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Madmoments: or First Verseattempts

By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison
Ellison, Henry

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VOL. I.
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
  
MOCKHEROICKS
  
DEDICATION TO THE SPIRIT OF HUMANITY.
  
SUNSETTHOUGHT.
  
WHEREIN ALL MEN MAY BE GREAT.
  
ON OBTAINING THINGS BY GENTLE MEANS.
  
GREATNESS.
  
ON SEEING ALL THINGS IN THEIR TRUE LIGHT.
  
WONDERWORKING.
  
HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD PLEASANT.
  
WEEKDAY WONDERWORKING.
  
WEEKDAY WONDERS.
  
TRUE GREATNESS.
  
ON THE PLANET LUCIFER.
  
POVERTY.
  
ON FANCYDREAMERS WHO THINK REAL LIFE TOO COMMONPLACE FOR THEM.
  
NATURE.
  
TO CLARKSON, ON THE PASSING OF THE SLAVETRADEABOLITIONBILL.
  
THE STARS.
  
PRAYER.
  
NATURE.
  
ON BEING MUCH ALONE.
  
ON SIMPLE ENJOYMENTS.
  
SELFGREATNESS.
  
DAY-DREAMING.
  
WORLDGRATITUDE.
  
LIFE.
  
SUBMISSION TO PROVIDENCE.
  
STRONGFEELING.
  
TRUE GREATNESS.
  
SUNSETSCENE.
  
ON OVERSCRUPULOUS VIRTUE.
  
BLESSINGS.
  
ALL THINGS A HYMN TO GOD.
  
TRUE LIFEDEVELOPING.
  
ON INJURYBEARING.
  
ON USING IMAGINATION.
  
POVERTY, WHAT REALLY.
  
EVIL OF SUSPICIONS.
  
TRUE MIGHT.
  
MONEYTHIRST.
  
FREEDOM.
  
VILLAGEBELLS.
  
SEEMINGPOOR.
  
SUNSETTHOUGHT.
  
OVERSHARPSIGHTEDNESS.
  
SECONDTHOUGHTS ON THE ABOVE
  
TIME.
  
EVENINGTHOUGHT.
  
OBSERVE ALL THINGS CAREFULLY.
  
BOOKS.
  
ON A GRAVEBRINKSPORTING CHILD.
  
WISDOM
  
AGAINST PRIDE: ADDRESSED TO THE SPIRIT OF HUMANITY.
  
TO MILTON.
  
TO VENICE.
  
LAWS.
  
ON NAPOLEON.
  
AN EVENINGSTORM.
  
HOW TO ENJOY THE WHOLE.
  
WESTMINSTERABBEY.
  
THE ALLHALLOWING POWER OF THE HEART.
  
CHURCHYARDTHOUGHTS.
  
TO DANTE.
  
CHILDREN.
  
WHAT MAKES US RICH.
  
TO COLOGNE CATHEDRAL.
  
TO THE SPIRIT OF HUMANITY.
  
WISDOM.
  
ON HEARING AN ELDTIME SONG.
  
AN UNBRIDLED FANCYBURST, OR PRELUDE TO A DEATHTALE.
  
TO MILTON.
  
THE ALPROSE.
  
THE DAYSEYE.
  
ON THE ROADSIDESEATS IN PARTS OF GERMANY.
  
TO THE GENTIAN.
  
HOME.
  
A NIGHTSTORMSEASCENE!
  
SABBATHBELLS.
  
THE ART OF ENJOYMENT.
  
A PASSING THOUGHT.
  
TRUE REFORM.
  
THE POETSHARP.
  
THE HOUR OF HOMEPARTING TOLD BY A CHURCHCLOCK.
  
ON A FLOWERWORRED STONETABLE.
  
THOUGHT.
  
THE WISH.
  
AN ODE,
  
MONEYSTANDARDS.
  
ON THE APOLLO BELVEDERE.
  
ON READING TWO SONNETS ONE WRIT IN YOUTH, AND THE OTHER IN AGE, ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
  
MAN AND NATURE.
  
TO A FRIEND.
  
THE RAINBOW.
  
SEASUNSETSCENE.
  
WEALTHCOVETERS.
  
SUGGESTED BY THE FIRST FRENCH REVOLUTION.
  
RAILROADTRAVELLING.
  
TO MILTON.
  
EVENINGTHOUGHTS.
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VOL. II.

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WHEREIN ALL MEN MAY BE GREAT.

The greatest Man is not so great, but we
May imitate him, so far as he is
A Man; for to be quite a Man, this, this
Is in the Reach of all! however He be,
In Wealth, Power, Genius, raised above us, He
Is but our equal as a Man; nay his
Best Glory is to be so! let him miss
This brightest Crown of true Humanity,
And he is no more Great! in doing Good,
None need be little, for the Poorest can
Give most, tho' but the crust which is his Food!
And He whom Fancy with her Rainbowspan
Made first of Poets, by a pure Heart could
Be, and was, something more; He was, a Man.
 

Alluding to Milton, who was greater as a man, than as a Poet.

Here used for Imagination.

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