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Lewesdon Hill, with other poems

By the Rev. William Crowe ... a corrected and much enlarged edition, with notes

Crowe, William (1745-1829)

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INSCRIBED BENEATH THE PICTURE OF AN ASS.

ODE TO THE LYRIC MUSE.

ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK.

ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF DR. W. HAYES, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

THE BRITISH THEATRE.

ON TWO PUBLICATIONS, ENTITLED EDITIONS OF TWO OF OUR POETS.

TO A YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN,

SONNET TO PETRARCH.

TRANSLATION OF A GREEK INSCRIPTION UPON A FOUNTAIN .

FROM LUCRETIUS.

FROM LUCRETIUS.

FROM LUCRETIUS.

MIDNIGHT DEVOTION.

FRAGMENT.

FROM PURCHASE'S PILGRIMAGE,

THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE.

ON TWO ENGLISH POETS,

ON THE FUNERAL OF ------,

AN EXPOSTULATORY SUPPLICATION TO DEATH,

ON THE DECEASE OF HORNE TOOKE.

ON FIELD-MARSHAL SUWOROW.

ON F. W. THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S INEFFECTUAL ATTEMPT ON WARSAW.

POLITICAL ADVICE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH CONVENTION.

WRITTEN WHEN BUONAPARTE WAS ALTERING THE GOVERNMENTS OF GERMANY.

SUGGESTED BY READING DRYDEN'S BRITANNIA REDIVIVA,

ON THE INCREASE OF HUMAN LIFE.

ODE TO THE KING OF FRANCE. 1823.

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FRAGMENT.

King Richard in the gray Tower sate,
Captive of Austria's haughty Lord,
In a strange land, unhonour'd, unexplored,
To felon durance changed his royal state.
Pale was his haggard eye,
And sunk his cheek, to stern captivity
In all—all but in his Lion heart subdued:
He sate in melancholy solitude,

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And sadly gazed upon the setting sun,
As down the heavenly road,
That all with purple glow'd,
It wested toward his realm of Albion.