Margaret Chalmers Poems on Sense & Perception (6 Poems)

The Sufferings of Faro Parts I, II (Margaret Chalmers Poems)

The following lines were suggested by the circumstance of a boat, from the Faro Islands, stopping at Lerwick, on her way to Leith, in quest of a supply of provisions, the Islands being at the time under the calamity of … Continue reading →

A Summer Sabbath Morn (Margaret Chalmers Poems)

THE hallowed morn faint glimmering in the East,Dawns on a slumb’ring and a ransom’d world;How dearly ransom’d! wonderful the priceBy which the great Redemption was obtain’d.Sleep on, and take your rest ye rescued tribes,For your Redeemer slumbers not, nor sleeps.Yet, … Continue reading →

Lines, on the Drawing Room of an Intimate Friend of the Author’s (Margaret Chalmers Poems)

SWEET scene, on me full often hast thou smil’d,And for a while my pressing cares beguil’d;In thee have I spent many a chearful day,And thus to me thou sayst, or seemst to say,–“Welcome, consider me as a true friend,“To whom … Continue reading →

On the Banks of the Esk (Margaret Chalmers Poems)

WHILE Tweed’s fam’d stream in numbers rolls along,And Tay’s meanders sweetly glide in song;Thy windings Esk, in silence should not flow,If the coy Nine would numbers fit bestow;Fain would my humble muse thy beauties sing,Would sing thy banks, thy groves, … Continue reading →

Lines, (Margaret Chalmers Poems)

HAIL , precious drops! may you relief impartUnto the Royal Mourner’s gentle heart.Hail, precious drops! by nature kindly lent,Grief’s overpow’ring torrent to prevent.Hail, precious drops! you flow from virtue’s source,And prove affection in its native force.While touch’d thy heart with … Continue reading →

On the Expected return of Lord Collingwood to England (Margaret Chalmers Poems)

WHILE every muse impatient waits To meet the hero on the strand,And welcome Collingwood’s return, Triumphant! to his native land,Will he forgive a Thulian maid Her rude attempt, untaught to sing,Who never trod Aonian mount, Nor ever sipp’d Pierian spring.Stern Neptune, give thy sea-nymphs … Continue reading →