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The poems of George Huddesford

... now first collected. Including Salmagundi, Topsy-Turvy, Bubble and Squeak, and Crambe Repetita. With corrections, and original additions

Huddesford, George (1749-1809)

VOL. I.

[dedication]

SALMAGUNDI.

To RICHARD WYATT, Esq. ON LEAVING HIS MANSION AFTER ASCOT RACES.

AMATORY ODES.

ELEGY. WRITTEN AT SEA.

PHILEMON.

WHITSUNTIDE.

CHRISTMAS.

FREE IMITATION OF A LATIN ODE,

SONG.

THE RENOWNED HISTORY AND RARE ACHIEVEMENTS OF JOHN WILKES.

SONG.

A CRUST FOR A CONVEYANCER.

THE NOBLE SANS-CULOTTE.

BALLAD ON THE BREAKING OF THE WATER-HEAD, NEAR WINDSOR GREAT PARK,

WILLIAM OF WICKHAM,

THE HERMITAGE.

THE BARBER'S NUPTIALS.

A MORSEL FOR A MUSSULMAN:

SONNET. TO THE RED-BREAST.

SONNET, WRITTEN AT A FARM.

THE PARADOX:

ADDRESS OF AN INDIAN GIRL TO AN ADDER.

TO A GRASSHOPPER.

IMITATION FROM THE GREEK.

LINES ON THE LATE AMERICAN WAR.

EXTEMPORE

THE SYSTEM SHATTERED.

EPIGRAMS.

IMPROMPTU,

MONODY ON THE DEATH OF DICK, AN ACADEMICAL CAT.

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VOL. II.

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALEXANDER LORD LOUGHBOROUGH, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN, IN GRATITUDE FOR FAVOUR SPONTANEOUSLY CONFERRED, AND ENHANCED BY URBANITY AND LIBERAL CONDESCENSION, THESE POEMS ARE, WITH PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY HIS LORDSHIP'S MOST OBEDIENT, AND OBLIGED HUMBLE SERVANT, GEORGE HUDDESFORD. March 1, 1801.