The Day of Doom / A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment: With Other Poems

Religious poem describing the Day of Judgment, on which a vengeful God judges and sentences all men.

The author of this book, whose wand had summoned up such images of terror, was neither a cynic nor a misanthrope, though sickness, which generally brings out these dispositions where they exist, had long been his doom. His attenuated frame and feeble health were joined to genial manners; and, though subject to fits of despondency, he seems generally to have maintained a cheerful temper, so much so that some of his friends believed his ills to be imaginary.