Poetry
List of titles of all poems on the site sorted by category.
- A Sequence of Sonnets
- Alone
- Approach of Summer
- Ascension
- Beyond
- Blind Beauty
- Bonfire Night
- Calvary
- Cat
- Chess
- Child in the Dust
- Cronk Sumark
- Festivity
- Gorse
- June Afterglow
- Library
- Looking towards South Barrule
- Man the Artist
- Music at Night
- No Quick Way
- North or South?
- Not your Proud Anger
- Oasis
- Omega and Alpha
- On Seeing a Neglected Child Crying Outside a Public Bar
- On Tap
- Pain
- Passing Thoughts on Ember Day
- Pause
- Proof
- Sandygate Lily-pool
- Seagull
- Seaward
- Sly Treason
- Sulby River
- Sunbathing
- That Heaven of Freedom
- The Place of First Love
- The Post
- This Fair Land
- Thoughts at Santon Gorge
- To My Alarm Clock
- Trout
- Two Sisters
- Vintage
- When?
- Why Death?
- Winter
- Zoo
- A Spirit in the Glens
- A Secret Glen
- A Spirit in the Glens
- At Bluebell Time
- At Bluebell Time
- Auldyn Cuckoo
- Ballure
- Bel Abbey Glen
- Bishop’s Glen (Bishopscourt)
- Bishopscourt
- Colby Glen
- Crogga Glen
- Dhoon
- Elfin Glen
- Fern Glen
- Garwick
- Glen Helen
- Glen Lough
- Glen Wyllin
- In Glen Maye
- In Glen Roy
- In Gleneedle
- In Groudle Glen
- Moon over Cornaa
- Morning in Spring
- Nature’s Innocence
- Near Glen Darragh
- Orrisdale
- Rhenass Falls
- Stars at Santon Gorge
- Summer Hill Glen
- The Glens are Old
- Tholt-Y-Will
- Ballads of the Ballamooar
- A Cooish
- Crebbin’s Cows
- Fallen Tree
- From South Barool
- Haunted House
- I Remember a Maiden
- Lowly Company
- Milkmaid Liza
- Nettles
- Pulling Grass
- Rain
- Reverie
- Stiff-Cart Ride
- Stinnerry
- The Ballamooar
- The Crippled Singer
- The Empty House
- The Flying Coachman
- The Man of the Hills
- The Old Gossip
- The Preacher
- The Preacher and the Phynnoderee
- The Spectre of Colby Glen
- The Tramp’s Bed
- When All Is Quiet
- Final Poem
- Island Creeks
- Lore and Legend
- Lyrics by Lamplight
- Lyrics by Lamplight (Collection from booklet)
- 01. Lyrics by Lamplight
- 02. Homing from Ballagrainey
- 03. The Song of the Tree
- 04. Eairy Dam
- 05. The Maid of Dhoon Glen
- 06. Lyric for Linda
- 07. Invitation
- 08. Night in Foxdale
- 09. Curlew
- 10. Sunrise over Douglas Bay
- 11. The Boat In The Farmyard
- 12. The Churchyard, Old Braddan
- 13. Nocturne
- 14. The Crocus
- 15. Lily Pool at Sandygate
- 16. Heard in a Garden
- 17. If He Sees Not
- 18. Folklore
- 19. Fallen Tree
- 20. Two Worlds
- 21. Colby Afternoon
- 22. The Country Life
- 23. Summer in Sulby
- 24. Wood Smoke
- 25. Only a Book
- 26. Come your Ways in
- 27. Thoughts Beside the River Neb
- 28. Draw the Curtains
- 29. Awake
- 30. Thoughts in the Small Hours
- 31. Delight
- 32. Moths
- 33. The Truant Soul
- 34. Orrisdale
- 35. Cass-ny-Hawin
- 36. Mist at Fleshwick
- 37. The Lilacs of Lindale
- 38. On Sailing from Douglas at Sunset
- 39. When the Lamp is Out
- 40. The Dear Departed
- 41. When all is Quiet
- 42. Deserted Beach
- Lyrics by Lamplight (from the Weekly Times)
- A Mourned Day
- A Symphony of Seasons
- Country Chapel
- Country Song
- Dedication
- Drowsiness
- Evening
- Folk Dance Festival
- Gazing on Douglas Bay
- Glen Spell
- Greatness
- Home Thoughts from the City
- Honeysuckle
- Lyric for a Special Birthday
- Old Mill-Wheel
- Pastoral Lyric
- Revelation
- Senses
- Summer and Winter
- Supreme Artist
- The Cross by the Sea
- The Destructive Winds of Summer
- The Infinite Content
- The Life Unseen
- The Lyrical Streams of Mann
- The Song of the Hermit
- The Whole Self
- To a Pantheist
- To the Carnation
- Whether or No
- Lyrics by Lamplight (Collection from booklet)
- Manx Hamlets
- Poems for Heather
- All Fools’ Day
- Birthday Ode
- Disappointment
- February 8th
- February Transformed
- For Heather, One Year Old
- Glen Lough
- Goodbye to the Ward
- Hospital Corridor
- Leaving for Hospital
- Letter to Heather
- Lifted from Bed
- Little Young Lady
- Nature’s Innocence
- The Christening
- The Empty House
- The Princess who wore Spectacles
- Thirteenth Carol for Heather
- Thoughts of a Little Girl in War-time
- To Heather on her Seventh Birthday
- To You
- Shingle
- A Brown Song
- A Secret Glen
- A Song for the Nation
- A Summer Vision
- Above Langness at Sundown
- Aerystain after the Rain
- Afloat
- Air Hostess
- An Old Man of the Hills
- Away beyond
- Beyond
- Cave Dwelling
- Chances Missed
- Christmas Eve at St John’s
- Conformity
- Festivity
- Going to the Fair
- Horses at Dusk
- Impulsiveness
- Long Long Ago
- Mary Ann
- Mother
- Mother Island
- No More
- Oil Well
- Palm Sunday
- Piano Rain
- Premature Harvest
- Sad Eyes
- Sea Spell
- Shingle
- Silverdale
- St Michael’s Chapel
- The Crippled Singer
- The Fairy Child
- The Roads at Night
- The Tramp’s Bed
- Tholt-Y-Will
- To Tom Brown, our Poet
- When All Is Quiet
- Whistling in the Dark
- Sonnets in a New Style
- A Drowned Bridge
- A Vision from the Sea
- Above Langness at Sundown
- An Old Kissing Gate
- Approach of Summer
- April Fool
- Aquarium
- Beyond Recall
- Blackberries
- Carnival
- Child in Hospital
- Conister
- Death in the Pit
- Delphiniums
- Departure from the Airport
- Derbyhaven – Harbour of Peace
- Donkeys on the Sand
- Driving at Night
- February Transformed
- Fishermen
- Good Friday
- Hands
- Harvest Moon
- In Memoriam: M.E.C. (Mary Ellen Cowell)
- Lux Domi
- Mount Strange
- Night’s Sacrament
- On the Green
- Plane at Night
- Question
- Ready for Departure
- Red
- Rock Pool
- Royal Birth
- Seagull Picnic
- Storm in the Wood
- The Artist’s Reality (Archie Knox)
- The Chasms
- The Do-It-Yourself Doctrine
- The Enigma of a Child
- The Magnificat (A paraphrase)
- The New Morality
- The Vegetable Cart
- The Water Mill
- To a Modern Guy Fawkes
- To a Skylark!
- To the Manx Poet Thomas Edward Brown
- Tourist Trophy Races
- Tourist Trophy Races
- Watersmeet
- Where Beauty Dwells
- Wood Smoke
- The Gaffer’s Tales
- Brit’s Foal
- Convarsion;
or Shooting Rooks with the Divil - Fifty Years Ago
- Jinny an’ her Toe
- The Gaffer
- The Gaffer an’ Bonfires
- The Gaffer an’ Christmas
- The Gaffer an’ the Horse Trams
- The Gaffer an’ the Lil Injins
- The Gaffer an’ the Minis
- The Gaffer an’ the Piano Recital
- The Gaffer an’ the Queen
- The Gaffer at a Harvest Festival
- The Gaffer at a Jumble Sale
- The Gaffer at an Anniversary
- The Gaffer at the Cattle Show
- The Gaffer at the Eisteddfod
- The Gaffer at the Laxey Wheel
- The Gaffer at the Tourist Trophy Races
- The Gaffer Looks Back
- The Gaffer on Manx Radio
- The Gaffer Remembers with his nose
- The Gaffer Sails to Dublin
- The Gaffer’s View on Punishment
- Willie the Gimlad
- Unpublished Poems
- Vol 1: Pebbles on the Beach
- A Ballad of Christmas
- A Last Wish
- A Pig for Sale
- A Simple Country Prayer
- A Wet Day
- At the Top of the House
- Butterfly
- Dawn
- Death of Mary
- Doreen to her Brother
- Erystain Promenade
- Fallen Tree
- Folklore
- Funeral Hymn of the Water Bull
- Grandfather Clock
- Hale’s Fire
- Humble Lover
- I Remember a Maiden
- I Saw Thee Weep
- If He Sees Not
- If We Despair
- Insects and Other Creatures
- Inspiration
- Last Chapter of ‘Ecclesiastes’
- Lucernia: First Song
- Lucernia: Second Song
- Mannanin Beg’s Isle
- Milk Maid Annie
- Nocturne
- Noel
- On the Death of an Uncle
- Paraphrase of the 23rd Psalm
- Pebbles on the Beach
- Prologue to a Drama (the King speaks)
- Reverie
- Rosemary
- Shingle
- Silver Lune: First Song
- Silver Lune: Second Song
- Silver Lune: Third Song
- Sleeping Muse
- Songs of the Night
- Steinnery
- Sunday Afternoon Walk
- Sunrise
- Swing in the Barn
- Th’oul Bachelor
- The Ballamoar
- The Crippled Singer
- The Empty House
- The Haunted House
- The Old Man of Barrule
- The Passing of Balder
- The Preacher
- The Primrose
- The Princess: First Song
- The Princess: More Songs
- The Princess: Last Song
- The Ship and the Man: 1. The Ship
- The Ship and the Man: 2. The Main
- The Ship and the Man: 3. The Redemption
- The Toy Cannon
- The Wolf Rocks
- To a Bee
- To a Nightingale
- To Castletown in a Stiff-Cart
- Visitors
- Whether or no
- Vol 2: The Boat in the Farmyard and other poetry
- A Rainy Day
- Anna Moyra
- Broken Bell
- Called I Thee Fair
- Castle Rushen
- Close of Day
- Cupid at Play
- December
- Deep in the Memories of Long Ago
- Early Morning – I General
- Early Morning in the Country- II
- Early Morning in the Snow – IV
- Early Morning in the Town – III
- Elegy in a Dismal Schoolroom
- Erystain after Rain
- Failure
- Fire Fancies
- Foxdale Eve
- Foxdale Stream
- From the Lowliest
- House Fever
- Isle of Man
- Lament for a Language
- Lines in Spenserian Stanza
- Lines to a Little Boy on Christmas Day
- Love’s Fever
- Man’s Limitations
- Morn from the East
- Mountain Tarn
- Noble Sixth Form
- November
- October
- Odelet
- On Hearing Spohr
- On Reaching my Seventeenth Birthday
- On the Passing of One Unknown
- Our Baby
- Paraphrase of Psalm 47
- Paraphrase of the Hundredth Psalm
- Peel Castle
- Puny Man
- Sixth Form Dirge
- Solace
- Storm along Castletown Front
- Summer Night
- The Boat in the Farmyard
- The Choosing
- The Dead Son
- The Epitaph
- The Lay of a Lost Bard
- The Man of Maths
- The Marsh
- The Pioneer
- The Rainbow
- The Sunset
- The Tramp’s Bed – I
- The Tramp’s Bed – II
- The Twelve thirty Express
- The Wail of the Dalton Sufferers
- To a Jackdaw
- To Death
- To Her
- To Keats
- To Mary
- To Shakespeare
- Tom Brown
- Whispering Spirits
- Written in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poems
- Written on the Fly-leaf of William Cowper’s Poems
- Written on the Last Page of a Book of Keats’s Poems
- Vol 3: Driftwood & Seawrack
- A Time for Everything
- A Wedding
- Cobbler Cain
- Desultory Verses
- Eleven Days
- From the Gallery
- Gno Yh Noo: Prologue
- How I Carried A.G. from Douglas to Castletown
- In Retrospect
- In the Beginning
- Inscription for Paddy’s Tomb
- Iowemma: Canto I
- Iowemma: Canto II
- Iowemma: Canto III
- Iowemma: Canto IV
- Katrina and Ramion
- Lines for Albums
- Nine Limericks
- Nocturnal Incident
- On a Gamp that Belonged to the Pompous Dook
- Outings
- Paradise Recalled
- Puncsetawny
- Songs of Nature
- Sundays
- The Blacksmith
- The Game’s Slave
- The Gay Caballero
- The Lesser Lamp
- The Lure of the Wireless
- The Master and the Students
- The Parable of the Trees
- The Poet’s Calendar
- The Removal
- The Rocks at Peel
- The Scene Lad
- The Tavern Tales: Prologue
- The Tavern Tales: The Squire’s Tale
- The Villain Biff Smith
- We Fear Thy Words
- Yn Tarroo Ushtey: Prologue
- Yn Tarroo Ushtey: The Water Bull
- Vol 4: Putting Out to Sea & Other Poems
- Amen
- Ballagrainey in the Trees
- Castle Rushen
- Collegia – Ode 1: Westminster
- Collegia – Ode 2: Darling George
- Collegia – Ode 3: Knock, Knock, Knock!
- Collegia – Ode 5: On Receiving an Extra Exam
- Collegia – Ode 6: The Training
- Collegia – Ode 7: The Spring
- Collegia – Ode 8: Untidy Gale
- Collegia – Ode 9: Nous Mangeons
- Collegia – Ode 10: One Little Month
- Collegia – Ode 11: Dejection and Hope
- Collegia – Ode 12: Artie’s Remedie
- Collegia – Ode 13: September 19th, 1927
- Collegia – Ode 14: Laundry Night
- Collegia – Ode 15: On the Broadcasting
- Collegia – Ode 16: The Library
- Collegia – Ode 17: The Last Post
- Collegia – Ode 18: The Chemistry Lab
- Collegia – Ode 19: The Return
- Collegia – Ode 20: Artie and Willie
- Collegia – Ode 21: Lullaby
- Collegia – Ode 22: Why are We Here?
- Collegia – Ode 23: The Dream
- Collegia – Ode 24: The First Morning
- Collegia – Ode 25: I Thought of Thee
- Collegia – Ode 26: I Plucked an Apple
- Collegia – Ode 27: The Face
- Collegia – Ode 28: Graue Aash
- Collegia – Ode 29: Memories
- Collegia – Ode 30: To Bed
- Collegia – Ode 31: Accents
- Collegia – Ode 32: Usual Toil
- Collegia – Ode 33: Songs from a Dream
- Collegia – Ode 34: Knocking Up
- Collegia – Ode 35: Libby League
- Collegia – Ode 36: Study
- Collegia – Ode 37: Hard is the Way of the Wicked
- Collegia – Ode 38: Another Fine Day
- Collegia – Ode 40: The Rub-It-Out or ‘Ome I Came
- Collegia – Ode 41: Liverish Limericks
- Collegia – Ode 42: May Day
- Collegia – Ode 43: After Tea-time
- Collegia – Ode 44: Abou’ Ben Heppell
- Collegia – Ode 45: The Child of the Storm
- Collegia – Ode 46: Bluster
- Collegia – Ode 47: The Killer
- Courage
- Death of Haig
- Full Tide
- Good Friday
- Grammar
- Morning in Spring
- Mud
- On a Favourite Bold-gus splashed with the Mud of the Grammar School
- Padjer (Prayer)
- Premonition
- Putting Out to Sea
- Reck We His Cat
- Term End
- The Bell
- The Cross by the Sea
- The End of the World
- The Isle of the Sea
- The Laugh and the Smile
- The Mochyn Dhoo
- The Night I Dreamed
- The Sarcastic Master
- The Sculptor’s Lament
- The Song of the Gun
- The Song of the Maiden
- The Unchanging Earth
- To –
- To Georgina
- To Pippa
- Who Nose?
- Ye Desparynge Studente
- Vol 5: Sea Spell & Other Poems
- A Spirit in the Glens: Colby Glen
- Aalid
- Beautiful Night
- Blind Quest
- Carnival
- Collegia – Ode 48: First Play
- Collegia – Ode 49: There’s a Little Cottage
- Collegia – Ode 50: The Introduction or Crack a Rib
- Collegia – Ode 51: Alma Mater
- Collegia – Ode 52: My Room Mate
- Collegia – Ode 53: Crystal
- Collegia – Ode 54: Jenny
- Collegia – Ode 55: Molly
- Collegia – Ode 56: Ruth
- Collegia – Ode 57: Bubbles
- Collegia – Ode 58: Dayspring
- Collegia – Ode 59: Thoughts in the Library during a Shortage of Chairs
- Collegia – Ode 60: Lucid or Lurid?
- Collegia – Ode 61: A Spring Morn
- Collegia – Ode 62: Spring
- Collegia – Ode 63: Fog
- Collegia – Ode 64: A Morning Walk
- Collegia – Ode 64: Epistle to a Passer-by
- Collegia – Ode 65: The Smoke of my Soul
- Collegia – Ode 66: Epistle to Jock
- Collegia – Ode 68: Solace in Dreamland
- Collegia – Ode 69: Band Ballads
- Collegia – Ode 70: Livid Limericks
- Collegia – Ode 71: Food
- Collegia – Ode 72: Prinny’s Pursuit
- Collegia – Ode 73: Surface Tension
- Collegia – Ode 74: To the Cook
- Collegia – Ode 75: The Garden Party
- Collegia – Ode 77: The Doom
- Collegia – Ode 78: Serenade
- Collegia – Ode 79: Evening Chapel
- Collegia – Ode 79: London Rain
- Collegia – Ode 80: Foxdale Stream
- Collegia – Ode 81: The Portrayal of the Hideous Idol of Dunsany
- Collegia – Ode 82: My Days, My thoughts, My Hopes
- Collegia – Ode 83: The Saturdays of college
- Collegia – Ode 84: To Sleep
- Collegia – Ode 85: Doctor Richard
- Collegia – Ode 86: Home Thoughts from the City
- Collegia – Ode 87: To Arthur
- Collegia – Ode 88: Of One Remembered Wistfully
- Collegia – Ode 89: English Notes
- Eairy Dam
- First Snow
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 1: Saturday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 2: Sunday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 3: Monday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 4: Tuesday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 5: Wednesday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 6: Thursday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 7: Friday
- Foxdale Camp: Canto 7: Saturday (Second)
- Fugitive Music
- Glenfaba Mill-Wheel
- Gorse Buds
- Illiam and Catreena
- Leaving
- Looking Back on Vectis
- Loss
- Lost Friend
- Mill-Wheel Hunt
- Morning
- New Year’s Day in the Glen
- Ode to the Island King
- Old Grandmothers’ Tales
- On the Finding of a Skeleton
- Returning at Night through the Glen
- Rizpah Rood and Tun
- Sea Call
- Sea Spell
- Sea Vision
- Shadow Falls
- Soil
- Stella Thoughts
- The Ballad of a Bell
- The End of the Twenties
- The Fisherman
- The Fishes in Dhy
- The Song of the Hermit
- To Browning
- Unless
- We Two
- Westminster Cathedral Tower
- Vol 1: Pebbles on the Beach