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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.

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TWO ELEGIAC ODES,

1.

FIRST ODE. Where is the British Genius fled?

2.

SECOND ODE. Let no unmanly plaint presume

THE BROWN BEAUTY.

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THE PRETTY VIXEN.

ANOTHER, TO THE SAME.

AN IMITATION OF MARTIAL.

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.

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THE CAVE OF IGNORANCE.

I.

II.

FAREWELL TO CARE.

FAREWELL TO JOY.

THE PROGRESS OF PEDANTRY.

THE VANITY OF HOPE.

THE VISION OF FANCY.

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THE SHRINE OF SYMPATHY.

I.

II.

III.

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.

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II.

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BATTLE OF THE BARDS.

I.

II.

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THE RETROSPECT.

A DEDICATORY SONNET

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.

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

TO THE CATHOLICS OF IRELAND.

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

How many with'ring years of dull despair,
Have o'er my fated front relentless roll'd,
Since first, beneath a Moira's partial care,
My happier moments wav'd their wings of gold!
Ah me! and must I never more behold
The glorious orb of day in gladness rise?
No more salute, with rapture-beaming eyes,
The glimmering star that shuts the shepherd's fold?
No more! if led not by thy lenient hand,
To the lone hermitage of learned case,
Where pensive joy may tenderly expand
His blooms, sore-shatter'd by the blighting breeze;
And a new, mental Eden, by degrees,
Bud forth, best patron! at thy soft command!

To the munificence of this amiable and accomplished nobleman the author is indebted for more unaltered favour, than can be repaid by the trifling effusions of poetical fancy.