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Lewesdon Hill, with other poems

By the Rev. William Crowe ... a corrected and much enlarged edition, with notes

Crowe, William (1745-1829)

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INSCRIBED BENEATH THE PICTURE OF AN ASS.

ODE TO THE LYRIC MUSE.

ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK.

ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF DR. W. HAYES, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

THE BRITISH THEATRE.

ON TWO PUBLICATIONS, ENTITLED EDITIONS OF TWO OF OUR POETS.

TO A YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN,

SONNET.

SONNET TO PETRARCH.

TRANSLATION OF A GREEK INSCRIPTION UPON A FOUNTAIN .

FROM LUCRETIUS.

FROM LUCRETIUS.

FROM LUCRETIUS.

MIDNIGHT DEVOTION.

FROM PURCHASE'S PILGRIMAGE,

THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE.

ON TWO ENGLISH POETS,

ON THE FUNERAL OF ------,

AN EXPOSTULATORY SUPPLICATION TO DEATH,

ON THE DECEASE OF HORNE TOOKE.

ON FIELD-MARSHAL SUWOROW.

ON F. W. THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S INEFFECTUAL ATTEMPT ON WARSAW.

POLITICAL ADVICE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH CONVENTION.

WRITTEN WHEN BUONAPARTE WAS ALTERING THE GOVERNMENTS OF GERMANY.

SUGGESTED BY READING DRYDEN'S BRITANNIA REDIVIVA,

ON THE INCREASE OF HUMAN LIFE.

ODE TO THE KING OF FRANCE. 1823.

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SONNET.

[Ah! where is hid, if still it may survive]

Ah! where is hid, if still it may survive
The canker'd tooth of Age and Time's despight,
Ah! where is hid that Orb of glass so bright,
That Merlin for King Ryence did contrive;
That wond'rous Orb so bright, wherein did live,
Or ever Time had brought them into light,
The forms of things unborn, which to the sight
Its high-enchanted power would strangely give!—
For Hope, with counterfeit of this true Glass,

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Doth so beguile the lover's easy mind,
Still turning it to Fancy's idiot eye,
That Reason's self forgets her majesty
To join the gaze; till the fond phantoms pass,
And Grief and stern Repentance rise behind.