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Poems

By Mr. Polwhele. In three volumes

Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

II.

III.

COMIC AND MOCK-HEROIC PIECES.

PASTORAL PIECES.

ELEGIAC PIECES.

THE ELEGIES OF TYRTÆUS.

THE EPITAPH ON ADONIS.

THE EPITAPH ON BION

THE LOCK TRANSFORMED.

OSSIAN DEPARTING TO HIS FATHERS.

TO MRS. POLWHELE

ON AN APPLE-TREE FULL OF BLOSSOM, SEPT. 11, 1798.

TO OLIVIA MELIORA

THE POOR SPARROW OF THE INFIRMARY, 1800.

THE SCARLET FEVER.

JANUARY 1, 1805.

ON LAWRENCE POLWHELE,

EPISTLES.

SONNETS.

SONGS.

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Oft, too, with accurate attention watch
The empire's hoary fabric! See, where clings
Corruption, mining deep its massy strength
With slow corrosive canker; nor remit
Thine efforts, to destroy the deadly bane.