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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.
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VOL. IV.
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TALES OF THE HOY;
  
[epigraph]
  
['Twas in that month when Nature drear]
  
THE PRAISE OF MARGATE.
  
AN ODE OF CONDOLENCE TO GEORGE ROSE, ESQ.
  
[Whate'er from dirty Thames to Margate goes]
  
[Now, as our immortal Milton sublimely would have sung:]
  
[Or, as the no less immortal author of Hudibras would have quaintly said;]
  
[Again, as the illustrious Butler would have said, or sung:]
  
[Thus oft it happens that the sky]
  
SONG.
  
CORINNA'S EPITAPH.
  
SONG.
  
THE WIDOW OF EPHESUS;
  
THE DRUNKEN FLY.
  
VERSES ON A FLY
  
Verses on the Fall of the Statue of Apollo from the Summit of the Organ, on the Head of Shield, as he was playing.
  
POOR TOM.
  
THE SHEPHERD'S PIPE.
  
[Thus, as the flocks amid the valley feed]
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TEARS AND SMILES;
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ORSON AND ELLEN;
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NEW-OLD BALLADS.
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ODES.
  
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO BENJAMIN COUNT RUMFORD, Knight of the White Eagle, &c. &c.
  
THE ISLAND OF INNOCENCE;
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THE MIDDLESEX ELECTION;
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PITT AND HIS STATUE;
  
LORD B--- AND HIS MOTIONS.
  
PROH IMPUDENTIAM! AN ODE.
  
TEMPORA MUTANTUR.
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GREAT CRY AND LITTLE WOOL;
  
AN INSTRUCTIVE EPISTLE TO JOHN PERRING, ESQ. Lord Mayor of London;
  
THE HORRORS OF BRIBERY;
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TRISTIA;
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ONE MORE PEEP AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY;
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ODES TO THE HEADS.
  
ANTICIPATION: OR, THE PRIZE ADDRESS;
  
A SOLEMN SENTIMENTAL, AND REPROBATING EPISTLE TO MRS. CLARKE.
  
A SECOND SOLEMN, SENTIMENTAL, AND REPROBATING, EPISTLE TO MRS. CLARKE.
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CARLTON-HOUSE FETE;

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409

TO GARRARD.

The Poet uttereth very handsome Things of Mr. Garrard—and adviseth him to support his prover Dignity, and despise the academic Honours.

Garrard, thou Myron of the age,
Whose works the eye of Taste engage,
Where is thy cattle, that delight affords?—
What, none!—Now, Garrard, to be free,
More pleas'd, indeed, am I to see
A thinking bull's head than a thoughtless lord's!
Refus'd the academic crown,
Thou losest nothing of renown:—
Trust to true genius, which thou dost inherit—
Beyond the reach of Envy's breath,
The cold, the chilling blast of Death,
For ever warring with the blooms of Merit.
Th' Academy (ah! fie upon her!)
Can now confer no crown of honour;
She asks submission mean, and oaths most hearty—
She hunts not for ingenious folk—
The pencil's pow'rs are now a joke—
She only wants a tool to serve a party.
In vain thou knockest at the door;
Knock at th' Academy no more,
And to such small ambition bid adieu:—
Who on a mouse's paltry hole
Would fix the wishes of his soul,
While Fame's fair temple opens to his view?
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