A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (James Thomson Poems)
Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth,To mingle with his stars; and every muse,Astonish'd into silence, shun the ...
James Thomson Poems on Pride (7 Poems)
Epitaph On Miss Stanley, In Holyrood Church, Southampton (James Thomson Poems)
E. S.Once a lively image of human nature, Such as God made itWhen he pronounced every work of his to be ...
On The Death Of His Mother (James Thomson Poems)
Ye fabled Muses, I your aid disclaim,Your airy raptures, and your fancied flame;True genuine woe my throbbing breast inspires,Love prompts ...
Happiness of a Country Life (James Thomson Poems)
Oh! knew he but his happiness, of menThe happiest he, who, far from public rage,Deep in the vale, with a ...
Lavinia (James Thomson Poems)
The lovely young Lavinia once had friends;And fortune smiled deceitful on her birth:For, in her helpless years deprived of all,Of ...
Nothing Formed In Vain (James Thomson Poems)
Let no presuming impious railer taxCreative wisdom, as if aught was form'dIn vain, or not for admirable ends.Shall little haughty ...
A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (James Thomson Poems)
Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth, To mingle with his stars; and every muse, Astonish'd into silence, ...