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Poems, chiefly dramatic and lyric

by the Revd. H. Boyd ... containing the following dramatic poems: The Helots, a tragedy, The Temple of Vesta, The Rivals, The Royal Message. Prize Poems, &c. &c

Boyd, Henry

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS OF MOIRA, BARONESS HASTINGS, &c. &c

TO THE REV. EDWARD BERWICK,

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THE HELOTS. A TRAGEDY.

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THE HELOTS. A TRAGEDY.

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THE TEMPLE OF VESTA, A DRAMATIC POEM.

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THE TEMPLE OF VESTA.

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THE ROYAL MESSAGE,

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THE ROYAL MESSAGE.

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PRIZE, POEMS, ODES, ELEGIES, &c. &c.

HYMN TO SILENCE,

THE GENIUS OF THE WHITE ROSE,

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ODE THE FIRST. THE SHEPHERD'S DREAM.

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ODE THE SECOND. THE SHEPHERD'S NUPTIALS.

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ODE THE THIRD. THE SHEPHERD'S VOYAGE.

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ODE THE FOURTH. THE SHEPHERD'S RETURN.

ON THE BIRTH DAY OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF MOIRA, BARONESS HASTINGS, &c. &c.

ON THE BIRTH DAY OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS OF MOIRA, BARONESS HASTINGS, &c. &c.

ON THE BIRTH DAY OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF MOIRA, BARONESS HASTINGS, &c. &c.

TO CHARLES WILLIAM BURY, ESQ. ON HIS RETURN FROM ITALY, 1789.

VERSES, LEFT AT THE REV. PETER TURPIN'S,

TO JOSEPH COOPER WALKER, ESQ. M. R. I. A.

TO JOSEPH COOPER WALKER, ESQ. M. R. I. A. &c. &c.

TO WILLIAM PRESTON, ESQ. ON HIS TRAGEDY, ENTITLED DEMOCRATIC RAGE.

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TO THE REV. JOHN SMYTH, ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG FRIEND, 1779.

ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. THOMAS STEWART,

TO THE REV. DR. LESLIE,

ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOHN RAWDON, LATE EARL OF MOIRA,

SPECIMEN OF THE CAPTIVES,

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CHARLEMONT, &c.

TO THE RIGHT REVEREND THOMAS PERCY, LORD BISHOP OF DROMORE,

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TO JOSEPH COOPER WALKER, ESQ. M. R. I. A.

AND MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIES OF PERTH, CORTONA, AND ROME,

ON HIS EMBARKING FOR ITALY, 1791.

Sic te Diva potens Cypri
Sic fratres Helenæ, lucida Sidera
Ventorumque regat Pater, &c.
Hor. Lib. 1. Ode 3.

May the twin sons of Music, and Empress of Love,
The genii of Eirin, preside o'er your way;
May your vessel be built from Calliope's grove,
And her sisters, turn'd sea-nymphs, the pageant convey.

May the sovereign of storms, in his gloomy bastile,
Confine every gale, but the soft-breathing west,
Till gentle Parthenope lave the swift keel,
And the green shores of Italy hail their new guest.

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May the minstrels of Eirin, from Lethe's lone strand,
By you re-conducted, to Virgil resign,
In a full sounding pæan, that elegant hand,
Whose well-woven chaplet their temples entwine!

For, not like a thoughtless, young spendthrift he goes,
For trifles, to barter his morals, or fame,
But to find, where the sisters of science repose
And relume on our shores, the Pierian flame.

The humblest of bards, but the warmest of friends,
For many a social, and classical day
This slender memorial of amity sends,
Where friendship, not genius, awakens the lay.

Castor and Pollux, the sons of Leda and Jupiter, in the form of a swan, supposed, in the Mythological System, to preside over voyages.

The ancient name of the bay of Naples.

History of the Irish Bards, by Mr. Walker.

Virgil's Tomb stands near Naples.