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 (75 Poems)
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 ...
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 A Country Life (James Thomson Poems)
I hate the clamours of the smoky towns,But much admire the bliss of rural clowns;Where some remains of innocence appear,Where ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sheep-Sheering (James Thomson Poems)
In one diffusive band,They drive the troubled flocks, by many a dogCompell'd to where the mazy-running brookForms a deep pool; ...
An Elegy Upon James Therburn, In Chatto (James Thomson Poems)
Now, Chatto, you're a dreary place,Pale sorrow broods on ilka face;Therburn has run his race.And now, and now, ah me, ...
Scene Between May and June (James Thomson Poems)
In lowly dale, fast by a river's side,With woody hill o'er hill encompass'd round,A most enchanting wizard did abide,Than whom ...
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 ...
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 ...
Spring Showers (James Thomson Poems)
The north-east spends his rage; he now shut upWithin his iron cave, th' effusive southWarms the wide air, and o'er ...
A Pastoral Betwixt David, Thirsis, And The Angel Gabriel, Upon The Birth Of Our Saviour (James Thomson Poems)
DAVID.What means yon apparition in the sky,Thirsis, that dazzles every shepherd's eye?I slumbering was when from yon glorious cloudCame gliding ...
A Pastoral Entertainment (James Thomson Poems)
While in heroic numbers some relateThe amazing turns of wise eternal fate;Exploits of heroes in the dusty field,That to their ...
Epilogue To Tancred And Sigismunda (James Thomson Poems)
Cramm'd to the throat with wholesome moral stuff,Alas! poor audience! you have had enough.Was ever hapless heroine of a playIn ...
Care of Birds for their Young (James Thomson Poems)
As thus the patient dam assiduous sits,Not to be tempted from her tender task,Or by sharp hunger, or by smooth ...
Hymn On Solitude (James Thomson Poems)
Hail, mildly pleasing Solitude,Companion of the wise and good,But from whose holy piercing eyeThe herd of fools and villains fly.Oh! ...
Lines On Marle Field (James Thomson Poems)
What is the task that to the muse belongs?What but to deck in her harmonious songsThe beauteous works of nature ...
Rule, Britannia! (With Variations) (James Thomson Poems)
When Britain first, at heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main;This was the charter of the land, And guardian Angels sung ...
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 ...
A Paraphrase On The Latter Part Of The Sixth Chapter Of St Matthew (James Thomson Poems)
When my breast labours with oppressive care,And o'er my cheek descends the falling tear:While all my warring passions are at ...
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 ...
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 ...
Death of the Stag (James Thomson Poems)
The stag, too, singled from the herd, where longHe ranged, the branching monarch of the shade,Before the tempest drives. At ...