Dorchester Amphitheatre . (John Kenyon Poems)
By Rome's old amphitheatre I stood, Still pretty perfect, on the Weymouth road, Within some half a mile of Dorchester. There had I ...
John Kenyon Poems on Life (12 Poems)
The Streams (John Kenyon Poems)
Two streams there were, two streams from separate founts, Both beautiful to see, and one-most holy; (From Siloa this, and this from ...
Growing Attachment (John Kenyon Poems)
With the freshness and placid sensations of morning, As yet all unconscious of hope or of plan, (Sweet gleams through thin hazes ...
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 ...
Truth (John Kenyon Poems)
"Truth may lie fossil in some cave, no doubt;But 'twere a mad success to win her out." Rhymed Plea for ...
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 ...
Lines Suggested By Ode XXIX. Book I. Of Horace (John Kenyon Poems)
To ANTONIO PANIZZI, ESQ. AS THE WORTHY OCCASION, AND TO THE REV. CHRISTOPHER ERLE, AS THE PROMPT THROWER-OUT OF THE ...
Aspasia (John Kenyon Poems)
TO ------. Bright Aspasia! say-how is it? Tell us with what spell is rife Smile of thine, whose briefest visit Wakes each dullest clod ...
Mid-Day (John Kenyon Poems)
'Tis deepest Mid-day! Not a sound is heard, Save this low insect-murmur; which yet seems No voice from mere capricious things of ...
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 ...
Freedom (John Kenyon Poems)
Tis not because fierce swords are flashing there, With license and a reckless scorn of life, When for some petty gaud upstarts ...
Suggested By The Death Of Charles Skinner Matthews (John Kenyon Poems)
Joyously launched on life's untravelled streams, Youth fears nor open sea nor treacherous bay; Gay voyager, whose wildly devious way Fond hope and ...