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The Poems of St. George Tucker of Williamsburg, Virginia 1752-1827
Tucker, St. George (1752-1827)
POEMS AMONG FRIENDS
Written on Miss Cocke's Wedding Day.
The Belles of Williamsburg
A Dream on Bridecake
A Second Dream on Bridecake
Christmas Verses for the Printer's Devil, 1784
To Sleep
To Mr. Page on His Marriage
To Mr. Page On His Marriage to Miss Lowther
Hymn to the Creator
Riddles
1.
[1 A pearl in Latin speech shall be my first]
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[2 My first a mighty kingdom shall portray]
3.
3 Charade
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4 Charade
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5 To Mrs. Pope
Epigrams
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[1 The charge to battle should Bellona sound]
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[2 God's! To Elysium what a passport's here]
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[3 A subject to write a farce on]
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[4 Columbia's flag displays an emblem bright]
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[7 Quoth Jed to Tim, where did our John]
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[13 When lovely Sappho on the guitar plays]
To William Nelson Esq., of Charles-City
To Miss Fanny Currie
To Cynthia
Resignation
Burletta
Song
To Mrs. Page
The Sick Man's Return for a Kiss
A Fable
The Reflections of a Man in His Grand Climacteric
Lines, Supposed to Have Been Found Upon the Palace Green at Williamsburg On May Day, 1816
Occasioned by Some Remarks on the Word “Prancing,” in the Preceding by Three Scrupulous Ladies
Bacchanalian
Be Merry and Wise
Anacreontic
On Mrs. Lucy Nelson (the General's Widow) Attending the Communion Table at Church on a very Cold Day
Woman
Written on Christmas Day, 1820
SATIRES
The Alarm
Parody
A Proclamation
THE PROBATIONARY ODES
A Dedicatory Ode To a Would-be Great Man
1.
Ode I
2.
Ode II
3.
Ode III
4.
Ode IV
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Ode V
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Ode VI
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Ode VII
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Ode VIII
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Ode IX
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Ode X
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Ode XI
12.
Ode XII
A Supplementary Ode
A Trip to St. James's, 1794
For the Washington Federalist A New Federal Song
A New Song
On Reading a Letter From a Very Sprightly Lady, Disclaiming All Ideas of Love, and Matrimony, to a Particular Friend
The Virginia Patriot's Invitation to His Customers
PATRIOTIC POEMS
On General Washington
On General Arnold
The Progress of Cornwallis An Irregular Ode
Ode to Peace
On Hearing of the Attack Made by the British Captain Douglas, of the Navy, on the Chesapeake, Commanded by Commodore Barron, in June, 1807, Near Cape Henry
Ode For the new year—1809
Union March
Lines Written Soon After the Declaration of War Against Great Britain, in June, 1812, When Congress Passed an Act for Raising Troops.
Invocation Addressed to Every Friend of His Country; September 1814
TALES
Humps and Robin
The Tobacco Pipe
The Faithful Mastiff
The Author's Muse to the Reader
The Cynic
The Ass Turned Witness
The Impossibility, or, Old Nick Outwitted
The Discontented Student
The Judge With the Sore Rump
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The Poems of St. George Tucker of Williamsburg, Virginia 1752-1827
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Written in a County Courthouse
Here Justice sits and holds her scales:
But ah! her balance often fails.
The Poems of St. George Tucker of Williamsburg, Virginia 1752-1827