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The Harp of Erin

Containing the Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Dermody. In Two Volumes

Dermody, Thomas (1775-1802)

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II.

BATTLE OF THE BARDS.

THE RETROSPECT.

THE POWERS OF PAINTING.

THE SOLDIER'S ABSENCE, AND RETURN.

THE POOR SCHOLAR.

ANSWER TO AN ANONYMOUS ADDRESS.

GENIUS PERSONIFIED.

EDWARD AND ELLEN.

THE BLIND BEGGAR'S ADDRESS TO HIS DOG.

A RHAPSODIC EPISTLE

THE VISION OF ST. PATRICK.

THE DAYS OF YORE.

TO COMIC ROMANCE.

ABBEY EFFUSIONS.

ON GARRICK'S TOMB AND INSCRIPTION.

VERSES, Addressed to the Children of my Friend.

PRINCE SERAPIN,

THE COFFEE-HOUSE.

ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF HENRY FLOOD, ESQ.

ON A DEAD NEGRO.

THE SAXON BANQUET.

THE WINTER'S NIGHT.

ORIGINAL ELEGY ON A COUNTRY ALEHOUSE.

HYMN TO SOLITUDE.

A MONODY ON CHATTERTON.

DEEDS OF DEATH.

THE BOWER OF WOODSTOCK.

EPISTLE FROM MAJOR ANDRE TO ELEONORA.

THE PROGRESS OF FANCY.

THE CAVE OF PATRONAGE.

EDMUND AND ELWINA.

THE PEASANT'S APPEAL.

AN IRREGULAR ODE TO THE MOON.

THE DEATH OF HOWARD.

POETICAL PHRENZY.

EPISTLE TO A YOUNG LADY,

A RHAPSODIC ADDRESS TO VARIETY.

THE THRUSH AND THE OWLS.

THE POET TO HIS SOUL.

ON THE SORROWS OF A DEPENDANT STATE.

THE LAMENTATION OF DAVID

ODE TO DESCRIPTION.

TO THE MEMORY OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.

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[Good statesman, be wise, and spend not your blood]

[Lest your own praise should chance to die]

[A Friar, who solac'd a rogue with God's love]

EPIGRAM FROM CATULLUS. TRANSLATED.

LUCAN'S CELEBRATED LINE TRANSLATED.

[You pay a French barber for putting a tooth in]

[Iron trunk for your gold, iron bars to keep it faster]

[You say, good Richard, though you rhime so well]

[Fortune, I say, is no unequal whore]

[Time destroys all things below, or above]

[“Thou shalt not steal,” good counsellor, be still]

[One God, two bibles, three great signs adore]

ODE TO A MOUSE.

[Acteon his dogs eat, bones, body, and all]

EPIGRAMMA BIDERMANI. IMITATED.

J. SCALIGER'S EPIGRAM On the sonnets of Petrarch.

BALLAD, Imitated from the Spanish of Cervantes.

TO THE EVENING STAR.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FRANCIS, EARL OF MOIRA, &c.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN HILY ADDINGTON.

WRITTEN IN A BURIAL PLACE.

ODE TO NECESSITY.

ON THE DEATH OF LORD HEATHFIELD.

THE GRAVE OF MORNO.

TO A POETICAL ENTHUSIAST.

THE PIPE OF TOBACCO.

AN HEROIC EPISTLE

DOCTOR FAUSTUS'S PANEGYRIC.

THE QUESTION AND REPLY.

AN ELEGY ON A PROVERB-MONGER.

AN ODE TO A GREAT MAN'S GREAT PORTER.

AN EPISTLE TO THE CONTROVERTISTS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CATHOLIC COMBUSTION.

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[Lest your own praise should chance to die]

Lest your own praise should chance to die,
Nor enter fame's large portal,
On sculptured stones you place it high,
—But stones are not immortal.