University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The Poetical Works of Percival Stockdale

In two volumes
Stockdale, Percival (1736-1811)
  
[epigraph]

collapse sectionI. 
VOL. I.
  
THE POET;
  
POETICAL EXCURSIONS IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
  
AN ELEGY;
collapse section 
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:
collapse section 
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.
collapse section 
[subsection]
  
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.
collapse sectionII. 
VOL. II.
collapse section 
THE AMYNTAS OF TASSO.
  
[Ye, who your minds from pageantry withdraw]
collapse section 
AMYNTAS
  
THE PROLOGUE.
collapse sectionI. 
ACT I.
 I. 
SCENE I.
 II. 
SCENE II.
collapse sectionII. 
ACT II.
 I. 
SCENE I.
 II. 
SCENE II.
 III. 
SCENE III.
collapse sectionIII. 
ACT III.
 I. 
SCENE I.
 II. 
SCENE II.
collapse sectionIV. 
ACT IV.
 I. 
SCENE I.
 II. 
SCENE II.
collapse sectionV. 
ACT V.
 I. 
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.
collapse section 
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.

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
previous section The Poetical Works of Percival Stockdale
next section
374

THE BLUE EYE.

Marked you her eye of heavenly blue?
Marked you her cheek of roseate hue?
That eye in liquid circles moving,
That cheek abashed at man's approving:
The one, love's arrows darting round;
The other, blushing at the wound!
IN THE DUENNA.
previous section The Poetical Works of Percival Stockdale
next section