Poems

A Duet ‘FLOWERS nodding gaily, scent in air, Flowers posied, flowers for the hair, Sleepy flowers, flowers bold to stare—-‘ ‘O pick me some!’ ‘Shells with […]

A Sicilian Idyll (First Scene) Damon I thank thee, no; Already have I drunk a bowl of wine . . . Nay, nay, why wouldst thou […]

Aforetime To Gordon Bottomley Dear exile from the hurrying crowd, At work I muse to you aloud; Thought on my anvil softens, glows, And I forget […]

The Rower’s Chant ROW till the land dip ‘neath The sea from view. Row till a land peep up, A home for you. Row till the […]

Kensington Garden Where Kensington, high o’er the neighbouring lands Midst greens and sweets, a regal fabric, stands, And sees each spring, luxuriant in her bowers, A […]

On the Prospect of Peace To the Lord Privy Seal Contending kings, and fields of death, too long Have been the subject of the British song. […]

To a Lady Before Marriage Oh! form’d by Nature, and refin’d by Art, With charms to win, and sense to fix the heart! By thousands sought, […]

To Mr. Addison on His Opera of Rosamond __ Ne fortè pudori Sit tibi Musa lyræ solers, & cantor Apollo. The Opera first Italian masters taught, […]

To Mr. Addison on His Tragedy of Cato Too long hath love engross’d Britannia’s stage, And sunk to softness all our tragic rage: By that alone […]

To the Earl of Warwick, On the Death of Mr. Addison If, dumb too long, the drooping Muse hath stay’d, And left her debt to Addison […]