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Harvest-Home (1805)

(1749-1814)
  
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VOL. I.
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SUPPLEMENTARY GLEANINGS. HAMPSHIRE STATION.
  
VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF JOSEPH WARTON, D. D. LATE HEAD MASTER OF WINCHESTER-COLLEGE.
  
On a distant View of the English Convents of Nuns, at Winchester. Written on the Day of the Hill-Fair, September 12, 1804.
  
TO Mr. and Mrs. MORREL, WITH FAIRINGS.
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SUPPLEMENTARY GLEANINGS,
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SKETCH OF THE MORAL, PERSONAL, AND DOMESTIC STATE OF THE ARTISANS OF BIRMINGHAM.
  
To the Memory of David Garrick, Who died in the Year 1779, At the Age of 63.
  
LINES Written at Stratford-on-Avon.
  
WARWICK-CASTLE.
  
[“The Muse, first kneeling at Compassion's shrine]
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VOL. III.
  
THE PHYSICIAN;
  
PRAYER TO HEALTH:
  
THE POET'S COTTAGE
  
VERSES TO MR. JOHN MAVOR, OF WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD; WITH A PRESENT OF SOME VIDONIA.
  
TO THE SAME, WITH A REGULATION SASH, ON HIS ENTERING THE LOYAL WOODSTOCK VOLUNTEERS, AS LIEUTENANT.
  
TO MR. HENRY MAVOR, ON THE AUTHOR'S WITNESSING THE SIGNATURE OF HIS INDENTURES NOVEMBER 19, 1803.
  
TO MR. GEORGE MAVOR.
  
VERSES WRITTEN AFTER SEEING THE PICTURES IN THE EARL OF WARWICK'S COLLECTION, WHILE ON A VISIT AT THE CASTLE.
  
TO A LADY , WHO CONVERTED A STRAW COTTAGE INTO A CARD-BOX.
  
THE WOUNDED MIND.
  
THE COUNSELS OF AFFECTION.
  
LINES PRESENTED TO THE SAME, WITH THE “BRITISH NEPOS .”
  
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO Dr. BREE, OF BIRMINGHAM,
  
THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE.
  
TO THE SAME, WITH A NEEDLE-CASE, SENT FROM BATH.
  
QUESTIONS TO CUPID, RESPECTING HENRY HORRIBOW .
  
TO A BEAUTIFUL SPANIEL,
  
MUM'S COT:
  
VERSES, OCCASIONED BY THE LIBERAL OFFER OF A GENTLEMAN AFTER READING “THE POET'S COTTAGE .”
  
TO MRS. ROBERSON, OF OXFORD.
  
TO MRS. BILLINGTON:
  
TO MISS SHARP, ON THE SAME OCCASION.
  
TO A FRIEND, ON RECEIVING A PAIR OF SPECTACLES.
  
ADDRESS TO A SPACIOUS HOLLY TREE BELONGING TO MRS. INGRAM, AT WOOLFORD HOUSE, WARWICKSHIRE.
  
EXTEMPORE, ON HEARING MONSIEUR VON ESCHE'S MARCHE RELIGIEUSE.
  
SONG. SUNG BY NINE SISTERS ABOUT TO SEPARATE.
  
THE TWO SOPHIAS;
  
ON ACCIDENTALLY SEEING A FATHER TAKE LEAVE OF AN ONLY SON.
  
WRITTEN IN THE EMPTY HOUSE OF A FRIEND, ON THE FAMILY QUITTING TOWN.
  
IVY COTTAGE.
  
TO MR. AND MRS. DROUGHT.
  
APOLOGY TO A FRIEND,
  
INVOCATION TO FORTUNE.
  
TO *******, ESQ.
  
TO A FRIEND, WITH A SPRIG OF BALM.
  
TO LADY MOSTYN,
  
SOPHIA'S ADDRESS TO SORROW.
  
THE POET's PETITION.
  
THE TRIBUTE:
  
AN ODE, FOR THE CENTENARY OF THE CHARITY-SCHOOL OF ST. JOHN, WAPPING.
  
THE MODERN HERCULES.
  
TO MRS. VANCOUVER.
  
TO MISS VANCOUVER, ON RECEIVING FROM HER A BOUQUET OF WINTER FLOWERS.
  
TO A LADY,
  
STANZAS TO THE NEW MOON.
  
STANZAS, ON FAVOURABLE WEATHER HAPPENING AFTER THE AUTHOR'S FIRST ADDRESS TO THE NEW MOON.
  
TO A FRIEND IN AFFLICTION, WITH “THE PLEASURES OF HOPE.”
  
TO MR. AND MRS. FONBLANQUE; ON THE DEATH OF ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN.
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THE ELLISTON;
  
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QUESTION I.
  
QUESTION II.
  
QUESTION III.
  
QUESTION IV.
  
EXTEMPORE LINES, PRESENTED ON THE MARRIAGE OF A FRIEND: INCLUDING THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR APPEARING IN BLACK.
  
TO AN OLD MARRIED COUPLE;
  
TO THE MEMORY OF *******.
  
EXTEMPORE.
  
A QUESTION ANSWERED.
  
ON MARGARET PICKARD'S ENTERING HER SIXTH YEAR, JANUARY 1, 1802.
  
THE FATE OF THE BARDS.
  
TO MRS. POTTER, ON CASTING THE AUTHOR'S NATIVITY.
  
TO GEORGIANA BYRON,
  
TO SOPHIA, ON HER BIRTH-DAY.
  
TO A LADY, WITH COWPER'S POEMS ELEGANTLY BOUND.
  
EXTEMPORE. TO MRS. SHEPHERD, IN PAYMENT OF A SHEET OF PAPER.
  
IMPROMPTU, ON MR. PHILLIPS'S LENDING HIS TOWN-HOUSE TO THE AUTHOR.
  
ADDRESS TO THE LYRE.
  
LINES WRITTEN AT A FRIEND'S VILLA AFTER A LONG ABSENCE.
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SONGS.
  
THE CAPTIVE.
  
THE WEAVERS.
  
LIFE.
  
THE FISHERMAN'S SONG.
  
THE FISHERMEN'S FINALE; A CATCH,
  
ON BEING PRESENT AT THE NAMING OF A BEAUTIFUL CHILD.
  
PRESENTED TO THE CHILDREN OF GEORGE BLACKMAN, ESQ. WITH “PITY'S GIFT,” A SELECTION FOR YOUNGER MINDS.
  
WRITTEN AT THE HERMITAGE, NEAR BATH,
  
LINES, WRITTEN AT A FRIEND'S NEAR THE CELEBRATED NURSERY-GARDENS, IN THE KING'S-ROAD CHELSEA.
  
TO FANNY RUNDLE.
  
A SOLILOQUY, PENCILLED WHILE ON AN EXCURSION TO HAMPTON-COURT, JUNE 14, 1804.
  
FLORA JEALOUS.

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TO Mr. and Mrs. MORREL, WITH FAIRINGS.

Accept the trifling gifts I bring—
—A fair itself's a trifling thing—
Yet smallest gifts, if kind and free,
No less than splendid presents, prove
Tokens of friendship and of love,
And gems of sweet SINCERITY!
Yet, could I choose what might express,
In mind, in manners, and in dress,
What we in life so seldom see,
From youth to age a pair like you;
Then, in my fairings should you view,
That gem of gems, SIMPLICITY!
My ribands should nor fly, nor fade,
But stand the sunshine and the shade,
Like leaves of some immortal tree;
Their colours too, a heavenly hue,
Should shine in Nature's lustre true,
To grace the gem, SINCERITY!
Yet not the Quaker's formal brown,
Nor coxcomb colour of the town,
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For these with you but ill agree;
Nor yet, affecting to be neat,
The studied, flaunting tints we meet,
Mocking the gem, SIMPLICITY!
O no! my Present should display
Something so just 'twixt grave and gay,
Yet good, that it should seem to be
A Present meet for such a pair,
And all who know you should declare,
'Twas the pure gem, SIMPLICITY!
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