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Poem by Samuel Johnson
Song
Not the soft sighs of vernal gales,
The fragrance of the flowery vales,
The murmurs of the crystal rill,
The vocal grove, the verdant hill;
Not all their charms, though all unite,
Can touch my bosom with delight.
Not all the gems on India's shore,
Not all Peru's unbounded store,
Not all the power, nor all the fame,
That heroes, kings, or poets claim;
Nor knowledge which the learn'd approve,
To form one wish my soul can move.
Yet Nature's charms allure my eyes,
And knowledge, wealth, and fame I prize;
Fame, wealth, and knowledge I obtain,
Nor seek I Nature's charms in vain;
In lovely Stella all combine,
And, lovely Stella! thou art mine.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson's other poems:- To Myrtilis - The New Year's Offering
- To Mrs. Thrale on Her Completing Her Thirty-Fifth Year
- Parody of a Translation from the Medea of Euripides
- To Miss --
- On Lyce - An Elderly Lady
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
Charlotte Mew Song ("Love love to-day, my dear") John Davidson Song ("THE boat is chafing at our long delay") Percy Shelley Song ("Rarely, rarely, comest thou") George Etherege Song ("LADIES, though to your conquering eyes") Edgar Poe Song ("I saw thee on thy bridal day") 1827Bryan Procter Song ("Here's a health to thee, Mary") Bayard Taylor Song ("NOW the days are brief and drear") Mary Chudleigh Song ("Why, Damon, why, why, why so pressing?") Isaac Bickerstaffe Song ("How happy were my days, till now") George Lyttelton Song ("When Delia on the plain appears") 1732Philip Massinger Song ("Why art thou slow, thou rest of trouble, Death") Hilaire Belloc Song ("Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year") Amy Lowell Song ("Oh! To be a flower") Elinor Wylie Song ("It is my thoughts that colour") Mary Montagu Song ("How happy is the harden'd heart") Emma Lazarus Song ("Frosty lies the winter-landscape") Richard Sheridan Song ("Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen") George Crabbe Song ("Cease to bid me not to sing") Anna Seward Song ("FROM thy waves, stormy Llannon, I fly") Aubrey De Vere Song ("HIS war-horse beats a distant bourne") Edith Nesbit Song ("NOW the Spring is waking") Maria Lowell Song ("O BIRD, thou dartest to the sun") William Monkhouse Song ("WHO calls me bold because I won my love") Eliza Acton Song ("Give me gay music !—we will not dwell") Thomas Eliot Song ("If space and time, as sages say") 1907Christina Rossetti Song ("O roses for the flush of youth") Irwin Ginsberg Song ("The weight of the world") 1954
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