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Poems on Several Occasions

By Edward, Lord Thurlow. The Second Edition, considerably enlarged
Thurlow, Edward Hovell-Thurlow (1781-1829)

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VERSES PREFIXED TO THE DEFENCE OF POËSY.
  
HERMILDA.
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SYLVA:
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3. ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE EARL OF MOIRA, TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
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4. A SONG, TO AMORET.
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6. A DIALOGUE OF TWO SHEPHERDS.
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8. A SONG.
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10. A SONG.
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17. TO THE VERY NOBLE, AND ACCOMPLISHED, THE LORD HOLLAND:
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22. TO A LADY:
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30. ON THE MANY ATTACKS MADE BY LATE WRITERS ON THE MEMORY OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
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31. FROM ANACREON.
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33. FROM THE ITALIAN OF DIANA SAMPIERI, OF OTRICOLI. ON A LADY BATHING.
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35. A SONG.
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36. THE FIRST PSALM.
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37. THE INDUCTION TO MY POEM, WHICH I DESIGNED TO WRITE; ENTITLED, “ENGLAND TRIUMPHANT.”
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38. THE PRAISE OF PINDAR, AND THEN OF AUGUSTUS:
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40. ON THE QUEEN'S PASSING THROUGH OTRICOLI, ON HER WAY TO ROME.
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41. ON THE QUEEN CHRISTINA'S ENTRANCE INTO OTRICOLI; DECEMBER 18, 1654.
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42. ON BEHOLDING MR. DENT'S LIBRARY, IN HERTFORD-STREET.
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45. FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE.
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47. ON MR. TODD'S EDITION OF SPENSER.
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58. THE LEGEND OF THE KNIGHT OF ILLYRIA.
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59. THE THIRD ELEGY OF THE THIRD BOOK OF TIBULLUS.
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61. FROM HORACE.
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62. FROM HORACE. THE THIRTEENTH ODE OF THE BOOK OF EPODES.

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61. FROM HORACE.

“EXEGI MONUMENTUM AERE PERENNIUS.”

My monument is built, more hard than brass,
More than the Pyramids sublime,
Though that of mighty kings the labour was;
Which not the idle North, nor wasting rain,
Nor yet shall see in ruin lain
Th' unnumber'd race of years, and flight of Time.
All shall not die, but much of me
Shall shun th' unwilling destiny:
For I shall but enlarge in future praise,
As doth the Universe in days;
Long as the Pontiff, and the silent maid shall move
Up to the Capitol of Jove.
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I shall be sung, upon the shore
Of Aufidus, whose deaf'ning roar
Affrights th' Apulian swain; and where
Old Daunus held his regal state,
A prince from humble fortune great,
And ruled his country realms in water poor;
The first, that to Italia brought
Th' Æolian song, and to her shepherds taught:
Take, then, for this, O Muse, thy rightful praise,
And, whilst th' admiring World doth on thy beauty gaze,
Bind on my brow the Delphic bays!
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