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Poems on Several Occasions

By Edward, Lord Thurlow. The Second Edition, considerably enlarged
Thurlow, Edward Hovell-Thurlow (1781-1829)

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VERSES PREFIXED TO THE DEFENCE OF POËSY.
  
TO THE MOST NOBLE PRINCE THE DUKE OF DORSET.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD HOLLAND.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF GRANARD.
  
A SONG TO SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
  
HERMILDA.
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SYLVA:
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3. ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE EARL OF MOIRA, TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
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4. A SONG, TO AMORET.
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6. A DIALOGUE OF TWO SHEPHERDS.
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8. A SONG.
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10. A SONG.
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17. TO THE VERY NOBLE, AND ACCOMPLISHED, THE LORD HOLLAND:
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22. TO A LADY:
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30. ON THE MANY ATTACKS MADE BY LATE WRITERS ON THE MEMORY OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
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31. FROM ANACREON.
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33. FROM THE ITALIAN OF DIANA SAMPIERI, OF OTRICOLI. ON A LADY BATHING.
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35. A SONG.
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36. THE FIRST PSALM.
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37. THE INDUCTION TO MY POEM, WHICH I DESIGNED TO WRITE; ENTITLED, “ENGLAND TRIUMPHANT.”
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38. THE PRAISE OF PINDAR, AND THEN OF AUGUSTUS:
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40. ON THE QUEEN'S PASSING THROUGH OTRICOLI, ON HER WAY TO ROME.
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41. ON THE QUEEN CHRISTINA'S ENTRANCE INTO OTRICOLI; DECEMBER 18, 1654.
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42. ON BEHOLDING MR. DENT'S LIBRARY, IN HERTFORD-STREET.
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45. FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE.
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47. ON MR. TODD'S EDITION OF SPENSER.
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58. THE LEGEND OF THE KNIGHT OF ILLYRIA.
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59. THE THIRD ELEGY OF THE THIRD BOOK OF TIBULLUS.
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61. FROM HORACE.
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62. FROM HORACE. THE THIRTEENTH ODE OF THE BOOK OF EPODES.

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8. A SONG.

[When Chloris, like an Angel, walks]

When Chloris, like an Angel, walks,
Amid' the golden Spring,
And, fairer than the blooming flow'rs,
Of Nature's sweets will sing,
How can I choose, but prize the hours,
That fly on Rapture's wing?
Her voice is like the Morning light,
That from the amber gate,
On sea and earth divinely plays,
Which yet no clouds abate:
All Nature on her charms may gaze,
And find in her a mate.
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And can it be so soft a form,
A voice so clear, and sweet,
Which e'en the Angels can beguile,
With love shall never meet?
Though Chloris know it not the while,
Love reigns in her complete.
With ev'ry sweetest flow'r, that blows,
For flow'rs to her are dear,
Her marble forehead we will crown,
Till she outshine the year:
Let Jove come from Olympus down,
And view our beauty here!
 

This Song has been beautifully set to musick by Mr. Stevens of the Charterhouse; a Gentleman, who, for his genius and science, is fit to have been the companion of Milton and Shakspeare, if they had lived in this time.

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