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 Time (10 Poems)
Destiny (John Kenyon Poems)
"Strange Power! mysterious Destiny! Thou who dost love to sit, alone, With moveless lip, and brooding eye, Close beside the' eternal throne; When from ...
To Mary Anning (John Kenyon Poems)
Thee, Mary! first 'twas lightning struck, And then a water-vat half drowned; But I can't think 'twas mere blind luck Twice left for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hint To The Poets (John Kenyon Poems)
Brother Bard! if dream thou nourish, Thro' new fancy or new truth, 'Mid the sons of fame to flourish, Thou must lean on ...
A Day At Tivoli – Epilogue (John Kenyon Poems)
Farewell, Romantic Tivoli! With all thy pleasant out-door time; For now, again, we cross the sea, To house us in our northern clime. Since ...
Time (John Kenyon Poems)
Like as one, erewhile pursuing, Shouts him o'er his captured foe, "Spite of all thy fleetest doing, Now, thou Slave! behind me go." So ...