The Methodist (anonymously), Liverpool, 1819;
Sheffield Park: a descriptive poem, Sheffield, 1820; annotated 2nd ed. 1859;
The Cottage of Pella: a tale of Palestine, Sheffield, 1821;
The Village of Eyam: a poem, Macclesfield, 1821;
The Hopes of Matrimony, London and Sheffield, 1822; 2nd ed. 1836;
Flowers from Sheffield Park: a selection of poetical pieces originally published in the Sheffield Iris, London and Sheffield, 1827;
The Pleasures of Sight: a poem, Sheffield, 1829;
Tyne Banks: a poetical sketch by a visitor in Newcastle, Newcastle, 1832;
A Poet’s Gratulation, Sheffield, 1851;
Diurnal Sonnets: 366 poetical meditations on various subjects, personal, abstract and local, comprising several founded on the more striking festivals and observances of the Christian year, Sheffield, 1852.
- :::From Sheffield Park, stanzas LVII-LVIX
- :::When winter evening's cheerful tales conspire
- :::With the warm influence of a social fire,
- :::How seldom thinks the happy midnight guest
- :::Of the poor collier's brief and broken rest.
- :::Where chemic nature, from sulfureous ores,
- :::Her deadliest essence sublimates and stores -
- :::Combines these dire arcana to prepare
- :::Her noxious treasures of mephitic air,
- :::Each moment hovering round the miner's lamp
- :::To scorch or suffocate - the explosive damp;
- :::Above his head, while threatening rocks impend,
- :::Imprisoned spirits in their wombs contend:
- :::He delves his dungeon vault of living coal
- :::And hears the cataracts through the caverns roll,
- :::Careless with every stroke, or every breath,
- :::To rouse a danger or inhale a death.
- :::'Tis his to know, 'midst all that pity craves,
- :::The felon's task, the heritage of slaves,
- :::'Doomed to the mines', to dig for others' wealth,
- :::To earn subsistence, and to bury health -
- :::Bear from earth's noisesome depths, with perils rife,
- :::The curse, the comforts, or the bread of life.
- :::This a sad proof how vainly man hath built
- :::Pride's superstructure on a base of guilt;
- :::Of penal judgment this the unvarying mark,
- :::From far Potosi's mines to Sheffield Park.