Poems

To Mont Blanc. Blanc! shall we say yon sun to thee comes down; Or goest thou up to him, formed to aspire To his red orb […]

To The Memory Of A City Pastor His soul was truth severe: The shafts of day Strike through the vague delusions of the night; So, arrowy […]

Wash The Feet Of Poor Old Age Thou, the King of kingdoms great, Thou, the Consort of his state, Ye have eaten Heavenly food, Jesus’ body, […]

Between Two Loves I GOTTA lov’ for Angela, I lov’ Carlotta, too. I no can marry both o’ dem, So w’at I gona do? O! Angela […]

Mia Carlotta GIUSEPPE, da barber, ees greata for “mash,” He gotta da bigga, da blacka mustache, Good clo’es an’ good styla an’ playnta good cash. W’enevra […]

A Radical War Song Awake, arise, the hour is come, For rows and revolutions; There’s no receipt like pike and drum For crazy constitutions. Close, close […]

An Election Ballad As I sate down to breakfast in state, At my living of Tithing-cum-Boring, With Betty beside me to wait, Came a rap that […]

Dies Irae On that great, that awful day, This vain world shall pass away. Thus the sibyl sang of old, Thus hath holy David told. There […]

Epitaph on a Jacobite To my true king I offered free from stain Courage and faith; vain faith, and courage vain. For him, I threw lands, […]

Epitaph on Henry Martyn Here Martyn lies. In Manhood’s early bloom The Christian Hero finds a Pagan tomb. Religion, sorrowing o’er her favourite son, Points to […]