Alphabetical List (Poems and Songs)


  1. A fragment
  2. A long farewell
  3. A new song
  4. A new song for Barge- Day, 1835
  5. A new song on the opening of the Newcastle and North Shields Railway
  6. A scene at sea; written at midnight
  7. A song - for 1835 Barge Day
  8. A sonnet
  9. A sonnet
  10. A steam boat voyage
  11. A voice was heard from Zion’s Hill
  12. A Voyage to Lunnin
  13. Addressed to Miss S.B. of Newcastle
  14. An acoustical song
  15. Anti-antiquarianism
  16. April gowk, or the lovers alarmed
  17. Ascension Day
  18. Bear club
  19. Blind Willie's epitaph
  20. Blind Willie singing
  21. Bold Archy and Blind Willie's lament on the death of Capt. Starkey
  22. Bold Archy drowned
  23. By Babel's streams we saw and wept
  24. Composed on a ruinous edifice
  25. David and Goliath
  26. Distrustful of a faithful heart
  27. England, Ho!
  28. Fairwell, fairest Sena
  29. Farewell, false beloved
  30. Farewell! o faithless lover
  31. Farewel! the faithless death is past
  32. Farewell to the Tyn
  33. Farewell ye streams
  34. Fragmenta
  35. Garetta of the Tyne
  36. Give me that scene, when the pale moon is rising
  37. Gothalbert and Hisanna
  38. Herbage Committee
  39. How often the look
  40. Humble Petition of the Old House in the Shield-Field to John Clayton, Esq
  41. I have beheld thy polished brow
  42. I will forget those hours of bliss
  43. In darkness veiled, behold yon ruins grey
  44. In vain the scented woodbine twines
  45. Jesmond Dean
  46. Lament of Phineas's wife
  47. Lament on the death of Captain Starkey
  48. Let Envy sneer, and Pride presume
  49. Lines
  50. Lines addressed to an infant
  51. Lines addressed to Master C.H.
  52. Lines caused by the death of Mr Aynsley, of Great Babington
  53. Lines inscribed to Mr William Garrett, president of the Loyal Northumbrian Social Society, Newcastle
  54. Lines on the death of Rev.. John Smith, Vicar of Newcastle
  55. Lines on Gibside
  56. Lines on seeing a funeral, at which none were present as mourners
  57. Lines to Mr. Wm. Vasey, on reaing his effusion to Eliza
  58. Lines to the memory of Mr. Nicholas Corbitt
  59. Lines written in a country alehouse
  60. Lovely Mary
  61. Mine only beloved, the last and the best
  62. More innovations
  63. Mountain daisies
  64. My love's the sweetest flower
  65. My love was as the blossoms gay
  66. Near Ravensworth, sweet Harry dwells
  67. New song for Barge Day
  68. Northumberland free o’newcassel
  69. Now the sun, his course beginning
  70. Nuptial song
  71. O say, love, wilt thou leave me
  72. O tell me, ye groves
  73. O think of our joys
  74. Oh! Sad was the hour
  75. On a flask
  76. On a late accident at sea
  77. On a young gentleman who died abroad
  78. On Neil Gow’s rural seat
  79. On popularity
  80. On Ravensworth Castle
  81. On seeing the field of Otterburn
  82. On slander
  83. On St. Nicholas Church, Newcastle upon Tyne
  84. On the approach of Winter
  85. On the Battle of Waterloo
  86. On the death of an infant
  87. On the death of Bold Archy, who died 14 May 1828
  88. On the death of Charles John Brandling, Esq.
  89. On the death of old Thomas Porteus, R.N.
  90. On the death of ____
  91. On the King's birthday, June 4th 1818
  92. On the ruins of Benwell
  93. On the ruins of Jesmond Monastery
  94. On war
  95. Pandon Dean (1776)
  96. Pandon Dean
  97. Poor Jackey, the Howdon Pans Fifer
  98. Ruthbert and Anna
  99. Ruthbert and his Cockle Shell
  100. Sad is this heart, my Love
  101. Say, thus can'st thou leave me
  102. Say, wilt thou weep
  103. Seek not in words
  104. Should England’s proud foes with a vain gasconade
  105. Sir Tommy made an Odd Fellow
  106. Song of improvements
  107. Sonnet on the death of Grace Darling
  108. Sonnet on the shortest day
  109. Sonnet to Miss Grace Horsley Darling – The preserver of the passengers saved from the wreck of the Forfarshire steam-packet
  110. Sonnet to Miss Mary Newly
  111. Sonnet to _____
  112. Stanzas addressed to ____
  113. Stanzas
  114. Stanzas
  115. Stanzas
  116. Stanzas. Composed on the 25th of October 
  117. Stanzas to Miss ____
  118. Suggested by the death of an infant daughter
  119. Sweet Fanny, the flower of Loraine
  120. Sweet is the morn when drowsy mist
  121. Sweet Lily of the blooming vale
  122. The adieu!
  123. The Amphitrite
  124. The birth-day of Queen Victoria
  125. The confession of a barber and a t-vender
  126. The collier’s keek at the nation
  127. The corn market
  128. The death of Ismir
  129. The Eighth of September
  130. The Falls of Gilmorah
  131. The flower of the Wear
  132. The freedom of election
  133. The humble petition of the old house in the Shield Field – to Mr. W. Foggin
  134. The lamentation of the death of Captain Starkey
  135. The last farewel
  136. The look of the maid said her heart was riven
  137. The loss of the Ovington
  138. The Old House
  139. The orphans
  140. The Prince of Bards sleeps in his last repose
  141. The prostitute
  142. The quack doctors
  143. The rose of England
  144. The scented vale
  145. The skippers erudition (The Amphitrite)
  146. The sleeping city
  147. The sons of Apollo!
  148. The sons of Tyne, Northumbria makes her boast
  149. The stranger
  150. The three sisters
  151. The throbbing accents of the heart’s Beloved
  152. The Vale of Nent
  153. There is an end to every vain pursuit
  154. Think not the sigh that speaks of woe
  155. Thinkest thou that the sigh which would faintly reprove thee
  156. To a young lady
  157. To an illegitimate child on the day of its birth
  158. To an old coat
  159. To Anna
  160. To Garetta
  161. To Jane
  162. To my lamp
  163. To Scotland
  164. To sena
  165. To the memory of Mr. William Hardy, Gateshead, who died May 2, 1828, aged 28 Years
  166. To the memory of the late Archibald Reed, Esq.
  167. To the Tyne
  168. To ____
  169. Tommy Thompson
  170. Verses, composed on hearing the unfortunate Miss A______ singing
  171. Verses on a plant reared by a lady, and which died in consequence of bearing so much blossom 
  172. Verses on the Tanfield Arch, in the County of Durham
  173. Verses suggested by seeing a funeral at which none were present as mourners
  174. When friends meet by chance, who long parted have been
  175. When Jesse’s Son first struck the lyre
  176. Willie Banks
  177. Written at midnight, during a storm
  178. Written at sea
  179. Written at sea, on the morning of the Sabbath day
  180. Written at the tomb of Cunningham, in St. John’s Church-Yard, Newcastle
  181. Written beneath a portrait of Dr Jenner, the illustrious discoverer of vaccination
  182. Written in an album