Category: Poetry
The apprehension which it becomes me to feel, in submitting these Poems to the judgment of the Public, may perhaps plead my excuse, for detaining the reader to relate, that they were written under the disadvantages of a confined education, and at an age too young for the attai...
My God! all nature owns thy sway, Thou giv'st the night, and thou the day! When all thy lov'd creation wakes, When morning, rich in lustre breaks, And bathes in dew the op'ning...
3. Chapter 3Oh, thou whose melody the heart obeys, Thou who can'st all its subject passions move, Whose notes to heav'n the list'ning soul can raise, Can thrill with pity, or can melt with...
8. Chapter 8But from the scene where raging slaughter burns, The timid muse with pallid horror turns: The sounds of frantic woe she panting hears, 15 Where anguish dims a mother's eye with...
2. Chapter 2Sir William Jerningham, Bart. Miss Jackson, Nicholas-Field, Kelso. Henry Jackson, Esq. Thomas Scott Jackson, Esq. Mrs. T. S. Jackson. Charles Jackson, jun. Esq. Miss Jackson. Wi...
5. Chapter 5Rise, winds of night! relentless tempests rise! Rush from the troubled clouds, and o'er me roll; In this chill pause a deeper horror lies, A wilder fear appals my shudd'ring sou...
1. Chapter 1The apprehension which it becomes me to feel, in submitting these Poems to the judgment of the Public, may perhaps plead my excuse, for detaining the reader to relate, that they...
6. Chapter 6[A]Sudden, while frantic zeal each breast inspires, 25 And shudd'ring demons fan the impious fires, The bloody signal waves, the banners play, The naked sabres flash their strea...
7. Chapter 7Soon as Almagro heard applauding fame 115 The triumphs of Peruvia, loud proclaim, Unconquer'd Chili's vale he swift forsakes, And his bold course to distant Cusco takes; Shuns A...
9. Chapter 9"Yet I could see my Alfred's fix'd despair, "And aw'd by filial fear conceal my woes; "My coward heart cou'd separation bear, "And check the struggling anguish as it rose!