James Thomson's Poetry, by popularity

• To His Royal Highness The Prince Of Wales

  While secret-leaguing nations frown around,
    Ready to pour the long-expected storm;

  34 lines
• Songs In The Masque Of Alfred: To Peace

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

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

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

  15 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 The Reverend Patrick Murdoch, Rector Of Stradishall, In Suffolk

  Thus safely low, my friend, thou canst not fall:
  Here reigns a deep tranquillity o'er all;

  10 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
• Lisy's Parting With Her Cat

  The dreadful hour with leaden pace approached,
  Lashed fiercely on by unrelenting fate,

  59 lines
• To Love (Amanda)

  Sweet tyrant Love,— but hear me now!
    And cure while young this pleasing smart;

  19 lines
• Verses Addressed To Amanda

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

  14 lines
• To Fortune

  For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove
  An unrelenting foe to love,

  24 lines
• To Myra

  O thou, whose tender serious eyes
    Expressive speak the mind I love;

  19 lines
• To The Nightingale

  O nightingale, best poet of the grove,
    That plaintive strain can ne'er belong to thee,

  19 lines
• Sweet Valley, Say

  Sweet valley, say, where, pensive lying,
      For me, our children, England, sighing,

  19 lines
• On May

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

  10 lines
• On The Death Of Mr Aikman

  Oh, could I draw, my friend, thy genuine mind,
  Just as the living forms by thee designed;

  42 lines
• To Her I Love

  Tell me, thou soul of her I love,
    Ah! tell me, whither art thou fled;

  19 lines
• To The God Of Fond Desire

  One day the God of fond desire,
    On mischief bent, to Damon said,

  14 lines
• To Seraphina

  The wanton's charms, however bright,
  Are like the false illusive light

  21 lines
• The Happy Man

  He's not the happy man, to whom is given
  A plenteous fortune by indulgent Heaven;

  28 lines
• The Incomparable Soporific Doctor

  Sweet, sleeky Doctor! dear pacific soul!
  Lay at the beef, and suck the vital bowl!

  26 lines
• On Mrs Mendez' Birthday, Who Was Born On Valentine's Day

  Thine is the gentle day of love,
    When youths and virgins try their fate;

  9 lines
• On Æolus's Harp

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

  29 lines
• The Lover's Fate

  Hard is the fate of him who loves,
    Yet dares not tell his trembling pain,

  29 lines
• Stanzas Written By Thomson On The Blank Leaf Of A Copy Of His 'Seasons' Sent By Him To Mr. Lyttleton, Soon After The Death Of His Wife

  Go, little book, and find our Friend,
    Who Nature and the Muses loves,

  9 lines
• To The Memory Of The Right Honourable Lord Talbot, Late Chancellor Of Great Britain. Addressed To His Son.

  While with the public, you, my Lord, lament
  A friend and father lost; permit the muse,

  359 lines
• Song

  When blooming spring
  Arrays the laughing fields in green,

  12 lines
• A Poetical Epistle To Sir William Bennet, Bart. of Grubbat

  My trembling muse your honour does address,
  That it's a bold attempt most humbly I confess;

  10 lines
• On The Death Of His Mother

  Ye fabled Muses, I your aid disclaim,
  Your airy raptures, and your fancied flame;

  62 lines
• When Last We Parted

  When last we parted, thou wert young and fair,
  How beautiful let fond remembrance say!

  14 lines
• From Those Eternal Regions

  From those eternal regions bright,
        Where suns, that never set in night,

  16 lines

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