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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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I.

THE EXTRAVAGANZA.

THE PLEASURES OF POESY.

THE ENTHUSIAST.

THE PURSUIT OF PATRONAGE.

HYMN TO AUTUMN.

GENIUS EXCUSED.

TWO ELEGIAC ODES,

THE BROWN BEAUTY.

THE CORN-DOCTOR:

MY OWN CHARACTER.

CICERO AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER.

A FRAGMENT OF PETRONIUS ARBITER.

ELEGIAC EXPOSTULATION TO AN UNFORTUNATE TAYLOR.

CARROL'S COMPLAINT.

HYMN TO BEAUTY.

THE FREQUENTED VILLAGE.

THE SHEPHERD'S DESPAIR.

ELEGIAC STANZAS TO FIDELE, IN CYMBELINE.

THE CAVE OF IGNORANCE.

FAREWELL TO CARE.

FAREWELL TO JOY.

THE PROGRESS OF PEDANTRY.

THE VANITY OF HOPE.

THE VISION OF FANCY.

THE SHRINE OF SYMPATHY.

AN ESSAY ON WIT.

RUMINATIONS ON A DECAYED MONASTERY.

THE SENSITIVE LINNET.

ADVICE TO TWO ADOPTED SISTERS.

THE POET'S PETITION TO APOLLO.

THE VISION OF KILLEIGH CHURCH.

HYMN TO SHAKSPEARE.

JOHN BAYNHAM'S EPITAPH.

A LAMENTABLE ELEGY ON NICHOLAS,

THE DEATH OF POOR DAVIE,

RECANTATORY POSTSCRIPT.

AN ODE TO MYSELF.

MY OWN EPITAPH.

ELEGIAC STANZAS ON MYSELF.

FAREWELL TO KILLEIGH.

EPISTLE TO J. C. WALKER, ESQ.

THE POET'S RECANTATION.

THE PETITION OF TOM DERMODY

FAREWELL TO IRELAND.

TO SIR JAMES BLAND BURGESS, BART.

EXCULPATORY LINES

THE FEMALE MENDICANT.

HYMN TO THE MEMORY OF THOMSON.

ON THE MISFORTUNES OF AN INGENIOUS MIND.

MILTON'S EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS TRANSLATED.

II.

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EPIGRAMMA BIDERMANI. IMITATED.

The fearless saint, inviolably chaste,
Bold trial! o'er the burning ploughshare past:
When the red torture kiss'd her hallow'd heel,
The fire, and not the foot, then learn'd to feel.