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The Harp of Erin

Containing the Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Dermody. In Two Volumes
Dermody, Thomas (1775-1802)

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VOL. I.
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VOL. II.
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BATTLE OF THE BARDS.
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THE RETROSPECT.
  
A DEDICATORY SONNET
  
THE RETROSPECT.
  
THE MOURNER.
  
THE POWERS OF PAINTING.
  
THE SOLDIER'S ABSENCE, AND RETURN.
  
THE POOR SCHOLAR.
  
THE OLD WORLD.
  
THE MANIAC.
  
ANSWER TO AN ANONYMOUS ADDRESS.
  
GENIUS PERSONIFIED.
  
EDWARD AND ELLEN.
  
THE BLIND BEGGAR'S ADDRESS TO HIS DOG.
  
THE WANDERER.
  
A RHAPSODIC EPISTLE
  
THE VISION OF ST. PATRICK.
  
THE DAYS OF YORE.
  
TO COMIC ROMANCE.
  
ABBEY EFFUSIONS.
  
ON GARRICK'S TOMB AND INSCRIPTION.
  
A BALLAD.
  
VERSES, Addressed to the Children of my Friend.
  
PRINCE SERAPIN,
  
THE COFFEE-HOUSE.
  
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF HENRY FLOOD, ESQ.
  
ON A DEAD NEGRO.
  
THE SAXON BANQUET.
  
THE WINTER'S NIGHT.
  
ORIGINAL ELEGY ON A COUNTRY ALEHOUSE.
  
HYMN TO SOLITUDE.
  
A MONODY ON CHATTERTON.
  
DEEDS OF DEATH.
  
THE BOWER OF WOODSTOCK.
  
EPISTLE FROM MAJOR ANDRE TO ELEONORA.
  
THE PROGRESS OF FANCY.
  
THE CAVE OF PATRONAGE.
  
EDMUND AND ELWINA.
  
CHEERFULNESS.
  
MELANCHOLY.
  
THE PEASANT'S APPEAL.
  
AN IRREGULAR ODE TO THE MOON.
  
FUTURITY.
  
THE DEATH OF HOWARD.
  
ON HISTORY.
  
POETICAL PHRENZY.
  
EPISTLE TO A YOUNG LADY,
  
A RHAPSODIC ADDRESS TO VARIETY.
  
THE THRUSH AND THE OWLS.
  
THE SEARCH;
  
THE POET TO HIS SOUL.
  
ON THE SORROWS OF A DEPENDANT STATE.
  
THE LAMENTATION OF DAVID
  
PEACE.
  
ALCANDER.
  
ODE TO DESCRIPTION.
  
INVENTION.
  
TO THE MEMORY OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.
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EPIGRAMS.
  
SONG.
  
BALLAD, Imitated from the Spanish of Cervantes.
  
TO THE EVENING STAR.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FRANCIS, EARL OF MOIRA, &c.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN HILY ADDINGTON.
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
WRITTEN IN A BURIAL PLACE.
  
TO MY CAT.
  
ODE TO NECESSITY.
  
TO ANTHEMOE.
  
TO MY MUSE.
  
FRIENDSHIP.
  
ON THE DEATH OF LORD HEATHFIELD.
  
THE GRAVE OF MORNO.
  
TO A POETICAL ENTHUSIAST.
  
TO FEELING.
  
THE PIPE OF TOBACCO.
  
AN HEROIC EPISTLE
  
SONG.
  
DOCTOR FAUSTUS'S PANEGYRIC.
  
THE QUESTION AND REPLY.
  
AN ELEGY ON A PROVERB-MONGER.
  
TO FEELING.
  
AN ODE TO A GREAT MAN'S GREAT PORTER.
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AN EPISTLE TO THE CONTROVERTISTS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CATHOLIC COMBUSTION.

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DEEDS OF DEATH.

What art thou, with ebon hair
Hanging on thy shoulders bare?
Now the hamlet's still as death,
Moping o'er the desert heath!
Wild and wan thy haggard face,
Which by moon-light I can trace:
Fiery red thy ferret eye
Doth deep in hollow socket lie;
And thy fingers lank and lean,
Spotted o'er with blood obscene,
Look as though a wound they gave,
Or had dug a new-made grave!
You move your skinny lips severe,
Yet no murmur'd sound I hear;
Ha! beneath thy sable pall
I hear a babe for mercy call;
Fainter now its feeble shrick;
How you writhe its little neck;
How you suck its flowing gore—
Lo! its bosom throbs no more.
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Who are these behind that throng,
Dragging a pale corse along?
How their murd'rous eyeballs gleam
O'er his deep wound's sanguine stream:
Now on me their leaden stare
Is levell'd with malignant glare;
Wrapt in Horror's central gloom
Heavy on my heart they come,
Yet with pausing step they steal—
In pity, Fancy, drop the veil.
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