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The Shamrock

or, Hibernian Cresses. A Collection of Poems, Songs, Epigrams, &c. Latin as well as English, The Original Production of Ireland. To which are subjoined thoughts on the prevailing system of school education, respecting young ladies as well as gentlemen: with practical proposals for a reformation [by Samuel Whyte]

Whyte, S. (1733-1811)

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THE THREE TRAVELLERS. A TALE.

On seeing Mrs. WOFFINGTON, in the Character of Phædra.

TO THERANIA.

A PERSIAN TALE

ODE: To the MUSE.

ON Miss KENNAN's going, in the Character of a Shepherdess, to the Fancied Ball,

AN APOLOGY FOR SILENCE.

THE NOSEGAY.

To the Memory of the Right Hon. Charlotte, Lady Viscountess Townshend,

THE CHOICE OF HERCULES. AN ODE, FOR MUSIC.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

EPIGRAM.

AN ELEGY, On the much-lamented Death of The Reverend JOHN LAWSON, D. D. S. F. T. C. D.

THE POET'S APOLOGY TO A YOUNG LADY,

HOCUS POCUS.

AN Occasional PROLOGUE to the Tragedy of Zara,

A FAMILIAR EPISTLE

The MALECONTENTS.

ODE, to PEACE, On the NEW YEAR, 1771.

THE NEW YEAR's GIFT.

To a YOUNG LADY,

A CHANCERY SUIT.

From POPE's Essay on Man.

VERS sur un Passage de POPE. Par Mr. De VOLTAIRE.

EPIGRAMMA.

On two beautiful Sisters, unhappily drowned in the Sea.

Imitated, by a School-Boy.

An EPIGRAM.

POETA ad SUPEROS.

THE SHEPHERD'S MORAL. A PASTORAL BALLAD.

TO MYRA, On her BIRTH-DAY.

AN HYMN TO HARMONY.

EPISTLE. FROM A STUDENT AT LAW, TO HIS FRIEND.

VERSES, Sent, with a little Book of Manuscript Poems, To Miss ELIZA G---N.

THE LAWYER'S PRAYER.

VERSES, On the Rev. Dr. CORBET's Promotion to the Deanery of St. Patrick, Dublin.

To a LADY, With a PRAYER-BOOK.

EPIGRAM.

The FLY, and the CANDLE.

EPIGRAM.

EPIGRAM. Ocasioned by the Foregoing.

SONG.

VERSES, WRITTEN Upon a Pedestal, beneath a Row of Elms, in a Meadow, near Richmond-Ferry, Belonging to RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE, Esq

AN INVITATION TO THE AUTHOR'S WEDDING.

THE NYMPH OF THE WELL, TO THE LADIES AT MALLOW.

SONG, On Miss LOVETT.

THE Nineteenth ODE of the Third Book of HORACE, IMITATED.

ON Dr. THWAITES's quitting the Practice of PHYSIC, AND Opening a GLASS WAREHOUSE, in Fleet-Street.

EPIGRAM. On Miss B---R.

ADVICE to Miss B---R.

On a LADY Sleeping.

THE VISION.

THE CHARMS OF MISS COX.

THE PETITION OF MARGARET WOFFINGTON, TO HIS GRACE, THE DUKE OF DORSET.

RIDDLE.

LISETTA.

EPIGRAM.

Occasional PROLOGUE to the Beggar's Opera,

TWO LOVE ELEGIES.

ELEGY I. To Damon.

II.

ELEGY II. In ANSWER to the FOREGOING.

LINES, PRESENTED WITH A ROSE-BUD, TO A VERY YOUNG LADY,

ON THREE BEAUTIFUL SISTERS, AT THE FANCY-BALL, FRIDAY, March 16th, 1769.

RESPONSES OF THE PRIESTESS OF APOLLO, AT THE FANCY-BALL.

STANZAS, WRITTEN On a blank Leaf of WEBB's Beauties of Poetry, Painting, &c.

THE LAST BOTTLE. WITH A RECEIPT for making PUNCH.

To a Lady.

Another.

THE CHOICE OF A WIFE.

THE BIRD OF PARADISE.

SYLVIA: A CHARACTER.

ELEGIAC STANZAS, To the Memory of A YOUNG GENTLEMAN,

LINES, PRESENTED To a YOUNG LADY, with a SILVER THIMBLE.

THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND. WRITTEN BY A YOUNG LADY.

THE HUE AND CRY.

A SECOND PROCLAMATION.

In ANSWER to the FOREGOING.

II.

STANZAS, To ------, with the FOREGOING ELEGIES.

AN INSCRIPTION, Written upon one of the TUBS in HAM WALKS.

INSCRIPTIONS, INTENDED FOR THE MONUMENT OF THOMAS PRIOR, ESQ

VERSES, ADDRESSED TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT, At the ELABORATORY, T. C. D.

VERSES, ADDRESSED TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT, At the PRINTING-HOUSE, T. C. D.

ON THE MARRIAGE OF Lord KINGSBOROUGH, and Miss FITZGERALD.

CUPID, and his DARTS.

ODE to HEALTH.

An EPITAPH.

LINES, Written in a blank Leaf of JOHNSON's WORKS

II.

III.

IV.

REASON's TRIUMPH: A CANTATA.

ODE On FREDERICK III. King of PRUSSIA.

II.

III.

IV.

ODE on BRITISH FREEDOM.

II.

III.

IV.

THE TEMPLE OF GLORY.

EPITAPH On a MAN who had a very wide Mouth.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

AN ELEGY, Written in the Year 1751.

An EXTEMPORE.

A NEW AND ACCURATE TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HOMER'S ILIAD.

SONG. To THERANIA.

AN EXTEMPORE THOUGHT, At Mr. WALKER's Optic Lecture,

VALESUS: AN ECLOGUE.

The LYCEUM .

OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE TO THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERD.

SONNET. To Mr. THOMAS HICKEY.

AN ELEGY.

TO A LADY, Who demanded an EXTEMPORE. In IMITATION of the Foregoing.

SONG.

A FAMILIAR EPISTLE, FROM A LAW-STUDENT, in the Country, To his FRIEND, at the Temple.

SONG.

EPIGRAM.

A LETTER TO CHARLES LUCAS, Esq; M. D.

AN IMITATION OF THE FIRST ODE of the FIRST BOOK of HORACE.

TRUTH in a MASK.

GAIETY and INNOCENCE: Or, THERANIA's KISS.

SONG

IRENE: A CANTO, ON THE PEACE.

The SCOLD:

ÆNIGMA.

THE HONE: A Piece of IRISH MYTHOLOGY.

EPITAPH. MULTUM IN PARVO.

VERSES To Miss ELEANOR WOOD.

A NEW SONG.

SONG.

AN ODE TO THE CREATOR.

ODE: TO IERNE.

ODE: on The KING's NUPTIALS.

EPIGRAM. On a CUP OF TEA, spilt in a LADY's Lap.

ON Miss M. and Miss H. HERRING.

AN INVITATION. TO DR. JUSTAMOND.

SONG: ON Miss MOLLY HERRING's Marriage with Mr. STONE

EPIGRAM. Upon a BARBER.

HARRIOT. AN ELEGY.

THE FOURTEENTH OF FEBRUARY.

GAY's EPITAPH, PARAPHRASED.

THE FOUNDLING.

ON THE BERNARD FAMILY, IN CARLOW.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

THE ABSENT LOVER's REQUEST.

ON THE ORIGIN AND IMPROVEMENT OF KISSES.

SONNET. To Miss PLUMMER.

COLESHILL: An ELEGY.

THE FAREWELL: A PASTORAL BALLAD.

TO MR. ***********: On reading some of his POEMS.

VERSES On seeing a married Lady in a Window.

LOMNANA.

I. VENUS on EARTH.

II.

II. A DIALOGUE.

III.

III. The VINDICATION.

IV.

IV. The ENQUIRY.

V. The ANSWER.

VI.

VI. The WISH.

VII.

VII. A fourth CANDIDATE.

VIII.

VIII. The CHARM.

The LINNET and GOLDFINCH.

The REMONSTRANCE.

EPIGRAM. To a young Lady blowing a Turf Fire with her Petticoat.

OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE To the Tragedy of Cato, perform'd by young Gentlemen.

AN ELEGY On the Death of two Goldfinches, given to the Writer by the Right Honourable Lady Mary Leslie, on her leaving Ireland.

SONG. By a young LADY.

A HYMN. By the same; a little before her Death, October 5, 1763.

EPITAPH On Miss ****, Pancras Church-Yard.

HYMN.

A SONG.

PREPOSSESSION: A SONG.

A HYMN: On recovering from a Fit of Illness.

ÆNIGMA I.

II.

ÆNIGMA II.

III.

ÆNIGMA III.

CUPID and the PAINTER.

ODE.

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When Worth, and Loveliness, supreme,
The raptur'd Poet makes his Theme,
Recreant to Beauty, Taste, and Wit,
Who could a Sister's Claim omit;
Tho' now her Glories matchless rise,
The Cynosure of distant Skies—
By modern Pens, and Bards of old,
In copious Strain we are loudly told,
Of Pallas, and the Wife of Jove,
Of Hebe, and the Queen of Love,
Of Proserpine, who Pluto charm'd,
And her, whose Quarrel Nations arm'd;
Of Paintings too, one finish'd Piece
Comprising all the Toasts of Greece!
Fond Tales of Wonders well devis'd;

But, tho' we mourn our absent Fair,
In Fanny all are realiz'd,

And bloom in just Assemblage there.
Say, can the spangling Dews supply
Refractive brightness, like her Eye?
Or can the Morning's Radiance speak
The modest Sweetness of her Cheek?
And, could consummate Genius find
Tints to express embodied Mind,

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Her Features, Person, Mein, are such!
O! what Promethean Art could touch!

Miss Barbara Montgomery, the second Sister, then on a Visit with her Uncle, the Lord Advocate for Scotland.

Cynosure, properly the Northern Star, by which Sailors direct their Course; metaphorically here, the Star of Beauty, to which, all who would view the human Face divine, in Perfection, must necessarily turn their Attention.

Miss Nugent, of Clonlost, County Westmeath.

This more particularly alludes to the Work of a celebrated Artist, who twice attempted, but not with his usual Success, to take a Likeness of this young Lady, in Wax, for the Author. Alike indebted to the other amiable Daughters of his Care, who also honoured him with their Pictures about the same Time, he gladly seizes this Opportunity of doing Justice to their Merit; and fondly persuades himself, the present Publication may remain a Monument of it to Posterity, exciting their fair Countrywomen to a laudable Emulation of their Excellencies. 'Twas his Happiness to superintend the Education of several of them from their earliest Infancy; and, he has now the additional Felicity of testifying, in plain and simple Prose, that even Poetry cannot exceed their Deserts.