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The Wiccamical Chaplet

a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford
Huddesford, George (1749-1809)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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SMALLER POEMS, AND ODES.
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ELEGIES, AND PLAINTIVE PIECES.
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NUGÆ POETICÆ, &c.
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SONNETS.
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INSCRIPTIONS AND EPITAPHS.
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SONGS AND BALLADS.
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MOCK-HEROICAL AND BURLESQUE PIECES, PARODIES, EPIGRAMS, &c.
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES, FRAGMENTS, &c.
  
THE BRITISH THEATRE.
  
FRAGMENT.
  
GRATULATORY LINES,
  
TO A LADY,
  
IMPROMPTU.
  
FRAGMENT. ON THE DEATH OF GRAY.
  
ON TWO PUBLICATIONS, INTITLED EDITIONS OF TWO OF OUR POETS.
  
FRAGMENT. THE TEARS OF THE EAGLE,
  
FELICITATION
  
TO A LADY
  
THE SCUTTLE FISH.
  
ANSWER TO AN OLD LADY OF OXFORD,
  
ON A THREAT TO DESTROY THE TREE AT WINCHESTER,
  
FRAGMENT.
  
TO A BOY, ROBBING A BIRD'S-NEST.
  
ON A LADY AND HER SISTER,
  
TO THE WRITER OF THE “Familiar Epistle to the Author of the History of English Poetry:”
  
FRAGMENT,
  
THE PYTHAGOREAN.
  
TO A LADY,
  
TO THE SAME,
  
THE CONFESSION.
  
FRAGMENT,
  
A DRAMATIC VIEW OF THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN QUESTION 1776.
  
AN EARLY VIEW OF THE SAME QUESTION:
  
TO THE LADIES,
  
FRAGMENT.
  
LINES
  
ON A CHAPEL Built at Windsor Lodge by William Duke of Cumberland,
  
THE COMPLAINT OF THE ROSE.
  
AN ABSOLUTE ACROSTIC,
  
FRAGMENT.
  
ON THE Amphibious N. ELLIOT, of Oxford, Shoemaker and Poet.
  
LINES Inscribed on a Leaf of Lowth's Grammar,
  
IMITATION
  
THE SPLEEN.

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GRATULATORY LINES,

Written and left upon the Road for a College Friend, (Then about Thirty Years of Age), Descriptive of a Morning in April on which he was married.

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

The morning lowr'd—nor, ere broad day,
Sung the dull lark his matin lay:
The storm o'erpast, I ride along:—
She greets me with her rapturous song.
Health and fair Fortune aye betide
The Bridegroom and the gentle Bride!
What tho', of Heav'n's prime Blessing lorn,
Monkish, ungenial rise the morn,
Sullen in clouds! yet ere mid-day
Timely fair Nature's Choir shall sing:
And timely heard, around, above,
The Voice of Harmony and Love
Brighten the unshed blooms of Spring,
And gild the Evening Ray.
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