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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.
  
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.
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ODE TO THE LYRIC MUSE.
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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.

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210

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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