Pretence. Part II – The Library (John Kenyon Poems)
ARGUMENT. REFUGE IN A LIBRARY. CONVERSE WITH BOOKS.-POLEMICAL WRITERS.-POETS- BOOKS READ OVER AGAIN. THE WORLDLY CONTINUALLY TAKES PLACE OF THE ...
John Kenyon Poems on Friendship (13 Poems)
To Isaac Walton (John Kenyon Poems)
Walton! dear Angler! when, a school-freed boy, Of varnished rod and silken tackle proud, I sought the brooks, or by some still ...
Astronomy (John Kenyon Poems)
Lucinda! Lucinda! why all this abstraction? May astronomy hold no communion with mirth? Stars-comets-eclipses have these such attraction To steal you from our ...
Reverie (John Kenyon Poems)
Oh! blest it is by blazing hearth, With many a well-loved friend beside, And harp, and wine, and graceful mirth, To mock December's ...
On A Dog (John Kenyon Poems)
Thy happy years of deep affection past, Cartouche! our faithful friend, rest here-at last. We loved thee for a love man scarce ...
For The Sister’s Album (John Kenyon Poems)
Soft lays, that dwell on lips and eyes. Long since with me have had their day; At fifty, hearts grow cold or ...
Love In Disguise (John Kenyon Poems)
Unscathed through Beauty's thorny ways Be mine, I said, henceforth to rove; Too long hath Love consumed my days, But now I shut ...
To Louisa C-, For Her Album (John Kenyon Poems)
Life is an Album; and my free Imagination loves to look And read, with happy augury, Thy life's as yet scarce opened book. And ...
Gossip (John Kenyon Poems)
Gossip right and left you're strowing, Never heeding what you do; Tho' each idle word you're sowing Friend and neighbour long may rue. When ...
Lines For The Late Caroline K.’s Album (John Kenyon Poems)
Like thine own Album, which lies here before me, Life is a volume. Sweetly some are writ In sanctity; as when mild ...
To My Friend ,Joseph Ritchie, (John Kenyon Poems)
ABOUT TO EXPLORE THE NIGER. Ritchie! to whom it shall be given to view And trace (none worthier) that strange river's swell, The ...
To The Lamented Memory Of F. H. C. (John Kenyon Poems)
Sweet friend, farewell! to whom propitious birth Gave beauty-sense-the prosperous goods of earth; To whom not less were faith and duty given, Those ...
Epitaph (John Kenyon Poems)
Riches I had! they faded from my view- And troops of friends! but they deceived me too- And fame! it came and ...