Poems

Youth and the Pilgrim Gray pilgrim, you have journeyed far, I pray you tell to me Is there a land where Love is not, By shore […]

A Summer Recollection ‘Tis pleasant—when the nights are long And days are drear and chill, And hail and sleet are driving fast In downward desperate will, […]

Hymn He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, Alike they’re needful for the flower: And joys and tears alike are sent To give the soul fit nourishment. […]

Nearer, My God, To Thee Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E’en though it be a cross That raiseth me: Still all my song […]

O Love! Thou Makest All Things Even O Love! thou makest all things even In earth or heaven; Finding thy way through prison-bars Up to the […]

Part In Peace: Is Day Before Us? Part in peace: is day before us? Praise His Name for life and light; Are the shadows lengthening o’er […]

To My Sister Were it not so, I dared not give to thee These pages; for I know full well they ne’er Can reach the need […]

The Emulation Say, Tyrant Custom, why must we obey The impositions of thy haughty Sway; From the first dawn of Life, unto the Grave, Poor Womankind’s […]

The Repulse to Alcander What is’t you mean, that I am thus approach’d, Dare you to hope, that I may be debauch’d? For your seducing Words […]

To Philaster Go perjur’d Youth and court what Nymph you please, Your Passion now is but a dull disease; With worn-out Sighs deceive some list’ning Ear, […]