James Thomson's Poetry, by written

• The Four Seasons : Spring

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

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• Summer

  Now swarms the village o'er the jovial mead:
  The rustic youth, brown with meridian toil,

  18 lines, 1 comment
• Lisy's Parting With Her Cat

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

  59 lines
• To Seraphina

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

  21 lines
• On The Hoop

  The hoop, the darling justly of the fair,
  Of every generous swain deserves the care.

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• On May

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

  10 lines
• An Elegy Upon James Therburn, In Chatto

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

  47 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
• 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;

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• 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,

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• To His Royal Highness The Prince Of Wales

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

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• To Her I Love

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

  19 lines
• On Æolus's Harp

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

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• Hymn To God's Power

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

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

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

  54 lines
• A Nuptial Song

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

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• 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,

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• To The God Of Fond Desire

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

  14 lines
• Rule, Britannia! (With Variations)

  When Britain first, at heaven's command,
    Arose from out the azure main;

  40 lines, 1 comment
• Hymn On Solitude

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

  52 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;

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• A Hymn

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

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• Scene Between May and June

  In lowly dale, fast by a river's side,
  With woody hill o'er hill encompass'd round,

  50 lines
• Sheep-Sheering

  In one diffusive band,
  They drive the troubled flocks, by many a dog

  51 lines
• Spring Showers

  The north-east spends his rage; he now shut up
  Within his iron cave, th' effusive south

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• The Effects of Spring on Nature

  See where the winding vale its lavish stores,
  Irriguous, spreads. See, how the lily drinks

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• 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
• Nothing Formed In Vain

  Let no presuming impious railer tax
  Creative wisdom, as if aught was form'd

  23 lines
• Death of the Stag

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

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