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Poems

Chiefly Written in Retirement, By John Thelwall; With Memoirs of the Life of the Author. Second Edition

Thelwall, John (1764-1834)

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EFFUSIONS OF SOCIAL and RELATIVE AFFECTION.

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ELEGY On the death of a favourite Schoolfellow, Phillip Bonafous, who died of the small pox, in 1785.

Elegy, written during the Festival of Christmas, 1785.

Elegy, written in 1786, at a time when the subject of Imprisonment for Debt was much discussed.

Sonnet to the Nightingale. 1788.

Lines presented by the Author, to his Mother, together with a crutch stick.

Stanzas On a clay candlestick, given to the Author by an esteemed and valuable friend.

EXTEMPORE, On receiving a Rose from his Sister.

The Invitation.

STANZAS written in 1790.

EPISTLE to MERCUTIO.

Invocation to Poetry.

STANZAS To Rosa Bella Bianca, on her Birth-day.

To Stella in the Country, Dec. 1796.

The Tartan Pladdie.

Lines, written at Bridgewater, in Somersetshire, on the 27th of July, 1797; during a long excursion, in quest of a peaceful retreat.

On leaving the Bottoms of Glocestershire; where the Author had been entertained by several families with great hospitality.

To the Infant Hampden.—Written during a sleepless night.

PATERNAL TEARS.

The HARP on the WILLOW.

INVOCATION TO HEALTH.

THE ORPHAN BOY.

Amatory Sonnet.

THE FALL OF EGYPT;

Specimens of THE HOPE OF ALBION;

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EXTEMPORE, On receiving a Rose from his Sister.

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(From the same.)

Why, sever'd from its parent thorn,
Assumes the rose a brighter hue
Than when, impearl'd by dewy morn,
Among surrounding sweets it grew?

Why should it to the feasted sense,
Within a narrow room confin'd,
A richer perfume now dispense,
Than when it breath'd the fresh'ning wind?

Fraterna, hear the partial Muse
The mystery's pleasing cause proclaim:
More sweet its breath, more gay its hues,
Since from Affection's hand it came.