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Poems

Chiefly Written in Retirement, By John Thelwall; With Memoirs of the Life of the Author. Second Edition
Thelwall, John (1764-1834)

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EFFUSIONS OF SOCIAL and RELATIVE AFFECTION.
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ELEGY On the death of a favourite Schoolfellow, Phillip Bonafous, who died of the small pox, in 1785.
  
Elegy, written during the Festival of Christmas, 1785.
  
Elegy, written in 1786, at a time when the subject of Imprisonment for Debt was much discussed.
  
Sonnet to the Nightingale. 1788.
  
Lines presented by the Author, to his Mother, together with a crutch stick.
  
Stanzas On a clay candlestick, given to the Author by an esteemed and valuable friend.
  
EXTEMPORE, On receiving a Rose from his Sister.
  
The Invitation.
  
STANZAS written in 1790.
  
EPISTLE to MERCUTIO.
  
HARVEY.
  
Invocation to Poetry.
  
STANZAS To Rosa Bella Bianca, on her Birth-day.
  
To Stella in the Country, Dec. 1796.
  
The Tartan Pladdie.
  
To Stella.
  
Lines, written at Bridgewater, in Somersetshire, on the 27th of July, 1797; during a long excursion, in quest of a peaceful retreat.
  
The Farewell.
  
The Reply.
  
On leaving the Bottoms of Glocestershire; where the Author had been entertained by several families with great hospitality.
  
The Woodbine.
  
To the Infant Hampden.—Written during a sleepless night.
  
MARIA.
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PATERNAL TEARS.
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EFFUSION I. Llys-Wen, Feb. 1800.
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EFFUSION II. In the Vale of Taff. May 13, 1800.
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EFFUSION III. On the Banks of the Wye. May 15, 1800.
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EFFUSION IV. During a severe Indisposition. May 18, 1800.
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EFFUSION V. In the Vale of Taff. June, 1800.
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EFFUSION VI. On returning from a Journey to Merthyr Tydfil. June, 1800.
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EFFUSION VII. On Stella's leaving me, to Visit some Friends, at Hereford, with a View to the Restoration of her Health. Llys-Wen. June, 1800.
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EFFUSION VIII. At Merthyr Tydfil. June, 1800.
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EFFUSION IX. After having spent a Part of the preceding Day in cheerful Society. Llys-Wen. Sept. 14, 1800.
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EFFUSION X. CERRIG-ENION:
  
The HARP on the WILLOW.
  
INVOCATION TO HEALTH.
  
THE ORPHAN BOY.
  
Amatory Sonnet.
  
Another.
  
THE FALL OF EGYPT;
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Specimens of THE HOPE OF ALBION;
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THE HOPE OF ALBION.
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BOOK THE FIRST.
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BOOK THE SECOND.

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EFFUSION V. In the Vale of Taff. June, 1800.

THE Blackbird whistles from the pendant groves
That fringe thy varied banks, meandering Taff,
And every spray is vocal. Thro' thy vale
Smiles green Fertility; and, on thy heights,
Of hoar sublimity, in varied form,
Romantic Grandeur sits. Each object blends
(Wild wood, and cultur'd farm, and rocky bank
That mocks the hand of Labour) to adorn
The vary'd scene, cheering the lonely way—
If ought could now be cheerful. But in vain!
Mountain nor vale delight, nor cultur'd scene,
Nor Nature's wilder grace. In these sad eyes,
The vernal year is blasted: from the blight
That nipt my budding hopes in thee, Maria!
Never to be renew'd. That heavy woe
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Hangs, like a cloud, upon my blunted sense,
That tracing heeds not; but, amid such scenes
As once to kindling ecstasy could wake
The bounding heart, calls for sepulchral gloom,
To my sad thoughts congenial: those sad thoughts
(Constant to anguish) that around thy tomb
(O! beauteous and beloved!) hover still,
Nor hope for rest—but in such rest as thine!
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