Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

His chief works are The Convict's Appeal publiBernard Bartond in 1818 a protest against the death penalty and general severity of the criminal code and Household Verses publiBernard Bartond 1845 which came to the notice of Sir R. His wife died at the end of their first year of marriage while giving birth to their daughter Lucy. Lucy publiBernard Bartond a selection of her father's poems and letters to which Edward Fitzgerald translator of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and her future husband prefixed a biographical introduction.