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Nugae Modernae

Morning thoughts, and midnight musings: consisting of casual reflections, egotisms, &c. In prose and verse. By Thomas Park
Park, Thomas (1759-1834)
 
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[dedication]

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VERSE.
 
DAY-BREAK.
 
EPITAPH FOR A BABE.
 
CONTENTMENT VINDICATED, AND SPLEEN REPELLED.
 
AN APOLOGY FOR MY GARDEN .
 
ON QUITTING A COTTAGE RESIDENCE.
 
THE FILBERD-TREE.
 
A CONCEIT.
 
TO E. W. AUTHOR OF “THE VILLAGE SUNDAY:”
 
TO MARIA-HESTER.
 
THE BROAD AND NARROW WAY CONTRASTED.
 
TRUE DIGNITY.
 
A MIDNIGHT MUSING.
 
WRITTEN IN MY “COMPANION TO THE ALTAR.”
 
TO THE AUTHOR OF “THE SABBATH,” AND OTHER CONTEMPLATIVE POEMS.
 
WRITTEN ON THE PIER-HEAD AT DOVER, AFTER A VISIT TO DENTON-COURT, THE SEAT OF SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, BART.
 
ON READING THE POEMS OF HURDIS, AFTER A PERUSAL OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS'S ACADEMIC DISCOURSE ON GAINSBOROUGH.
 
LINES WRITTEN WHILE THE SUBJECT OF THEM WAS TAKING AN AFTERNOON NAP IN HER ELBOW-CHAIR.
 
SOMNIUM JUCUNDISSIMUM.
 
TO E. H., ESQ.
 
A WALKING RUMINATION.
 
TO THE POET LAUREATE, AFTER READING HIS EPIC ENTITLED “MADOC.”
 
TO THE REV. HAY DRUMMOND,
 
INSCRIPTION FOR AN IVY BOWER.
 
TO EDWARD, LORD THURLOW,
 
TO MARIA-HESTER.
 
TO THE SAME.
 
TO THE SAME:
 
ON HEARING OF THE DEATH OF BISHOP THOMAS, WHILE AT TUNBRIDGE-WELLS, IN KENT.
 
THE WIDOWER.
 
OCCASIONED BY THE POEMS OF DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN, First printed in 1616.
 
RETROSPECTION.
 
TO MRS. G.
 
TO C.-C. P. WITH BISHOP WILSON'S “SACRA PRIVATA.”
 
TRUE NEPENTHE.
 
PHANTASMA.
 
[Such feeling prompts a passing culogy]
 
TO MRS. W.
 
ON PUTTING A FAMILY RING UPON MY FINGER, WITH THE MOTTO “MEMENTO MORI.”
 
REMEMBRANCE.
 
OBLOQUY INVITABLE.
 
SPIRITUAL ASPIRATION.
 
TO MR. MESSER, ON THE LOSS OF HIS SON ISAAC.
 
A MIDNIGHT MUSING.
 
ANNE LAWSON .
 
TO MISS P. ON HER REMOVAL FROM HAMPSTEAD.
 
TO MISS D. ON RETURNING SOME COMMENDATORY VERSES, WHICH EXPRESSED A WISH THAT THE OBJECT OF HER CHOICE MIGHT BE HEAVEN-CHOSEN.
 
TO MR. B. WHEN HIS WIFE WAS INCAPABLE OF TAKING NOURISHMENT AFTER HAVING RECEIVED THE LORD'S SUPPER.
 
THE DEATH-SONG OF A CHRISTIAN.
 
TO A PIOUS YOUNG FRIEND.
 
ALLODIUM SEPULCHRALE: OR, THE POET'S LANDED PROPERTY.
 
GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO.

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EPITAPH FOR A BABE.

Pure as a vernal morn's cerulean hue,
Bright as a noon-day cloud o'er ether driven,
Brief as a glistening gem of vesper dew,
“It sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.”
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