John Wilson

1785 - 1854

General Sir John Wilson (1780–1856) was a British Army officer who served in the Peninsular War, and was acting Governor of British Ceylon in 1831.

Poems

CANTO FIRST.
CANTO SECOND.
CANTO THIRD.
CANTO FOURTH.
END OF THE ISLE OF PALMS.
THE ANGLER'S TENT.
THE HERMITAGE.
LINES WRITTEN ON READING THE MEMOIRS OF MISS SMITH.
HYMN TO SPRING
MELROSE ABBEY.
EXTRACT FROM AN UNFINISHED POEM, ENTITLED “THE HEARTH.”
THE FRENCH EXILE.