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Poems
By Mr. Polwhele. In three volumes
Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)
I.
VOL. I.
II.
VOL. II.
III.
VOL. III.
LYRIC PIECES.
HEROIC PIECES.
COMIC AND MOCK-HEROIC PIECES.
PASTORAL PIECES.
ELEGIAC PIECES.
EPISTLES.
SONNETS.
FRIENDSHIP.
TO THE EVENING STAR.
THE REDBREASTS.
THE WOODCOCK.
TO A YOUNG LADY OF FOURTEEN.
TO EMILIA.
ADDREST TO TWO INGENIOUS YOUNG LADIES.
TO MISS S.
TO HIS INFANT MARIA.
TO A YOUNG LADY.
ON A VISIT TO POLWHELE NEAR TRURO, WITH HIS CHILDREN, A SHORT TIME AFTER HIS FIRST WIFE'S DEATH.
TO THE VICAR OF MANACCAN'S NUMEROUS PIGEONS, JUST AS THE AUTHOR WAS PREPARING TO SHOOT THEM.
A WINTER EVENING SCENE.
TO THE AUTHOR'S MOTHER, DURING HER ILLNESS, 1797.
WRITTEN, DECEMBER 19, 1804; THE DAY OF HIS MOTHER'S BURIAL IN THE FAMILY VAULT AT ST. CLEMENT'S NEAR TRURO.
SONGS.
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Fear not an unconnected style, too lax
In negligent expression; since thy mind,
With previous reading stor'd, hath power to prune
The excrescent phrase familiar converse loves.
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