On Happiness (James Thomson Poems)
Warm'd by the summer sun's meridian ray,As underneath a spreading oak I layContemplating the mighty load of woe,In search of ...
James Thomson Poems on Soul (22 Poems)
A Hymn (James Thomson Poems)
These, as they change, Almighty Father, theseAre but the varied God. The rolling yearIs full of thee. Forth in the ...
Psalm CIV. Paraphrased (James Thomson Poems)
To praise thy Author, Soul, do not forget;Canst thou, in gratitude, deny the debt?Lord, thou art great, how great we ...
On Beauty (James Thomson Poems)
Beauty deserves the homage of the muse:Shall mine, rebellious, the dear theme refuse?No; while my breast respires the vital air,Wholly ...
A Man Perishing in the Snow: From Whence Reflections are Raised on the Miseries of Life. (James Thomson Poems)
As thus the snows arise; and foul and fierce,All winter drives along the darken'd air;In his own loose-revolving fields, the ...
A Pastoral Between Thirsis And Corydon, Upon The Death Of Damon, By Whom Is Meant Mr. W. Riddell (James Thomson Poems)
Thir.Say, tell me true, what is the doleful causeThat Corydon is not the man he was?Your cheerful presence used to ...
Reflections Suggested By Winter (James Thomson Poems)
'Tis done! dread winter spreads its latest glooms,And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year.How dead the vegetable kingdom lies!How dumb ...
A Summer Noon (James Thomson Poems)
'Tis raging noon; and, vertical, the sunDarts on the head direct his forceful rays.O'er heaven and earth, far as the ...
Rambles In Autumn (James Thomson Poems)
But see the fading many-colour'd woods,Shade deepening over shade, the country roundImbrown; a crowded umbrage, dusk, and dun,Of every hue, ...
A Nuptial Song (James Thomson Poems)
Come, gentle Venus! and assuageA warring world, a bleeding age.For nature lives beneath thy ray,The wintry tempests haste away,A lucid ...
The Effects of Spring on Nature (James Thomson Poems)
See where the winding vale its lavish stores,Irriguous, spreads. See, how the lily drinksThe latent rill, scarce oozing through the ...
Prologue To Mallet’s Mustapha (James Thomson Poems)
Since Athens first began to draw mankind,To picture life, and show the impassion'd mind;The truly wise have ever deem'd the ...
Prologue To Tancred And Sigismunda (James Thomson Poems)
Bold is the man! who, in this nicer age,Presumes to tread the chaste corrected stage.Now, with gay tinsel arts, we ...
A Complaint On The Miseries Of Life (James Thomson Poems)
I loathe, O Lord, this life below,And all its fading fleeting joys;'Tis a short space that's fill'd with woe,Which all ...
The Incomparable Soporific Doctor (James Thomson Poems)
Sweet, sleeky Doctor! dear pacific soul!Lay at the beef, and suck the vital bowl!Still let the involving smoke around thee ...
Insects In Summer (James Thomson Poems)
Waked by his warmer ray, the reptile youngCame wing'd abroad; by the light air upborneLighter, and full of soul. From ...
Contentment (James Thomson Poems)
If those who live in shepherd's bower, Press not the rich and stately bed;The new-mown hay and breathing flower A softer couch ...
He, when young Spring protrudes the bursting gems (James Thomson Poems)
He, when young Spring protrudes the bursting gems,Into his freshened soul; her genial hoursHe full enjoys; and not a beauty ...
The Morning Lark (James Thomson Poems)
Feather'd lyric, warbling high,Sweetly gaining on the sky,Op'ning with thy matin lay(Nature's hymn) the eye of day,Teach my soul, on ...
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, ...
Sunday up the River (James Thomson Poems)
MY love o'er the water bends dreaming; It glideth and glideth away: She sees there her own beauty, gleaming Through ...
The Seasons: Winter (James Thomson Poems)
See! Winter comes, to rule the varied Year, Sullen, and sad; with all his rising Train, Vapours, and Clouds, and ...