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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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IMITATION

From the Medea of Euripides.

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

Queen of every moving Measure,
Sweetest source of purest pleasure,
Music! why thy pow'rs employ
Only for the Sons of Joy?
Only for the smiling guests
At natal or at nuptial feasts?
Rather thy lenient Numbers pour
On those whom secret griefs devour;
Bid be still the throbbing hearts
Of those whom Death or absence parts;
And with some softly-whisper'd air
Smooth the brow of dumb Despair!
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