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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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So roam'd The Hero: such his joyless youth:
His early manhood such: wherever thrown,
In every region—every soil and clime—
In every scene, with unremitting ills
Hemm'd and pursu'd: in dangers, and in woes.
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