Poems (1828)

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1828.
Some of the Pieces in this volume have been separately published, at different times; the indulgence, I may say favour, with which they were individually received, has encouraged me to collect and re-publish them. I have added many others, which are now first printed. I shall be well satisfied, if they find as favourable a reception as their precursors; and are thought not to have increased the size, without at all increasing the merit, of the book.
I cannot omit this opportunity of thanking those Critics, who have honoured me by reviewing my verses. I owe them my warm acknowledgments for candidly measuring my Poems by their pretensions. They have looked at them as they really were;—as the amusements of the leisure hours of a man whose fortune will not favour his inclination to devote himself to poetry; and conceiving a favourable opinion of them in that character, have kindly expressed it.
London, December, 1827.
What earthly tongue, and, oh! what human pen Can tell that scene of suffering, too severe. 'Tis ever present to my sight, oh! when Will the sound cease its torture on mine ear?
Oh! my lost love, thou patient Being, never! Thy dying look of love can I forget; The last fond pressure of thy hand, for ever! Thrills in my veins, I see thy struggles yet.
Thy sculptured beauty is before me now: In thy calm dignity, and sweet repose, Alas! sad memory re-invests thy brow, With death's stern agony, and pain's last throes.
Desolate heart be still—forgive, oh God! The cries of feeble nature stricken sore. Father! assuage the terrors of thy rod. Teach me to see thy wisdom—and adore!
Poems Mature Reflections The Grave of Dibdin A Sketch from Life On the Portrait of the Son of J.G. Lambton, Esq. Written in the Album of the Lady of Counsellor D. Pollock The Heliotrope Sonnet On seeing a Young Lady I had previously known, confined in a Madhouse Prometheus Rosa's Grave The Sibyl. A Sketch Love On a delightful Drawing in my Album Stanzas Shakspeare Impromptu. To Oriana, on attending with her, as Sponsors, at a Christening To my Spaniel Fanny Widowed Love Written to the Lady of Dr. George Birkbeck The Chain-pier, Brighton. A Sketch Sonnet. Morning. On the Death of Dr. Abel Sonnet. Night. Constancy. To ——— Epistle to a Friend Here in our Fairy Bowers we Dwell. A Glee Henry and Eliza Written on the Death of General Washington To ——— Monody on the Right Hon. R.B. Sheridan On the beautiful Portrait of Mrs. Forman, as Pandora Sonnet. To ———, on her Recovery from Illness To Margaret Jane H———, on her Birth-day The Runaway On Reading the Poem of Paris. On the Death of Gen. Sir R. Abercrombie Retaliation Lines, written in a Copy of the Poem on the Princess Charlotte Sonnet To Robert Soothey, Esq. on reading his Remains of Henry Kirke White The State Secret. An Impromptu The Morning Call Sonnet On the Rupture of the Thames' Tunnel Anacreontic. The Wisest Men are Fools in Wine. Lines, written in Hornsey Wood To Mary Black Eyes and Blue Epigram. Auri Sacra Fames Sonnet. To Faith On a Spirited Portrait, by E. Landaeer, Esq. Sonnet. To Hope Lines, written on the Sixth of September Sonnet. To Charity Hymn Reflections of a Poet on going to a great Dinner Sunday A Night-Storm On the Death of Nelson The Blue-eyed Maid Taking Orders. A Tale, founded on fact The Gipsy's Home. A Glee Sonnet. The Beggar To ——— Song. The Recal of the Hero. To Eliza. Written in her Album Elegy on the Death of A. Goldsmid, Esq. Sonnet. On the Death of Mrs. Charlotte Smith Mister Punch. A Hasty Sketch Content Epitaph. On Matilda To ———. An Impromptu The Steam-Boat Sonnet To Lydia, on her Birth-day To Sarah, while Singing To Thaddeus Youth and Age Sent for the Album of the Rev. G——- C——- Written under an elegant Drawing of a Dead Canary Bird Lines suggested by the Death of the Princess Charlotte The Presumptuous Fly The Heroes of Waterloo The Night-blowing Cereus 1827; or, the Poet's Last Poem To the Reviewers