James Thomson
Poet and playwright, 1700-1748
Cited as Thomson. — 116 quotations
Auriferous
Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays.
Avert
Cold and averting from our neighbor's good.
Beverage
He knew no beverage but the flowing stream.
Bicker
They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade.
Billowy
And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam.
Blast
And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.
Blotch
Foul scurf and blotches him defile.
Blushful
While from his ardent look the turning Spring Averts her blushful face.
Boreal
So from their own clear north in radiant streams, Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn.
Bright
From the brightest wines He 'd turn abhorrent.
Bull
At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the bright Bull receives him.
Celebrate
Earth, water, air, and fire, with feeling glee, Exult to celebrate thy festival.
Chastise
The gay, social sense, by decency chastised.
Chide
The chide of streams.
Clovered
Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale.
Cluster
Or from the forest falls the clustered snow.
Commove
Straight the sands, Commoved around, in gathering eddies play.
Compatriot
She [Britain] rears to freedom an undaunted race, Compatriot, zealous, hospitable, kind.
Concealment
The cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few.
Congeal
A vapory deluge lies to snow congealed.
Convene
Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene.
Converse
To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature.
Convert
The public hope And eye to thee converting.
Convolution
O'er the calm sea, in convolution swift, The feathered eddy floats.
Coo
The stockdove only through the forest cooes, Mournfully hoarse.
Copious
Kindly pours its copious treasures forth.
Correspondent
As fast the correspondent passions rise.
Dale
Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend.
Dan
What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.
Dash
On each hand the gushing waters play, And down the rough cascade all dashing fall.
Dawn
And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve.
Decline
In melancholy deep, with head declined.
Decoy
Did to a lonely cot his steps decoy.
Deform
Above those passions that this world deform.
Disembowel
Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold.
Dispread
While tyrant Heat, dispreading through the sky.
Dwindle
Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught.
Eddy
The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm.
Efflux
Prime cheerer, light! . . . Efflux divine.
Effulge
His eyes effulging a peculiar fire.
Elate
By the potent sun elated high.
Endearment
Her first endearments twining round the soul.
Eruptive
The sudden glance Appears far south eruptive through the cloud.
Eve
Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze.
Ferment
Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran.
Festive
The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall.
Forlorn
She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living.
Freak
Freaked with many a mingled hue.
Full-formed
The full-formed maids of Afric.
Glide
They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid glide, along the leaning line.
Granary
The exhaustless granary of a world.
Green
Great spring before Greened all the year.
Haul
Romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust.
Heave
The glittering, finny swarms That heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores.
Hedge
Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk.
Horn
The moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns.
Illume
The mountain's brow, Illumed with fluid gold.
Illusive
Truth from illusive falsehood to command.
Incrust
And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow, Incrusted hard.
Infuriate
Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath.
Infusive
The infusive force of Spirit on man.
Instantaneous
His reason saw With instantaneous view, the truth of things.
Junto
The puzzling sons of party next appeared, In dark cabals and mighty juntos met.
Keen
Cold winter keens the brightening flood.
King
But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the east
Life
Full nature swarms with life.
Lurid
Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
Mechanic
Sometimes he ply'd the strong, mechanic tool.
Moan
Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans.
Muse
Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
Ooze
The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass.
Patter
The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard.
Plenty
The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world.
Previous
The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth.
Protrude
When . . . Spring protrudes the bursting gems.
Renovate
All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter.
Retirement
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.
Revert
The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow.
Revertive
The tide revertive, unattracted, leaves A yellow waste of idle sands behind.
Robust
While romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust.
Romp
While romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust.
Rumination
Retiring full of rumination sad.
Rural
We turn To where the silver Thames first rural grows.
Seclude
Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven Seclude their bosom slaves.
Self
She was beauty's self.
Serene
Heaven and earth, as if contending, vie To raise his being, and serene his soul.
Servile
She must bend the servile knee.
Shock
Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks.
Shoot
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.
Site
The semblance of a lover fixed In melancholy site.
Skate
Batavia rushes forth; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is maddened all to joy.
Spout
All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting rills.
Step
Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold.
Stripe
Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes.
Stupid
With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood.
Suck
Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe.
Surly
Now softened into joy the surly storm.
Surprise
Who can speak The mingled passions that surprised his heart?
Swallow
Corruption swallowed what the liberal hand Of bounty scattered.
Swim
Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.
Terrace
Clermont's terraced height, and Esher's groves.
Texture
Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
Timid
Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare.
Tip
Tipped with jet, Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
Trill
The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
Typhon
The circling typhon whirled from point to point.
Unconcern
A listless unconcern, Cold, and averting from our neighbor's good.
Unused
Unused to bend, impatient of control.
Unutterable
Sighed and looked unutterable things.
vernal
When after the long vernal day of life.
Visionary
The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns.
Vista
The finished garden to the view Its vistas opens, and its alleys green.
Waft
In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains In one wide waft.
Well
From his two springs in Gojam's sunny realm, Pure welling out, he through the lucid lake Of fair Dambea rolls his infant streams.
Whisper
The hollow, whispering breeze.
Wind
And where the valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.