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The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton

with an essay on the Rowley poems by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat and a memoir by Edward Bell
Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

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Vol. I.
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I. Poems written before 1769.
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II. Poems written in 1769.
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III. Poems written in 1770.
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IV. Miscellaneous Poems, &c.
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VOL. II.

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VI.

Sir Roger.
Revolve thine eye around this hayèd mee;
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Attentively look round the thirsty dell;
An answer to thy barganette here see,
This withered floweret will a lesson tell;
It rose, it blew, it flourished, and did well,
Looking askance upon the neighbour green;
Yet with the 'dainèd green its glory fell,
Eftsoons it shrank upon the day-burnt plain,
Did not its look, whilest it there did stand,
To crop it in the bud move some dread hand.

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