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Sonnets and Other Small Poems

By T. Park
Park, Thomas (1759-1834)
  
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TO MISS SEWARD.
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SONNETS.
 I. 
SONNET I.
 II. 
SONNET II.
 III. 
SONNET III.
 IV. 
SONNET IV.
 V. 
SONNET V.
 VI. 
SONNET VI.
 VII. 
SONNET VII.
 VIII. 
SONNET VIII.
 IX. 
SONNET IX.
 X. 
SONNET X.
 XI. 
SONNET XI.
 XII. 
SONNET XII.
 XIII. 
SONNET XIII.
 XIV. 
SONNET XIV.
 XV. 
SONNET XV.
 XVI. 
SONNET XVI.
 XVII. 
SONNET XVII.
 XVIII. 
SONNET XVIII.
 XIX. 
SONNET XIX.
 XX. 
SONNET XX.
 XXI. 
SONNET XXI.
 XXII. 
SONNET XXII.
 XXIII. 
SONNET XXIII.
 XXIV. 
SONNET XXIV.
 XXV. 
SONNET XXV.
 XXVI. 
SONNET XXVI.
 XXVII. 
SONNET XXVII.
 XXVIII. 
SONNET XXVIII.
 XXIX. 
SONNET XXIX.
 XXX. 
SONNET XXX.
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OCCASIONAL VERSES.
  
ON HAYDN.
  
WRITTEN AT THE GARDEN-SEAT of a FEMALE ACADEMY,
  
TO MR. AND MRS. H.
  
WRITTEN BY THE SIDE OF THE LATE MR. SCOTT's GROUNDS,
  
WRITTEN IN THE ISLE OF THANET.
  
ON LEAVING A SUMMER RESIDENCE
  
TO WILLIAM ROWLEY, M. D.
  
ON VIEWING THE GRAVES OF JAMES AND SARAH EASTON,
  
LINES
  
THE SUMMER INVITATION.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
  
FOR A TABLE
  
FOR AN ANTIQUE ROOT-HOUSE,
  
ANOTHER,
  
INSCRIPTIVE ANATHEMA,
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FAMILIAR EPISTLES.
  
TO A FRIEND, AT TRINITY-COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
  
LETTER FROM THE SAME FRIEND.
  
REPLY TO THE PRECEDING.
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EPIGRAMS.
  
A MAN OF PROMISE.
  
ON THE SPLENDID FUNERAL OF A MISER.
  
Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.
  
SECOND SIGHT.
  
A MAN OF PUNCTUALITY.
  
ON A SELF-APPLAUDER.
  
SENTIMENTAL CHARITY.
  
TEMPORA MUTANTUR.
  
ON A CLERICAL GAMESTER.
  
A QUERY.
  
ON A FEMALE WASP.
  
AN APPEAL.
  
La Consolation dérniére.
  
TO A FRIEND, ON HIS BEING LAMPOONED.
  
ON A DULL DIVINE WHO PREACHED UP “PATIENCE.”
  
MORAL ARITHMETIC.
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EPITAPHS.
  
ON WILLIAM WALLEY, M.D.
  
ON A GRAVE-STONE
  
ON THE DEATH OF AN OLD FAMILY ACQUAINTANCE.
  
ON A YOUNG LADY, WHO DIED OF A CONSUMPTION.
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ELEGIES.
  
ON SEDUCTION.
  
WRITTEN IN AN EVENING STROLL TO TWYFORD CHURCH.

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SONNET XIII.

On being censured for collecting Epitaphs.

By marble cenotaph, or grassy mound,
The lay funereal studious to explore,
As slow I traverse thro' the church-yard's bound,
Or mid the chancel's ancient relics pore,
And add some ‘frail memorial’ to my store
Ere yet in pensiveness I quit the ground;
Not idle deem the monitory lore,
Which from the page of fate I gather round:
For he who frequent marks Life's final goal,
May learn to estimate its course more true,
May bid his thought the high career pursue,
Where years eternal their dread courses roll,
And Truth decrees an amaranthine prize
For him who wins on earth to wear amid the skies.
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