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The Poetical Works of Percival Stockdale

In two volumes
Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
  
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VOL. I.
  
THE POET;
  
POETICAL EXCURSIONS IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
  
AN ELEGY;
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THREE POEMS
  
[dedication]
  
SIDDONS:
  
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO SIR ASHTON LEVER.
  
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG OFFICER OF THE ARMY.
  
THE INVINCIBLE ISLAND; A POEM:
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POEMS.
  
[dedication]
  
TO EDMUND WALLER, ESQ. Of Hall-Barn, in Buckinghamshire,
  
A SONG.
  
THE RIVAL FLOWERS.
  
TO MRS. JORDAN.
  
THE BLUE EYE.
  
AN ANSWER TO THE ENCOMIUM ON THE BLUE EYE.
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VERSES ADDRESSED TO OXFORD.
  
VERSES TO A ROBIN-RED-BREAST, WHO SINGS EVERY MORNING, NEAR MY BED-CHAMBER.
  
[Here lies]
  
AN EPITAPH ON MRS. POPE.
  
AN EPITAPH ON THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE.
  
AN INSCRIPTION FOR A COTTAGE, IN A PICTURESQUE AND BEAUTIFUL VALE IN NORTHUMBERLAND.
  
THE NAVAL FIRST OF AUGUST, 1798.
  
AN EPITAPH ON DAVID GARRICK.
  
AN EPITAPH ON A FINE, PROMISING BOY, WHO DIED, AFTER A LONG AND EXCRUCIATING ILLNESS.
  
AN EPITAPH ON PRINCE SUWARROW.
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VOL. II.
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THE AMYNTAS OF TASSO.
  
[Ye, who your minds from pageantry withdraw]
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AMYNTAS
  
THE PROLOGUE.
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ACT I.
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SCENE II.
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ACT II.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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ACT III.
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SCENE II.
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ACT IV.
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ACT V.
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SCENE I.
  
POETICAL THOUGHTS, AND VIEWS; ON THE BANKS OF THE WEAR.
  
A POETICAL ADDRESS TO THE SUPREME BEING.
  
A CONFERENCE BETWIXT APOLLO AND HIS DISCIPLE.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DR. JOHNSON'S FAVORITE CAT.
  
AN ODE TO A RIVULET;
  
ON SEEING MR. GARRICK IN DON JOHN,
  
PROLOGUE, For the School for Wives.
  
To ------
  
A PROLOGUE Spoken at Portsmouth, by MRS. HEARD,
  
THE VOLUPTUARY.
  
TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM, JUST PUBLISHED, entitled THE DYING NEGRO.
  
TO HENRY COLLINGWOOD, SELBY, ESQ.
  
A NEW HYMN, FOR EASTER SUNDAY, 1785;
  
TO LADIES KILLING WASPS WITH OIL.
  
FRANCE;—ORLEANS;—LANSDOWNE.
  
ON MISS WILLIS.
  
VERSES TO MISS DALTON,
  
AN EPITAPH.
  
VERSES ON THE DEATH OF THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.
  
ON MY GOING TO LIVE AT WINDSOR.
  
VERSES on THE FIRE AT CLIFDEN.
  
AN ODE, ON LORD NELSON'S VICTORY over THE DANES.
  
ON THE SECOND MEMORABLE VICTORY, AT ABOUKIR.
  
AN EPITAPH ON A VERY PRETTY AND MOST AMIABLE CAT.
  
VERSES ON THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.
  
A POETICAL TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF LORD NELSON
  
AN EPITAPH ON MR. PITT.
  
ON THE ANTIQUITIES OF MONMOUTHSHIRE:
  
THE PHILOSOPHER.

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A SONG.

DO great atchievements fire thy breast;
Do martial trophies break thy rest?
Or laurels of eternal bloom,
Like those that hallow Cæsar's tomb?
To memory bring the fatal ball,
Perhaps not sent from Frederickshall,
Which proved the Swede's illustrious fame,
An air-balloon, an empty name.
Or does the bright poetic muse
To nobler glory raise your views?
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Sagacious malice checks your aim,
And poverty repels your flame.
When envy with the poet dies,
His rapid same through Europe flies;
But 'tis to genius, after death,
An air-balloon, an empty breath.
Or fonder of domestic life,
The lover weds a charming wife;
Anticipates unfading joys,
And gentle girls, and sprightly boys;
But female tyranny comes forth,
And throws aside fictitious worth;
The course of one revolving moon
May prove your bliss an air-balloon.
Through life, what'er our lot, we're all
Like Montgolfier's elastic ball;
We all attract admiring eyes;
The court or village we surprize;
Now soar to some ethereal height;
Met by rude gales, now sink our flight;
To parent earth, at length, descend;
The trivial sport, and wonder end.
London, Feb. 16th, 1784.
 

It was not sent from Frederickshall. He was assassinated by a villain who stood near him. 1810.

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