Reflect ere death, call you away,To answer at the awful day;Your thousands cannot purchase life,But as you waste it cause you strife.Many a pang you’ve felt of late,I must pronounce you vile ingrate;By art you gain a Lady’s smile,Soon as acquired would her beguile;Careless the pangs a husband feel,To you I make this sad appeal;Was […]

Farewell ye partner of my woes, farewell!The finest language could but faintly tell,What I now feel in writing this adieu,What you must suffer when I’m far from you.There was a time when happiness my lot,I liv’d serenely in my little cot;No wicked thoughts did then disturb my rest,My children round me, by a father prest;No […]

On Receipt of a Letter, dated Sept. 26, 1806. I’ve read your letter o’er and o’er again,Happy to find you faithful do remain,Besides forgiveness; though too much I fear,I long have made you victim to despair.You say two years with fervency I stroveTo keep affection, constancy, and love;But soon as crosses came upon my mind,Was […]

Britons wept when they heard brave Nelson was wounded,Cried aloud when they knew that a ball pierced his heart;Yet it eas’d our distress to find him surrounded,By those friends he loved, when compell’d to depart. He requested to know the fate of the battle,If t’was likely that England would conquor that day;When they answer’d him […]