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The Poems of St. George Tucker of Williamsburg, Virginia 1752-1827

Tucker, St. George (1752-1827)

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POEMS AMONG FRIENDS

Written on Miss Cocke's Wedding Day.

The Belles of Williamsburg

A Dream on Bridecake

A Second Dream on Bridecake

Christmas Verses for the Printer's Devil, 1784

To Mr. Page on His Marriage

To Mr. Page On His Marriage to Miss Lowther

Hymn to the Creator

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[1 The charge to battle should Bellona sound]

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[2 God's! To Elysium what a passport's here]

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[3 A subject to write a farce on]

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[4 Columbia's flag displays an emblem bright]

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[7 Quoth Jed to Tim, where did our John]

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[13 When lovely Sappho on the guitar plays]

To William Nelson Esq., of Charles-City

To Miss Fanny Currie

The Sick Man's Return for a Kiss

The Reflections of a Man in His Grand Climacteric

Lines, Supposed to Have Been Found Upon the Palace Green at Williamsburg On May Day, 1816

Occasioned by Some Remarks on the Word “Prancing,” in the Preceding by Three Scrupulous Ladies

Be Merry and Wise

On Mrs. Lucy Nelson (the General's Widow) Attending the Communion Table at Church on a very Cold Day

Written on Christmas Day, 1820

PATRIOTIC POEMS

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[13 When lovely Sappho on the guitar plays]

When lovely Sappho on the guitar plays
A gentle rill comes trickling thru' her stays,
Till overwhelmed with exercise and heat
She seems a water nymph; dissolved in sweat.