Poems (1828‪)‬

Love and Ambition are dismissed with a weary “away! away!”—but when Advice objects to a third bottle, Thomas Gent has another answer: “Smile, and partake it, if you will.”

Published in 1828, Poems moves between private sorrow and public memory, in the many moods of an early-nineteenth-century poet: a sailor keeping watch beneath the moon, the unmarked grave of Dibdin, a flower faithful only to sunshine, and beauty shadowed by madness. Gent writes by turns with wit, ardour and tenderness, weighing what remains when youth, fame or reason falters. His speakers praise courage and love, challenge ambition, and search for solace in an uncertain human life. These are poems of a mind turning from one fragile consolation to another. Which, if any, can withstand the dark?

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