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Miscellanies (1785)

(1749-1814)

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SYMPATHY, A POEM.

TO THE AUTHOR OF SYMPATHY,

TO THE AUTHOR OF SYMPATHY

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II.

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THE TEARS OF GENIUS.

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THE TEARS OF GENIUS,

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THE ART OF RISING ON THE STAGE.

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III.

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POEMS FROM THE ANNUAL REGISTER.

THE PARTRIDGES:

EXTRACTED FROM VERSES,

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POETICAL PIECES FROM LIBERAL OPINIONS.

ELEGY OF A NIGHTINGALE,

EPITAPH ON A LAP-DOG.

SOLILOQUIES OF A HIGHWAYMAN.

ODE TO A SCHOOL-FELLOW.

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES,

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EPITAPH ON ------

TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN DRUMMOND, A BRAVE YOUNG OFFICER.

SILVANA, THE HIGHLAND SHEPHERDESS.

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BALLAD POEMS FROM EMMA CORBET, AND SONGS.

VERSES WRITTEN IN THE MOMENTS OF WAITING AN INTERVIEW.

ADDRESS TO A LOCKET.

WITH A PRESENT OF SOME PENS SENT TO EMMA.

PLEASING AND TEASING.

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PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES.

PROLOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF CATO.

PROLOGUE, WRITTEN FOR MRS. HUNTER, AT BIRMINGHAM.

AN OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE, WRITTEN FOR MRS. SIDDONS AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

EPILOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF THE FATAL INTERVIEW.

PROLOGUE FOR THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MRS. SIMPSON.

PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN OF CHINA.

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STANZAS, FROM MISS SEWARD'S MONODY ON THE DEATH OF LADY MILLAR.

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THE SHADOWS OF SHAKESPEARE:

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THE SYSTEM OF PYTHAGORAS.

THE FAMILY OF TIME:

DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS.

ODE TO THE SUN.

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MISCELLANEOUS VERSES.

THE ROSE-TREE, THE GARDENER, AND THE SHRUBS.

UPON THE CONNEXION OF THE AUTHOR

TO DOCTOR LETTSOM,

TO Mrs. SIDDONS's CHILDREN,

THE OPENING OF THE NINTH BOOK OF THE HENRIADE TRANSLATED .

THE CASKET. TO A FRIEND UNDER PAIN FROM A FEW POINTED OBSERVATIONS.

WRITTEN EXTEMPORE

TO MISS SAWBRIDGE.

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MRS. SHERIDAN ON HER BROTHER'S LYRE.

HER BROTHER's LYRE

TO MISS C. BRACKENBURY, OF COPT-FOLD-HALL, IN ESSEX.

A SILFPHID's GREETING,

THE TWO LEECHES

THE PASSION FLOWER

ACREONTIC BURLESQUE.

A LOVER'S QUARREL.

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Yon spacious dome, which earth and sea commands,
Where Lelius dresses his paternal lands;
Where water gushes, and where woods extends,
To share each beauty, Lelius calls his friends;
A desert scene, 'till they adorn his bow'rs;
A naked waste, till they partake his flow'rs,
Nor this, though sweet, the greatest bliss he feels,
That greatest bliss his modesty conceals.
Pass the green slope which bounds his fair domain,
And seek the valley drooping from the plain;
There, in a blossom'd nook, by pomp unseen,
An aged couple lead a life serene;
And there, behind those elms, a sickly pair
Exchange their labours for a softer care:
'Twas Lelius that gave to sickness this repose,
And plac'd life's second cradle near th' rose;
In his own hall though louder joys prevail,
A dearer transport whispers from the vale;

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Though mirth and frolic echo thro' the dome,
In those small cots his bosom finds a home.
Fame, fortune, friends, can Providence give more?
Go, ask of Heav'n the blessings of the poor!
A greater comfort would you still supply?
Then wipe the tear from Sorrow's streaming eye;
For social kindness to another shown,
Expands the bliss to make it more your own.