Poems

Fluctuations What though the Sun had left my sky; To save me from despair The blessed Moon arose on high, And shone serenely there. I watched […]

Home How brightly glistening in the sun The woodland ivy plays! While yonder beeches from their barks Reflect his silver rays. That sun surveys a lovely […]

If This Be All O God! if this indeed be all That Life can show to me; If on my aching brow may fall No freshening […]

In Memory Of A Happy Day In February Blessed be Thou for all the joy My soul has felt to-day! Oh, let its memory stay with […]

Lines composed in a Wood on a Windy Day My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; […]

Lines Written From Home Though bleak these woods, and damp the ground, With fallen leaves so thickly strewn, And cold the wind that wanders round With […]

Memory Brightly the sun of summer shone, Green fields and waving woods upon, And soft winds wandered by; Above, a sky of purest blue, Around, bright […]

Music On Christmas Morning Music I love–but never strain Could kindle raptures so divine, So grief assuage, so conquer pain, And rouse this pensive heart of […]

My Soul is Awakened My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring, And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; For, above, and around me, […]

Night I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sight What may not bless my waking eyes. […]