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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)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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SMALLER POEMS, AND ODES.
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ELEGIES, AND PLAINTIVE PIECES.
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NUGÆ POETICÆ, &c.
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SONNETS.
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INSCRIPTIONS AND EPITAPHS.
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SONGS AND BALLADS.
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MOCK-HEROICAL AND BURLESQUE PIECES, PARODIES, EPIGRAMS, &c.
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES, FRAGMENTS, &c.
  
THE BRITISH THEATRE.
  
FRAGMENT.
  
GRATULATORY LINES,
  
TO A LADY,
  
IMPROMPTU.
  
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:”
  
FRAGMENT,
  
THE PYTHAGOREAN.
  
TO A LADY,
  
TO THE SAME,
  
THE CONFESSION.
  
FRAGMENT,
  
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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THE CONFESSION.

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

Never till now could I with them agree
Who tell us, Want of Bliss is Misery;
I thought that Joy might in remembrance last,
And Pleasures, till forgotten, were not past:
But when from my Cleora I remov'd,
Too sadly true the slighted Tenet prov'd.
That she a lasting impress can impart,
Witness ye Powers who read her Strephon's heart!
Wishes and all that's ere call'd Love I feel;
But Griefs the wonted place of Pleasures fill.
So widow'd Earth, after a sun-bright day,
Retains the warmth of each enlivening ray;
But mourns in mists while the kind God's away.
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