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The Works of Peter Pindar [i.e. John Wolcot]

... With a Copious Index. To which is prefixed Some Account of his Life. In Four Volumes
Pindar, Peter (1738-1819)

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VOL. I.
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VOL. II.
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VOL. III.
  
CELEBRATION;
  
HAIR POWDER;
  
FROGMORE FETE;
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THE ROYAL TOUR, AND WEYMOUTH AMUSEMENTS;
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THE CONVENTION BILL;
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ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX;
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LIBERTY'S LAST SQUEAK;
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AN ODE TO THE LIVERY OF LONDON,
  
AN ODE TO SIR JOSEPH BANKS,
  
[advertisement]
  
A JEREMI-AD, ADDRESSED TO GEORGE ROSE, ESQ. OF THE TREASURY.
  
A COMMISERATING EPISTLE TO JAMES LOWTHER, EARL OF LONSDALE AND LOWTHER, Lord Lieut. and Cust. Rot. of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland.
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PINDARIANA;
  
TO THE PUBLIC.
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PROLOGUE.
  
HYMN TO THE GUILLOTINE.
  
THE PROUD OLD MAID.
  
EARLY PROPENSITIES.
  
INVITATION TO CYNTHIA.
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KISSES.
  
THE OLD SHEPHERD'S DOG.
  
JENNY'S COMPLAINT.
  
ODE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
  
THE OWL AND PARROT.
  
AN ANACREONTIC.
  
A TRANSLATION
  
ODE TO COFFEE.
  
ODE.
  
SUSAN AND THE SPIDER.
  
VERSES TO A WHITE SATIN PETTICOAT,
  
THE TINKER, AND MILLER'S DAUGHTER.
  
MELANCHOLY.
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THE DRUID HYMN TO THE SUN.
  
TO CHLOE.
  
THE BLIND BEGGAR.
  
ANACREONTIC SONG.
  
A PASTORAL SONG.
  
GOOD FRIDAY.
  
ODE TO A PRETTY BAR-MAID.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
ODE TO A HEDGE-SPARROW,
  
TO ANACREON.
  
THE CAPTIVE QUEEN.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
TO TIME.
  
ODE TO JEALOUSY.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
ODE TO THE LADIES OF ENGLAND.
  
TO CYNTHIA.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
THE LADY'S LAP DOG AND THE COACHMAN.
  
ODE TO THE POET DELILLE.
  
TRANSLATION FROM GALLUS.
  
A SECOND ODE TO THE POET DELILLE.
  
FROM ANACREON.
  
MAY DAY.
  
PHILLIDA'S COMPLAINT.
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A THIRD ODE TO THE POET DELILLE.
  
AZID;
  
TO CYNTHIA.
  
THE CRUELTY OF ÆNEAS TO QUEEN DIDO.
  
THE WORLD.
  
ON GENIUS.
  
TO A YOUNG LADY,
  
SONG.
  
FROM ANACREON.
  
TO NANCY OF THE ROSE.
  
FROM ANACREON.
  
ODE.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
MODES OF COURTSHIP.
  
DEVONSHIRE-HOB'S LOVE.
  
TOM AND DOLLY.
  
SONG.
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SEA COURTSHIP.
  
DAPHNE,
  
MADRIGAL.
  
ODE TO TWO MICE IN A TRAP.
  
THE MISER AND THE DERVISE.
  
TO DELIA.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
TO VENUS.
  
EPITAPH.
  
ODE TO A COUNTRY HOYDEN.
  
THE GRAVE OF EURIPIDES.
  
SONG TO CYNTHIA.
  
HYMN TO LOVE.
  
ODE.
  
SONG.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
LISETTA.
  
CORIN'S PROFESSION,
  
ODE TO UGLINESS.
  
THE TRAVELLER AND JUPITER.
  
SONG.
  
ODE TO MY GOOD FRIEND THE MOST MERCIFUL JUDGE ------.
  
SONG.
  
HYMN TO ADVERSITY.
  
SONG TO SAPPHO.
  
INVOCATION TO ST. CECILIA.
  
ON THE DEATH OF A MUSICAL FRIEND.
  
APOLLO TO THE ANACREONTIC SOCIETY,
  
ODE TO A HANDSOME WIDOW.
  
ODE.
  
OSGAR'S PRAYER.
  
DELIA;
  
MADRIGAL.
  
SONG, BY SYLVIA.
  
ODE TO THE SUN.
  
THE QUEEN OF FRANCE TO HER CHILDREN,
  
TO A LADY,
  
SONG.
  
ODE ON FRENCH TASTE.
  
TO TIME.
  
SONG.
  
TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
  
DINAH;
  
TO CHLOE.
  
THE YOUNG FLY, AND THE OLD SPIDER.
  
MADRIGAL.
  
TO CHLOE.
  
ODE TO A COUNTRY 'SQUIRE,
  
THE COMPLAINT OF MIRZA,
  
HAWKING, A BALLAD
  
ODE TO HEALTH.
  
TO CHLOE.
  
ODE.
  
A LITTLE SKETCH OF A CERTAIN MOST MERCIFUL AND LITTLE JUDGE.
  
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.
  
AN EPITAPH ON A FRIEND.
  
ODE ON THE CHOLERIC CHARACTER.
  
TO MISS HARRINGTON.
  
ANACREON TO HIS LYRE.
  
ODE.
  
THE ADDRESS OF THE FAIRIES TO THE LADIES OF R---, IN CORNWALL:
  
TO CHARLOTTE,
  
TO CYNTHIA.
  
HYMN TO SILENCE.
  
CECILIA.
  
SONG.
  
MADRIGAL.
  
AN APOLOGY FOR INCONSTANCY.
  
HYMN TO LIFE.
  
ODE TO ADMIRAL HOTHAM.
  
TO THE BUTTERFLY.
  
ODE TO THE LION SHIP OF WAR.
  
ODE TO A BUTTERFLY.
  
ODE ON MODERATION.
  
THE SONG OF DISAPPOINTMENT:
  
THE ROYAL VISIT TO EXETER;
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OUT AT LAST.
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LORD AUCKLAND'S TRIUMPH;
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ODES TO INS AND OUTS.
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VOL. IV.

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ODE TO A BUTTERFLY.

Child of the summer's golden hour,
Who, happy, rov'st from flow'r to flow'r,
Now sportive winnowing 'mid th' expanse of air;
O welcome to my little field!
Each leaf of fragrance may it yield!
Yes, dwell with me, and Nature's bounty share.
No black Sir Joseph with his net,
And Jonas , whelm'd with dust and sweat,
Shall rudely chase thee far from my protection;
Wild-leaping ev'ry fence and ditch;
So rank the virtuoso itch,
For making a rare butterfly collection.
Yet round thy paper-gibbet, laud would flow,
Amid the knight's brave breakfasts in Soho;
With rapture shown to toast-and-muffin sages:
With thee too, would the royal Journals ring;
And ev'n thy pretty mealy painted wing
Employ description sweet, for fifty pages!
Yet what, alas! is praise to people dead?
A panegyric on a lump of lead—
Precisely so!
Ye gods, then, let me all my praises hear—
For verily 'tis wisdom to prefer
One grain above ground, to a pound below.
Rare child of ether, pr'ythee then agree
To choose the offer'd field, and dwell with me:
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Here will I mark thee, 'mid thy meals, how chaste!
So busy on the flow'rs of golden hue,
And silver daisies moist with morning dew,
How innocent, how simple thy repast!
Ah! diff'rent far, from us who grossly lave
Our lips in beef and mutton's sanguine wave!
Whilst we, a race barbarian, cruel, slay—
From hog, too, form the dinners of the day—
From hog, that lodg'd of yore the imps of evil !
Intrepid he who ventur'd thus to dine!
Methinks the man who dreamt of eating swine,
Must really next have thought of eating devil.
 

Banks.

Jonas Dryander, the knight's sine quo non.

The history of the herd of swine is universally known as well as believed.

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