Poems

The Pleasures of Hope (excerpt) PART I (excerpt) … Where barbarous hordes on Scythian mountains roam, Truth, Mercy, Freedom, yet shall find a home; Where’er degraded […]

The River of Life The more we live, more brief appear Our life’s succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing […]

Ye Mariners of England Ye Mariners of England That guard our native seas, Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze– Your […]

A Hymn in Praise of Neptune OF Neptune’s empire let us sing, At whose command the waves obey; To whom the rivers tribute pay, Down the […]

Amaryllis I care not for these ladies that must be wooed and prayed; Give me kind Amaryllis, the wanton country maid. Nature Art disdaineth; her beauty […]

Cherry-Ripe THERE is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies blow; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow: […]

Corinna When to her lute Corinna sings, Her voice revives the leaden strings, And doth in highest notes appear As any challenged echo clear. But when […]

Follow Thy Fair Sun Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow; Though thou be black as night, And she made all of light, Yet follow thy fair […]

Follow Your Saint Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet. There, wrapp’d in cloud of sorrow, pity […]

Integer Vitae THE man of life upright, Whose guiltless heart is free From all dishonest deeds, Or thought of vanity; The man whose silent days In […]