James Thomson's Poetry, by title

• A Complaint On The Miseries Of Life

  I loathe, O Lord, this life below,
  And all its fading fleeting joys;

  35 lines
• A Hymn

  These, as they change, Almighty Father, these
  Are but the varied God. The rolling year

  118 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
• A Nuptial Song

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

  38 lines
• A Paraphrase On The Latter Part Of The Sixth Chapter Of St Matthew

  When my breast labours with oppressive care,
  And o'er my cheek descends the falling tear:

  34 lines
• A Pastoral Between Thirsis And Corydon, Upon The Death Of Damon, By Whom Is Meant Mr. W. Riddell

  Thir.
  Say, tell me true, what is the doleful cause

  65 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
• A Pastoral Entertainment

  While in heroic numbers some relate
  The amazing turns of wise eternal fate;

  42 lines
• 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
• 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
• A Summer Noon

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

  38 lines, 1 comment
• An Elegy on Parting

  It was a sad, ay 'twas a sad farewell,
  I still afresh the pangs of parting feel;

  29 lines
• An Elegy Upon James Therburn, In Chatto

  Now, Chatto, you're a dreary place,
  Pale sorrow broods on ilka face;

  47 lines
• Care of Birds for their Young

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

  40 lines
• Cattle In Summer

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

  25 lines
• Come, Gentle God

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

  14 lines
• Contentment

  If those who live in shepherd's bower,
    Press not the rich and stately bed;

  19 lines
• Dawn In Summer

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

  25 lines
• Death of the Stag

  The stag, too, singled from the herd, where long
  He ranged, the branching monarch of the shade,

  30 lines
• Epilogue to Agamemnon

  Our bard, to modern epilogue a foe,
  Thinks such mean mirth but deadens generous woe;

  23 lines
• Epilogue To Tancred And Sigismunda

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

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

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

  54 lines
• Evening In Autumn

  The western sun withdrawn the shorten'd day,
  And humid evening, gliding o'er the sky

  21 lines
• Evening In Summer

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

  27 lines
• From Those Eternal Regions

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

  16 lines
• Happiness of a Country Life

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

  43 lines
• He, when young Spring protrudes the bursting gems

  He, when young Spring protrudes the bursting gems,
  Into his freshened soul; her genial hours

  14 lines
• Hymn On Solitude

  Hail, mildly pleasing Solitude,
  Companion of the wise and good,

  52 lines
• Hymn To God's Power

  Hail! Power Divine, who by thy sole command,
    From the dark empty space,

  39 lines
• Insects In Summer

  Waked by his warmer ray, the reptile young
  Came wing'd abroad; by the light air upborne

  25 lines

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