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Original poems on several subjects

In two volumes. By William Stevenson

Stevenson, William (ca. 1719-1783)

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I.

An HYMN TO THE DEITY.

THE THEORY OF TEARS.

THE PROGRESS OF EVENING; OR, THE POWER OF VIRTUE.

RURAL SPORTS, Descriptive and Elegiac.

From PHANOR, A Lover with a small Patrimony,

EPILOGUE On the same Occasion.

To the Author of Douglas and Agis.

On the Ruins of an old ELM.

To Doctor AKENSIDE.

To Miss J---y T---tt---r, Appearing often at her Window with her Hat on.

Miss G---tt to the Author;

To DANIEL N---, Esq

ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ.

On a Foreigner's losing a considerable Sum of Money at a Gaming-table with a Sharper.

On an Author who pleaded Poverty as an excuse for Printing.

To A CLERGYMAN Too fond of appearing in Print.

II.

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To DANIEL N---, Esq

Tell me, just from the doctor's hands,
Secure from his and death's demands;
Say, Daniel from the lion's den,
Can doctors e'er be honest men,
Who, praying for their daily bread,
Wish men diseas'd, though better dead?
Yes, doctors honest you may call,
For doctors seldom pray at all.