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The Wiccamical Chaplet

a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford

Huddesford, George (1749-1809)

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SMALLER POEMS, AND ODES.

VERSES,

THE LOVE OF OUR COUNTRY.

ODE, WRITTEN AT THE FOOT OF SNOWDON,

ODE, ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND,

ODE, TO AN ANGRY MISTRESS.

ODE TO A COUNSEL IN SOUTH WALES,

ODE TO THE CROW.

ODE TO THE LYRIC MUSE.

ELEGIES, AND PLAINTIVE PIECES.

ELEGY, IMITATED FROM FLAMINIUS, Lib. iv. Page 18.

A HERMIT'S MEDITATION.

THE MONCKIS COMPLAYNTE TO ALMA MATER,

TO ELIZA.

ANSWER To the foregoing Address.

MAISTER J. HARTELIBE HIS ELEGIE On the Dethe of that most perfect Paragon of Beauty Mrs. S. Monimie.

STANZAS WRITTEN IN AN HERMITAGE.

THE LOVER

ON THE DEATH OF Dr. GREGORY, Professor of Physic at Edinburgh.

UNFINISHED ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF Dr. WILLIAM HAYES, Late Professor of Music in the University of Oxford.

NUGÆ POETICÆ, &c.

ANTHOLOGIA.

TRANSLATION.

ANACREONTIC, FROM JULIANUS ÆGYPTIUS.

TRANSLATION.

EX ANTHOL.

CARPHYLIDÆ. Ex Anthob. III. i. 6. Brunck. II. 401.

ANACREON, ODE I.

SONG, BY GEORGE WITHER.

LOOSE TRANSLATION,

EX ANTHOL.

FROM MILTON's EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS.

ANACREONTIC.

SONNETS.

SONNET I. THE WORLD.

II.

SONNET II. FROM THE ITALIAN.

III.

SONNET III. TO Mr. WARTON,

IV.

SONNET IV. ON THE AUTHOR's BIRTH-DAY.

SONNET V. TO LAURA.

VI.

SONNET VI. THE RETURN OF LAURA.

VII.

SONNET VII. TO VALCLUSA.

VIII.

SONNET VIII. IMITATION FROM FAUSTINA MARATTI.

IX.

SONNET IX. ON DOVER CLIFFS.

SONNET X. TO AN OAK Blown down by the Wind.

XI.

SONNET XI. MORNING.

XII.

SONNET XII. TO BOCCACCIO.

XIII.

SONNET XIII. INSANIENTIS DUM SAPIENTIÆ.

XIV.

SONNET XIV. TO AN INFANT.

XV.

SONNET XV. RETIREMENT.

XVI.

SONNET XVI. ON A WET SUMMER.

XVII.

SONNET XVII. On a Revolution in the Opinions and Conduct of a Friend, whose Notions were supposed to be a little too free; and who was also supposed to have an Amour with a Lady who sung elegantly.

XVIII.

SONNET XVIII. ON THE DEATH OF THOMAS WARTON.

INSCRIPTIONS AND EPITAPHS.

ON THE SAME.

Inscribed beneath the Picture of an ASS.

EPITAPH ON AN INFIRM OLD LADY, Who died aged 96.

INSCRIPTION IN AN ARBOUR.

EPITAPH On a late LIBERAL and LEARNED LIMB OF THE LAW.

AN INSCRIPTION ON AN OBELISK AT LONGFORD IN WILTS, The Seat of the Earl of Radnor,

EPITAPH ON AN OLD MAID IN A COUNTRY VILLAGE.

ON THE SAME.

WRITTEN IN A WINDOW, Under some scandalous Reflections on several Ladies.

INSCRIPTION ON A PANE OF GLASS.

EPITAPH OF AN INJURED LOVER.

INSCRIPTIO URNÆ.

EPITAPH ON A YOUTH.

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION.

WRITTEN ON A PANE OF GLASS.

INSCRIPTION FOR THE TOMB OF Mrs. ELIZABETH PIDGEON, Who died suddenly.

INSCRIPTION FOR THE PEDESTAL OF A STATUE OF PRINCE FIELD-MARSHAL SOUWAROFF RIMNISKI ITALISKI.

SONGS AND BALLADS.

SONG TO A LADY

SONG, ON A KISS.

SONG. THE REFLECTION.

THE PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED.

BACCHANALIAN SONG.

A NEW BALLAD OF DEATH AND THE LADY.

WELL-A-DAY JACK! OR, THE JACK THAT JACK SPLIT.

CRICKET-SONG.

A BALLAD OF SIMILIES.

THE TRIOPTHALMIST, OR THREE-EYED CONNOISSEUR.

THE CAPE HUNT,

MOCK-HEROICAL AND BURLESQUE PIECES, PARODIES, EPIGRAMS, &c.

THE CONQUEST OF QUEBEC,

ON THE NEW GIBBET ON HOUNSLOW HEATH.

THE LAUREATE's ODE, 1771.

THE PLAGIARISM OF THE POET-LAUREATE DETECTED;

OLD WYSCHARD.

ODE, In the Manner of Samuel J*ns*n.

RONDEAU.

ANOTHER ODE TO STELLA.

EPIGRAM,

ODE FOR WILLIAM PRESTON,

EPIGRAM,

BY A YOUNG LADY,

ELEGY ON A FAVOURITE BANTUM,

PARODY,

ROBIN-A-BOBIN,

THE PEPPER-BOX.

A NEW-YEAR'S ODE, 1777.

TIZZY;

ON THE FUNERAL OF MR. ELWES

FRIENDLY COUNSEL.

ON Mrs. W---n,

IMPROMPTU,

SAMPLE

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES, FRAGMENTS, &c.

FRAGMENT. ON THE DEATH OF GRAY.

ON TWO PUBLICATIONS, INTITLED EDITIONS OF TWO OF OUR POETS.

FRAGMENT. THE TEARS OF THE EAGLE,

FELICITATION

TO A LADY

THE SCUTTLE FISH.

ANSWER TO AN OLD LADY OF OXFORD,

ON A THREAT TO DESTROY THE TREE AT WINCHESTER,

FRAGMENT.

TO A BOY, ROBBING A BIRD'S-NEST.

ON A LADY AND HER SISTER,

TO THE WRITER OF THE “Familiar Epistle to the Author of the History of English Poetry:”

A DRAMATIC VIEW OF THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN QUESTION 1776.

AN EARLY VIEW OF THE SAME QUESTION:

TO THE LADIES,

FRAGMENT.

LINES

ON A CHAPEL Built at Windsor Lodge by William Duke of Cumberland,

THE COMPLAINT OF THE ROSE.

AN ABSOLUTE ACROSTIC,

FRAGMENT.

ON THE Amphibious N. ELLIOT, of Oxford, Shoemaker and Poet.

LINES Inscribed on a Leaf of Lowth's Grammar,

IMITATION

THE SPLEEN.

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SAMPLE

Of the Sublime, Luminous, and Profound, in Modern Poetry.

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

How I rejoic'd when the Sclavonian Bat
Popt from the Zenith in a slip-shod hat!
Then, while athwart my steed the ostler's haste
A Yorkshire pudding for a saddle plac'd,
On my pacific pair of boots I drew
That in the twilight of Gambadoes grew;
And ere yon squint-ey'd planet gave the hint
To pickle pancakes in Geneva print,
Or ere Tantides would his task forego
To crop rheumatic Sprouts from Nestor's toe,
A Roman Coach drove o'er my logic nose,
And green Iniquity grew ripe in prose.—
'Twas then from Hypochondres' concave bounds
Up-flew this whirlwind of prophetic sounds:
“When Polyphemus shall a sempstress turn,
“And icicles like lighted flambeaux burn;
“When Broad Saint Giles's shall ascend the sky,
“And Grosv'nor-square be fill'd with apple-pye;
“When South-America shakes hands with Greece,
“When Castles in the Air are let on lease;

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“When glow-worms' tails shall fire old Ocean's floods,
“When Rhadamanthus steeps his wig in suds;
“When Sir John Lade shall guide Apollo's Car,
“And Hamlet's Ghost get drunk with Doctor ------;
“When with red herrings teems the Grand Canal,
“When Neptune drives a gig along Pall-Mall,
“When the Sun's orb wants lustre, when the sky
“Wants stars, and Eldon wants Integrity;
“'Mongst the budge doctors of her rev'rend fold
“When wond'ring Lambeth sees Tom Paine enroll'd;
“When Billington shall warble heathen Greek,
“When Sheridan grows dull, and H---y meek;
“When pickled sturgeon from the stars shall drop,
“When Bonaparte keeps a chandler's shop;
“When Beaver broad humility denotes,
“When physic finds its way down Doctors' throats;
“When Epic Bays emblazon B---'s scull,
“When Mother Shipton shaves the Great Mogul;
“When Howard grows enamour'd of small-beer,
“And when Jack Ketch is made an Irish Peer;
“When sucking pigs shall sing in every grove,
“And Oysters fatten in a Rumford Stove;
“When Farthing Candles are for Toothpicks sold,
“And Gingerbread is worth its weight in Gold—
“Men shall be honest, Women hold their peace,
“Sin shut up shop, and Cuckold-making cease.”

Rheumatic Sprouts, alias “Corns.”—Tantides, a Grecian Empiric and Corn-cutter in ordinary to the King of Pylos, whom Homer forgot to celebrate.

Budge, surly, stiff, formal. Sam Johnson. Budge is Fur, antiently an ornament of the Scholastic habit. Tom Warton. For budge doctors read fudge doctors. Joe Ritson.

O fie! Joseph!