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Poems Written in Close Confinement in The Tower and Newgate

Under a Charge of High Treason. By John Thelwall

Thelwall, John (1764-1834)

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I.

SONNET I. THE FEELINGS OF A PARENT.

II.

SONNET II. TO TYRANNY.

III.

SONNET III. TO LUXURY.

IV.

SONNET IV. TO SIMPLICITY OF MANNERS.

V.

SONNET V. THE SOURCE OF SLAVERY.

VI.

SONNET VI. TO ANCESTRY.

VII.

SONNET VII. THE VANITY OF NATIONAL GRANDEUR.

VIII.

SONNET VIII. ON THE REPORT OF THE DEATH OF THOMAS MUIR, ON BOARD THE SURPRISE, IN HIS PASSAGE TO BOTANY BAY.

IX.

SONNET IX. THE CELL.

X.

SONNET X. TO THOMAS HARDY, ON HIS CONDUCT ON THE DAY OF HIS ACQUITTAL.

XI.

SONNET XI. THE PHŒNIX.

XII.

SONNET XII. THE CRISIS.

I.

ODE I. THE UNIVERSAL DUTY.

II.

NELLY's COMPLAINT.

STANZAS ON HEARING FOR CERTAINTY THAT WE WERE TO BE TRIED FOR HIGH TREASON.

STANZAS ON HAPPINESS.

STANZAS, WRITTEN ON THE MORNING OF TRIAL, TO THE FOUR PRISONERS LIBERATED ON THE SAME DAY.

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Poems Written in Close Confinement in The Tower and Newgate

Under a Charge of High Treason. By John Thelwall

John Thelwall

1764-1834

Printed for the Author, And sold by J. Ridgway ... H. D. Symonds ... and D. I. Eaton [etc.]

London

1795