Poems

The Penitent I mourn with thee, and yet rejoice That thou shouldst sorrow so; With angel choirs I join my voice To bless the sinner’s woe. […]

The Student’s Serenade I have slept upon my couch, But my spirit did not rest, For the labours of the day Yet my weary soul opprest; […]

The Three Guides Spirit of Earth! thy hand is chill: I’ve felt its icy clasp; And, shuddering, I remember still That stony-hearted grasp. Thine eye bids […]

To Cowper Sweet are thy strains, celestial Bard; And oft, in childhood’s years, I’ve read them o’er and o’er again, With floods of silent tears. The […]

Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas In all we do, and hear, and see, Is restless Toil and Vanity. While yet the rolling earth abides, Men come and […]

Views Of Life When sinks my heart in hopeless gloom, And life can show no joy for me; And I behold a yawning tomb, Where bowers […]

A Winter Daybreak From the dark gorge, where burns the morning star, I hear the glacier river rattling on And sweeping o’er his ice-ploughed shingle-bar, While […]

Fairyland Do you remember that careless band, Riding o’er meadow and wet sea-sand, One autumn day, in a mist of sunshine, Joyously seeking for fairyland? The […]

The Lark’s Song The morning is wild and dark, The night mist runs on the vale, Bright Lucifer dies to a spark, And the wind whistles […]

Travel Song ‘COME, before the summer passes Let us seek the mountain land:’ So they called me, happy playmates, And we left the dawn-lit strand: Riding […]