James Thomson's Poetry, by first line

• A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton

  Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth,
  To mingle with his stars; and every muse,

  209 lines
• Winter

  SEE! Winter comes, to rule the varied Year, Sullen, and sad; with all his rising Train,
  Vapours, and Clouds, and Storms: Be these my Theme,

  404 lines
• The Study and Beauties of the Works of Nature

  O Nature! all-sufficient! over all!
  Enrich me with the knowledge of Thy works!

  23 lines
• Happiness of a Country Life

  Oh! knew he but his happiness, of men
  The happiest he, who, far from public rage,

  43 lines
• Dawn In Summer

  When now no more th' alternate twins are fired,
  And Cancer reddens with the solar blaze,

  25 lines
• A Summer Noon

  'Tis raging noon; and, vertical, the sun
  Darts on the head direct his forceful rays.

  38 lines, 1 comment
• Songs In The Masque Of Alfred: To Peace

        O Peace! the fairest child of heaven,
        To whom the sylvan reign was given,

  6 lines
• Reflections Suggested By Winter

  'Tis done! dread winter spreads its latest glooms,
  And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year.

  45 lines
• To The Same (Amanda) With A Copy Of The 'Seasons'

  Accept, loved Nymph, this tribute due
  To tender friendship, love, and you:

  8 lines
• Verses Addressed To Amanda

  Ah, urged too late! from beauty's bondage free,
  Why did I trust my liberty with thee?

  14 lines
• On May

  Among the changing months, May stands confest
  The sweetest, and in fairest colours dressed!

  10 lines
• Cattle In Summer

  Around th' adjoining brook, that purls along
  The vocal grove, now fretting o'er a rock,

  25 lines
• Care of Birds for their Young

  As thus the patient dam assiduous sits,
  Not to be tempted from her tender task,

  40 lines
• A Man Perishing in the Snow: From Whence Reflections are Raised on the Miseries of Life.

  As thus the snows arise; and foul and fierce,
  All winter drives along the darken'd air;

  79 lines
• On Beauty

  Beauty deserves the homage of the muse:
  Shall mine, rebellious, the dear theme refuse?

  93 lines
• Prologue To Tancred And Sigismunda

  Bold is the man! who, in this nicer age,
  Presumes to tread the chaste corrected stage.

  29 lines
• Rambles In Autumn

  But see the fading many-colour'd woods,
  Shade deepening over shade, the country round

  33 lines
• On The Report That A Wooden Bridge Was To Be Built At Westminster

  By Rufus' hall, where Thames polluted flows,
  Provoked, the Genius of the river rose,

  16 lines
• To Amanda - Come, Dear Amanda, Quit The Town

  Come, dear Amanda, quit the town,
  And to the rural hamlets fly;

  15 lines
• Come, Gentle God

  Come, gentle God of soft desire,
    Come and possess my happy breast,

  14 lines
• The Four Seasons : Spring

  Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come,
  And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud,

  1172 lines
• A Nuptial Song

  Come, gentle Venus! and assuage
  A warring world, a bleeding age.

  38 lines
• Evening In Summer

  Confess'd from yonder slow-extinguish'd clouds,
  All ether softening, sober Evening takes

  27 lines
• Epilogue To Tancred And Sigismunda

  Cramm'd to the throat with wholesome moral stuff,
  Alas! poor audience! you have had enough.

  38 lines
• The Four Seasons : Autumn

  Crown'd with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf,
  While Autumn, nodding o'er the yellow plain,

  1370 lines
• A Pastoral Betwixt David, Thirsis, And The Angel Gabriel, Upon The Birth Of Our Saviour

  DAVID.
  What means yon apparition in the sky,

  50 lines
• Epitaph On Miss Stanley, In Holyrood Church, Southampton

  E. S.
  Once a lively image of human nature,

  54 lines
• On Æolus's Harp

  Ethereal race, inhabitants of air,
    Who hymn your god amid the secret grove;

  29 lines
• The Morning Lark

  Feather'd lyric, warbling high,
  Sweetly gaining on the sky,

  11 lines
• Songs In The Masque Of Alfred: To Alfred

  First Spirit.
  Hear, Alfred, father of the state,

  15 lines

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