Book: Poems

• Ode to the Muse

  O, let me seize thy pen sublime
  That paints, in melting dulcet rhyme,

  134 lines
• Ode to Reflection

  O THOU, whose sober precepts can controul
  The wild impatience of the troubled soul,

  48 lines
• Ode to Envy

  Deep in th' abyss where frantic horror bides,
  In thickest mists of vapours fell,

  82 lines
• Ode to Health

  Come, bright-eyed maid,
  Pure offspring of the tranquil mind,

  96 lines
• Ode to Vanity

  INSATIATE TYRANT OF THE MIND;
  Fantastic, aëry, empty thing;

  92 lines
• Ode to Melancholy

  SORC'RESS of the Cave profound!
  Hence, with thy pale, and meagre train,

  62 lines
• Ode to Despair

  TERRIFIC FIEND! thou Monster fell,
  Condemn'd in haunts profane to dwell,

  118 lines
• Ode to the Nightingale

  SWEET BIRD OF SORROW! ­why complain
  In such soft melody of Song,

  77 lines
• Second Ode to the Nightingale

  BLEST be thy song, sweet NIGHTINGALE,
  Lorn minstrel of the lonely vale !

  134 lines
• Ode on Adversity

  WHERE o'er my head, the deaf'ning Tempest blew,
  And Night's cold lamp cast forth a feeble ray;

  54 lines
• Ode to Beauty

  EXULTING BEAUTY,­phantom of an hour,
  Whose magic spells enchain the heart,

  64 lines
• Ode to Eloquence

  HAIL! GODDESS of persuasive art!
  The magic of whose tuneful tongue

  62 lines
• Ode to the Moon

  PALE GODDESS of the witching hour;
  Blest Contemplation's placid friend;

  64 lines
• Ode to Meditation

  SWEET CHILD OF REASON! maid serene;
  With folded arms, and pensive mien,

  106 lines
• Ode to Della Crusca

  ENLIGHTEN'D Patron of the sacred Lyre?
  Whose ever-varying, ever-witching song

  78 lines
• Ode to Valour

  [Inscribed to Colonel Banastre Tarleton]
  

  101 lines
• Lines to Him Who Will Understand Them

  THOU art no more my bosom's FRIEND;
  Here must the sweet delusion end,

  84 lines
• Elegy on the Death of Lady Middleton

  THE knell of death, that on the twilight gale,
  Swells its deep murmur to the pensive ear;

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• Elegy to the Memory of Richard Boyle, Esq.

  NEAR yon bleak mountain's dizzy height,
  That hangs o'er AVON's silent wave;

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• Elegy to the Memory of David Garrick, Esq.

  DEAR SHADE OF HIM, who grac'd the mimick scene,
  And charm'd attention with resistless pow'r;

  64 lines
• Monody to the Memory of Chatterton

  Chill penury repress'd his noble rage,
  And froze the genial current of his soul.

  107 lines
• Elegy to the Memory of Werter

  "With female Fairies will thy tomb be haunted
  "And worms will not come to thee." SHAKSPERE.

  38 lines
• Cupid Sleeping

  [Inscribed to Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire.]
  

  45 lines
• To Simplicity

  [Inscribed to Lady Duncannon.]
  

  41 lines
• Absence

  WHEN from the craggy mountain's pathless steep,
  Whose flinty brow hangs o'er the raging sea,

  48 lines
• The Faded Bouquet

  FAIR was this blushing ROSE of May,
  And fresh it hail'd morn's breezy hour,

  48 lines
• Lines inscribed to P. de Loutherbourg, Esq. R. A.

  WHERE on the bosom of the foamy RHINE,
  In curling waves the rapid waters shine;

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• Lines on Hearing it Declared that No Women Were So Handsome as the English

  BEAUTY, the attribute of Heaven!
  In various forms to mortals given,

  54 lines
• Stanzas to a Friend

  AH! think no more that Life's delusive joys,
  Can charm my thoughts from FRIENDSHIP'S dearer claim;

  44 lines
• Rinaldo to Laura Maria

  THOU! whose sublime poetic art
  Can pierce the pulses of the heart,

  86 lines
• To Rinaldo

  SOFT is the balmy breath of May,
  When from the op'ning lids of day

  106 lines
• To the Muse of Poetry

  EXULT MY MUSE! exult to see
  Each envious, waspish, jealous thing,

  114 lines
• The Adieu to Love

  LOVE, I renounce thy tyrant sway,
  I mock thy fascinating art,

  168 lines
• Stanzas to Flora

  LET OTHERS wreaths of ROSES twine
  With scented leaves of EGLANTINE;

  30 lines
• To Cesario

  CESARIO, thy Lyre's dulcet measure,
  So sweetly, so tenderly flows;

  20 lines
• Echo to Him Who Complains

  O FLY thee from the shades of night,
  Where the loud tempests yelling rise;

  24 lines
• Stanzas

  WHEN fragrant gales and summer show'rs
  Call'd forth the sweetly scented flow'rs;

  30 lines
• Lines Written on the Sea-Coast

  SWIFT o'er the bounding deep the VESSEL glides,
  Its streamers flutt'ring in the summer gales,

  38 lines
• Stanzas Written under an Oak in Windsor Forest

  "HERE POPE FIRST SUNG!" O, hallow'd Tree !
  Such is the boast thy bark displays;

  78 lines
• Stanzas to the Rose

  SWEET PICTURE of Life's chequer'd hour!
  Ah, wherefore droop thy blushing head?

  30 lines
• To the Myrtle

  UNFADING branch of verdant hue,
  In modest sweetness drest,

  32 lines
• Stanzas Inscribed to Lady William Russell

  NATURE, to prove her heav'n-taught pow'r,
  That gems the earth, and paints the flow'r;

  16 lines
• Morning

  O'ER fallow plains and fertile meads,
  AURORA lifts the torch of day;

  56 lines
• Life

  "What is this world?­thy school, O misery!
  "Our only lesson is to learn to suffer."

  39 lines
• Lines to the memory of Richard Boyle, Esq.

  "Fate snatch'd him early to the pitying sky."
  - POPE.

  38 lines
• Stanzas to Love

  TELL ME, LOVE, when I rove o'er some far distant plain,
  Shall I cherish the passion that dwells in my breast?

  28 lines
• Oberon to the Queen of the Fairies

  My OBERON, with ev'ry sprite
  "That gilds the vapours of the night,

  69 lines
• Lines Written by the Side of a River

  FLOW soft RIVER, gently stray,
  Still a silent waving tide

  56 lines
• To Leonardo

  "Yes, LAURA, yes, pure as the virgin snow's
  "That on the bosom of the whirlwind move,,

  22 lines
• The Bee and the Butterfly

  UPON a garden's perfum'd bed
  With various gaudy colours spread,

  58 lines
• Stanzas to Time

  CAPRICIOUS foe to human joy,
  Still varying with the fleeting day;

  32 lines
• Canzonet

  SLOW the limpid currents twining,
  Brawl along the lonely dell,

  16 lines
• The Reply to Time

  O TIME, forgive the mournful song
  That on thy pinions stole along,

  52 lines
• Pastoral Stanzas

  WHEN AURORA'S soft blushes o'erspread the blue hill,
  And the mist dies away at the glances of morn;

  32 lines
• The Origin of Cupid -- A Fable

  ON IDA'S mount the gods were met,
  A sportive, jolly, noisy set,

  54 lines
• Sonnet. Inscribed to Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire

  'TIS NOT thy flowing hair of orient gold,
  Nor those bright eyes, like sapphire gems that glow;

  14 lines
• Sonnet to Amicus

  WHOE'ER thou art, whose soul-enchanting song
  Steals on the sullen ear of pensive woe;

  14 lines
• Sonnet to the Memory of Miss Maria Linley

  So bends beneath the storm yon balmy flow'r,
  Whose spicy blossoms once perfum'd the gale;

  14 lines
• Sonnet to Evening

  [Written under a tree in the woods of St. Amand, in Flanders.]
  

  15 lines
• Sonnet to Ingratitude

  He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one;
  All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

  17 lines
• Sonnet

  In early youth, blithe Spring's exulting day,
  Each hour put forth new raptures to my view;

  14 lines
• Sonnet to My Beloved Daughter

  WHEN FATE in ruthless rage assail'd my breast,
  And Heaven relentless seal'd the harsh decree;

  14 lines
• Sonnet -- The Mariner

  THE SEA-BEAT MARINER, whose watchful eye
  Full many a boist'rous night hath wak'd to weep;

  14 lines
• Sonnet -- The Peasant

  WIDE o'er the barren plain the bleak wind flies,
  Sweeps the high mountain's top, and with its breath

  14 lines
• Sonnet -- The Tear

  AH! LUST'ROUS GEM, bright emblem of the Heart,
  That nobly scorns a borrow'd ray to share,

  14 lines
• Sonnet -- The Snow-Drop

  THOU meekest emblem of the infant year,
  Why droops so cold and wan thy fragrant head ?

  14 lines
• Petrarch to Laura

  "Ere such a soul regains its peaceful state,
  "How often must it love, how often hate,

  315 lines
• Ainsi Va le Monde

  [As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the Royal Academy at Florence, and Author of the Laurel of L

  341 lines
• Sir Raymond of the Castle

  [The following little Poems are written after the Model of the Old English Ballads, and are inscribed to those who admire the simplicity of that kind of versifi

  157 lines
• Lewin and Gynneth

  "WHEN will my troubled soul have rest?"
  The beauteous LEWIN cried;

  148 lines

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