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Original Poems

Serious and Humourous. By Mr. Henry Baker

Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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An Hymn to JUPITER.

A SERIOUS REFLECTION On Human Life.

A SONG. To FLORA.

The Complaint. An Elegy.

To FLORA Drest.

The Meditation.

AMANDA's CHARACTER.

The Resolution.

THE SPINNING-WHEEL.

A Proof of LOVE.

To Mrs. Jane Forster,

DAMON and CLOE.

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On the Death of Mrs. Halsey,

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III.

IV.

V.

VI.

On Mrs. ------ S---'s

To a Deaf young Lady.

To a Painter: drawing her Picture.

The Comparison.

To FLORA. A SONG.

The Execration.

The Beauties of Enfield.

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Miranda smiling like the Month of May,
Mild as the Dawning, brighter than the Day.
How fair the Flow'r, when such the Bud appears!
And what her Prime, when thus her Infant-Years!