Poems by James Montgomery (1771 - 1854)
- A Sea-Piece
- A Voyage Round the World
- A Voyage Round the World - Greenland
- Battle of Unterwalden
- Brunnen
- Canada
- Cape of Storms
- China and Japan
- Dale Abbey
- Discovery of the Antilles
- Fairest Isle
- Greece
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Judah Forlorn
- Kamchatka
- Labrador
- Lines Written under a Drawing of Yardley Oak
- Not the France of Yore
- Pelican Island
- Pennsylvania
- Philippines
- Pillars of Hercules
- Roman Genius
- St Helena
- Stanz
- Straits of Magellan
- The Battle of Alexandria
- The Patriot's Password
- The Peak Mountain
- West Indies
James Montgomery was born in Scotland but was educated in Yorkshire, eventually making his home in Sheffield. He worked there as a journalist, sometimes getting into trouble with the authorities for radical articles. He grew up a Moravian and all his life worked as a missionary and pastor for the sect.
The poet and preacher James Montgomery. In his Voyage Around the World he was a trailblazer of poetic geography, mapping a global circumnavigation in poetr. Many of his poems about places are in the Poetry Atlas.