crystal light, And with their hues reflected streaking bright Her radiant bow, […]

He Was Lucky The old man leaves his house, carries books. A German soldier snatches his books flings them in the mud. The old man picks […]

She Does Not Remember She was an evil stepmother. In her old age she is slowly dying in an empty hovel. She shudders like a clutch […]