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The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton

with an essay on the Rowley poems by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat and a memoir by Edward Bell
Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

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Vol. I.
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I. Poems written before 1769.
  
ON THE LAST EPIPHANY, OR, CHRIST COMING TO JUDGMENT.
  
A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY.
  
SLY DICK.
  
THE CHURCHWARDEN AND THE APPARITION.
  
APOSTATE WILL.
  
THE ROMANCE OF THE KNIGHT.
  
TO A FRIEND.
  
TO THE BEAUTEOUS MISS HOYLAND.
  
ODE TO MISS HOYLAND.
  
ACROSTIC ON MISS ELEANOR HOYLAND.
  
ACROSTIC ON MISS SALLY CLARKE.
  
TO MISS HOYLAND.
  
TO MISS HOYLAND.
  
TO MISS HOYLAND.
  
TO MISS HOYLAND. WITH A PRESENT.
  
TO MISS HOYLAND.
  
TO MISS CLARKE.
  
TO MISS HOYLAND.
  
TO MISS HOYLAND.
  
TO MISS C.
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II. Poems written in 1769.
  
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MR. JOHN TANDEY, SEN.
  
ON MR. ALCOCK, OF BRISTOL,
  
TO MR. HOLLAND.
  
TO MR. POWEL.
  
TO MRS. HAYWOOD, THE NOVELIST.
  
TO HORACE WALPOLE.
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JOURNAL SIXTH.
  
[Tis mystery all, in every sect]
  
[Say, Baker, if experience hoar]
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ODE.
  
Recitative.
  
Air.
  
Recitative.
  
Air.
  
Recitative.
  
Air.
  
Recitative.
  
FRAGMENT.
  
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MR. PHILLIPS, OF FAIRFORD.
  
ON THOMAS PHILLIPS' DEATH.
  
ELEGY. [AFTER GRAY.]
  
ELEGY, WRITTEN AT STANTON-DREW.
  
CLIFTON.
  
EPISTLE TO THE REVEREND MR. CATCOTT.
  
A NEW SONG.
  
THE COPERNICAN SYSTEM.
  
THE DEFENCE.
  
SENTIMENT.
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III. Poems written in 1770.
  
THE ADVICE.
  
VERSES WRITTEN BY CHATTERTON, TO A LADY IN BRISTOL.
  
HECCAR AND GAIRA.
  
THE CONSULIAD.
  
RESIGNATION.
  
FEBRUARY.
  
ELEGY.
  
THE EXHIBITION;
  
FRAGMENT.
  
SUNDAY. A FRAGMENT.
  
KEW GARDENS.
  
COLIN INSTRUCTED.
  
A BURLESQUE CANTATA.
  
SONG. FANNY OF THE HILL.
  
NARVA AND MORED,
  
A SONG, ADDRESSED TO MISS C---AM, OF BRISTOL.
  
ENQUIRY AFTER HAPPINESS.
  
HAPPINESS.
  
ELEGY.
  
THE METHODIST.
  
THE PROPHECY.
  
FABLES FOR THE COURT.
  
THE DEATH OF NICOU.
  
TO MISS BUSH, OF BRISTOL.
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THE REVENGE.
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Act I.
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Scene I.
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ACT II.
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SCENE I.
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Scene III.
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Scene V.
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SONGS IN “THE REVENGE”
  
THE HAPPY PAIR.
  
A BACCHANALIAN.
  
THE INVITATION.
  
A BACCHANALIAN.
  
THE VIRGIN'S CHOICE.
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THE WOMAN OF SPIRIT.
  
Air.
  
Air.
  
Air.
  
AN ELEGY, On the Much Lamented Death of William Beckford, Esq.,
  
THE ART OF PUFFING.
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IV. Miscellaneous Poems, &c.
  
TO A FRIEND, ON HIS INTENDED MARRIAGE.
  
HORATIUS: Lib. I. Carm. V.
  
HORATIUS: Lib. I. Carm. XIX.
  
THE COMPLAINT.
  
AN EPITAPH ON AN OLD MAID.
  
ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SMITH.
  
ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.
  
THE RESIGNATION.
  
LAST VERSES.
  
CHATTERTON'S WILL.
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VOL. II.
  
BRISTOWE TRAGEDIE;
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ÆLLA,
  
EPISTLE TO MASTRE CANYNGE ON ÆLLA.
  
LETTER TO THE DYGNE MASTRE CANYNGE.
  
ENTRODUCTIONNE.
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GODDWYN.
  
PROLOGUE
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ENGLISH METAMORPHOSIS.
  
AN EXCELENTE BALADE OF CHARITIE
  
TO JOHNE LADGATE.
  
SONGE TO ÆLLA,
  
THE UNDERWRITTEN LINES WERE COMPOSED BY JOHN LADGATE, A PRIEST IN LONDON,
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THE TOURNAMENT.
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BATTLE OF HASTINGS. (No. I.)
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BATTLE OF HASTINGS. (No. II.)
  
THE ROMAUNTE OF THE CNYGHTE.
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ECLOGUES.
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ECLOGUE THE FIRST.
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ECLOGUE THE SECOND.
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ECLOGUE THE THIRD.
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ELINOURE AND JUGA.
  
THE STORIE OF WILLIAM CANYNGE.
  
ON OUR LADY'S CHURCH.
  
ON THE SAME.
  
ON THE DEDICATION OF OUR LADY'S CHURCH.
  
FRAGMENT
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THE PARLIAMENT OF SPRITES.
  
Introduction by Queen Mab.
  
To John Carpenter, Bishop of Worcester.
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Sprites of Elle, Bythrycke, Fitz-hardynge, Frampton, Gaunte, Segowen, Lamyngeton, a Knight Templar, and Byrtonne. (By Rowlie.)
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XXXVI.
  
ON THE MYNSTER.
  
THE WORLD.
  
ONE CANTO OF AN ANCIENT POEM, CALLED THE UKNOWN KNIGHT OR THE TOURNAMENT.
  
THE FREERE OF ORDERYS WHYTE.
  
DIALOGUE,
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THE MERRIE TRICKES OF LAMYNGETOWNE.
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VIII.
  
SONGE OF SEYNCTE BALDYWYNNE.
  
SONGE OF SEYNCTE WARBURGHE.
  
SANCTE WARBUR.
  
WARRE.
  
A CHRONYCALLE OF BRYSTOWE.
  
ON HAPPIENESSE.
  
THE GOULER'S REQUIEM.
  
ONN JOHN A DALBENIE.
  
HEREAUDYN.
  
EPITAPH ON ROBERT CANYNGE.
  
THE ACCOUNTE OF W. CANYNGES FEAST.
  
FRAGMENT OF A POEM BY ROWLEY.
  
FRAGMENT OF A POEM BY ROWLEY:
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APPENDIX.
  
[Quæ requirit misericordiam mala causa est.]

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TO MISS HOYLAND.

(1768).
Once more the Muse to beauteous Hoyland sings;—
Her grateful tribute of harsh numbers brings
To Hoyland! Nature's richest, sweetest store,
She made an Hoyland, and can make no more.
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Nor all the beauties of the world's vast round
United, will as sweet as her be found.
Description sickens to rehearse her praise—
Her worth alone will deify my days.
Enchanting creature! Charms so great as thine
May all the beauties of the day outshine.
Thy eyes to every gazer send a dart,
Thy taking graces captivate the heart.
O for a muse that shall ascend the skies,
And like the subject of the Epode rise;
To sing the sparkling eye, the portly grace,
The thousand beauties that adorn the face
Of my seraphic maid, whose beauteous charms
Might court the world to rush at once to arms;
Whilst the fair Goddess, native of the skies,
Shall sit above, and be the victor's prize.
O now, whilst yet I sound the tuneful lyre,
I feel the thrilling joy her hands inspire;
When the soft tender touch awakes my blood,
And rolls my passions with the purple flood.
My pulse beats high; my throbbing breast's on fire
In sad variety of wild desire.
O Hoyland! heavenly goddess! angel! saint!
Words are too weak thy mighty worth to paint;
Thou best, completest work that nature made,
Thou art my substance, and I am thy shade.
Possess'd of thee, I joyfully would go
Through the loud tempest, and the depth of woe.
From thee alone my being I derive—
One beauteous smile from thee makes all my hopes alive.
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