Poems

Despair I have experienc’d The worst, the World can wreak on me–the worst That can make Life indifferent, yet disturb With whisper’d Discontents the dying prayer– […]

Duty Surviving Self-Love Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt. Yet why at others’ Wanings should’st […]

Epitaph Stop, Christian passer-by : Stop, child of God, And read, with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seem’d he– […]

Fears In Solitude A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O’er stiller place No singing sky-lark ever poised himself. […]

Fragment The body, Eternal Shadow of the finite Soul, The Soul’s self-symbol, its image of itself. Its own yet not itself–

France: An Ode O Liberty ! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour ; But thou nor swell’st the victor’s strain, nor […]

From ‘Religious Musings’ I THERE is one Mind, one omnipresent Mind, Omnific. His most holy name is Love. Truth of subliming import! with the which Who […]

Frost At Midnight The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet’s cry Came loud–and hark, again ! loud as before. The inmates […]

Glycine’s Song A sunny shaft did I behold, From sky to earth it slanted: And poised therein a bird so bold Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted! […]

Hexameters William, my teacher, my friend ! dear William and dear Dorothea ! Smooth out the folds of my letter, and place it on desk or […]