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James Thomson
- Close sectionMiscellaneous Poems
- Introduction
- 1 Lisy's parting with her cat
- 2 [Lines: 'Happy the house']
- 3 [The Works and Wonders of Almighty Power]
- 4 On his Mother's death
- 5 [Extempore lines: 'Why not all faults']
- 6 [Lines: 'Bounteous Creator']
- 7 Hymn on Solitude
- 8 A Paraphrase on the latter Part of the Sixth Chapter of St. Matthew
- 9 The Happy Man
- 10 The Incomparable Soporific Doctor
- 11 A Nuptial Song, intended to have been inserted in the Fourth Act [of Sophonisba]
- 12 On J. M. S. Gent
- 13 [Lines: 'Happy the man']
- 14 [On the Death of Mr. William Aikman, the Painter]
- 15 Song: ['For ever, Fortune']
- 16 Ode: ['Tell me, your soul']
- 17 Song: ['Unless with my Amanda']
- 18 Song: ['Come, gentle Power']
- 19 Ode: ['O Nightingale']
- 20 [Lines: 'Snatch me some God']
- 21 Song: ['Hard is the Fate']
- 22 [Song: 'Sweet Tyrant Love']
- 23 [Lines: 'In this soft Song']
- 24 [Lines: 'In Vain the Gentle Moon']
- 25 To Seraphina. Ode
- 26 To Retirement: an Ode
- 27 On a Lady's undertaking to tell a Gentleman what he thought on by feeling his Pulse
- 28 [Line to Spence]
- 29 The Smoker Smoked
- 30 On the Report of a Wooden Bridge to be built at Westminster
- 31 To his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, an Ode
- 32 To the Reverend Mr. Murdoch, Rector of Straddishall in Suffolk. 1738
- 33 Prologue to Mallet's Mustapha
- 34 Epitaph on Miss Stanley
- 35 Epitaph on Solomon Mendez, esq.
- 36 Epitaph on Mr. Jacob Mendez
- 37 Verses on Mrs. Mendez's Birthday, born on Valentine's Day
- 38 [Lines: 'To honour humble Worth']
- 39 Song: ['One Day the God']
- 40 [Song: 'O you, whose tender serious Eyes']
- 41 [Lines: 'Ah wise too late']
- 42 [Lines: 'Still as I gazed']
- 43 Song: ['Come, dear Eliza']
- 44 Song: ['How long, Eliza']
- 45 [Lines: 'Hail to the Day']
- 46 To Miss Young, my dearest Amanda
- 47 [Lines: 'O you! For whom']
- 48 To George Lyttelton, Esq.
- 49 An Ode, on the Winter Solstice
- 50 Ode on Aeolus's Harp
James Sambrook (ed.), James Thomson: Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and Other Poems
Contents
- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionA Poem Sacred To The Memory Of Sir Isaac Newton
- Close sectionBritannia, A Poem
- Close sectionLiberty, A Poem
- i
- ii
- LIBERTY, A POEM to his royal highness FREDERICK, PRINCE of WALES.
- ANTIENT AND MODERN ITALY COMPARED BEING THE FIRST PART OF LIBERTY, A POEM.
- GREECE BEING THE SECOND PART OF LIBERTY, A POEM.
- ROME BEING THE THIRD PART OF LIBERTY, A POEM.
- BRITAIN BEING THE FOURTH PART OF LIBERTY, A POEM.
- THE PROSPECT BEING THE FIFTH PART OF LIBERTY, A POEM.
- Close sectionA Poem To The Memory Of The Right Honourable The Lord Talbot
- Close sectionThe Castle Of Indolence, An Allegorical Poem
- Close sectionJuvenilia
- Introduction
- 1 Upon Beauty
- 2 A Pastoral between David Thirsis and The Angel Gabriel upon the birth of Our Saviour
- 3 Psalm 104 Paraphrased
- 4 The yielding Maid
- 5 Upon Marle-field
- 6 A complaint on the miseries of this life
- 7 A Poetical Epistle to Sir William Bennet of Grubbat Baronet
- 8 Upon May
- 9 Upon the Hoop
- 10 A Hymn to God's power
- 11 A Pastoral betwixt Damon and Celia parting
- 12 The morning in the country
- 13 A Pastoral betwixt Thirsis and Corydon upon the death of Damon
- 14 A Description of ten o'clock of night in the town
- 15 The fable of a sick Kite and its Dame
- 16 Upon Mrs. Elizabeth Bennet
- 17 A Pastoral Entertainment described
- 18 An Elegy upon Parting
- 19 The Fable of a Hawk and Nightingale
- 20 [Fragment: Upon a Flower given me by –––]
- 21 Upon the Sparkler!
- 22 A Song
- 23 Song of Solomon Chap: 1 verse: 7
- 24 A Dialogue In praise of the pastoral Life
- 25 A Pastoral
- 26 An Elegy upon James Therburn In Chatto
- 27 Verses on receiving a Flower from his Mistress
- 28 Upon Happiness
- 29 Of a Country Life
- Close sectionMiscellaneous Poems
- Introduction
- 1 Lisy's parting with her cat
- 2 [Lines: 'Happy the house']
- 3 [The Works and Wonders of Almighty Power]
- 4 On his Mother's death
- 5 [Extempore lines: 'Why not all faults']
- 6 [Lines: 'Bounteous Creator']
- 7 Hymn on Solitude
- 8 A Paraphrase on the latter Part of the Sixth Chapter of St. Matthew
- 9 The Happy Man
- 10 The Incomparable Soporific Doctor
- 11 A Nuptial Song, intended to have been inserted in the Fourth Act [of Sophonisba]
- 12 On J. M. S. Gent
- 13 [Lines: 'Happy the man']
- 14 [On the Death of Mr. William Aikman, the Painter]
- 15 Song: ['For ever, Fortune']
- 16 Ode: ['Tell me, your soul']
- 17 Song: ['Unless with my Amanda']
- 18 Song: ['Come, gentle Power']
- 19 Ode: ['O Nightingale']
- 20 [Lines: 'Snatch me some God']
- 21 Song: ['Hard is the Fate']
- 22 [Song: 'Sweet Tyrant Love']
- 23 [Lines: 'In this soft Song']
- 24 [Lines: 'In Vain the Gentle Moon']
- 25 To Seraphina. Ode
- 26 To Retirement: an Ode
- 27 On a Lady's undertaking to tell a Gentleman what he thought on by feeling his Pulse
- 28 [Line to Spence]
- 29 The Smoker Smoked
- 30 On the Report of a Wooden Bridge to be built at Westminster
- 31 To his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, an Ode
- 32 To the Reverend Mr. Murdoch, Rector of Straddishall in Suffolk. 1738
- 33 Prologue to Mallet's Mustapha
- 34 Epitaph on Miss Stanley
- 35 Epitaph on Solomon Mendez, esq.
- 36 Epitaph on Mr. Jacob Mendez
- 37 Verses on Mrs. Mendez's Birthday, born on Valentine's Day
- 38 [Lines: 'To honour humble Worth']
- 39 Song: ['One Day the God']
- 40 [Song: 'O you, whose tender serious Eyes']
- 41 [Lines: 'Ah wise too late']
- 42 [Lines: 'Still as I gazed']
- 43 Song: ['Come, dear Eliza']
- 44 Song: ['How long, Eliza']
- 45 [Lines: 'Hail to the Day']
- 46 To Miss Young, my dearest Amanda
- 47 [Lines: 'O you! For whom']
- 48 To George Lyttelton, Esq.
- 49 An Ode, on the Winter Solstice
- 50 Ode on Aeolus's Harp
- Close section End Matter
