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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)
  
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SMALLER POEMS, AND ODES.
  
VERSES,
  
THE LOVE OF OUR COUNTRY.
  
ODE, WRITTEN AT THE FOOT OF SNOWDON,
  
ODE, ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND,
  
ODE, TO AN ANGRY MISTRESS.
  
ODE TO A COUNSEL IN SOUTH WALES,
  
ODE TO THE CROW.
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ODE TO THE LYRIC MUSE.
  
STROPHE I.
  
STROPHE II.
  
ANTISTROPHE I.
  
ANTISTROPHE II.
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ELEGIES, AND PLAINTIVE PIECES.
  
ELEGY, IMITATED FROM FLAMINIUS, Lib. iv. Page 18.
  
A HERMIT'S MEDITATION.
  
THE MONCKIS COMPLAYNTE TO ALMA MATER,
  
TO ELIZA.
  
ANSWER To the foregoing Address.
  
MAISTER J. HARTELIBE HIS ELEGIE On the Dethe of that most perfect Paragon of Beauty Mrs. S. Monimie.
  
STANZAS WRITTEN IN AN HERMITAGE.
  
THE LOVER
  
ON THE DEATH OF Dr. GREGORY, Professor of Physic at Edinburgh.
  
UNFINISHED ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF Dr. WILLIAM HAYES, Late Professor of Music in the University of Oxford.
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NUGÆ POETICÆ, &c.
  
ANTHOLOGIA.
  
TRANSLATION.
  
ANACREONTIC, FROM JULIANUS ÆGYPTIUS.
  
TRANSLATION.
  
EX ANTHOL.
  
CARPHYLIDÆ. Ex Anthob. III. i. 6. Brunck. II. 401.
  
ANACREON, ODE I.
  
SONG, BY GEORGE WITHER.
  
LOOSE TRANSLATION,
  
EX ANTHOL.
  
FROM MILTON's EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS.
  
ANACREONTIC.
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SONNETS.
 I. 
SONNET I. THE WORLD.
 II. 
SONNET II. FROM THE ITALIAN.
 III. 
SONNET III. TO Mr. WARTON,
 IV. 
SONNET IV. ON THE AUTHOR's BIRTH-DAY.
 V. 
SONNET V. TO LAURA.
 VI. 
SONNET VI. THE RETURN OF LAURA.
 VII. 
SONNET VII. TO VALCLUSA.
 VIII. 
SONNET VIII. IMITATION FROM FAUSTINA MARATTI.
 IX. 
SONNET IX. ON DOVER CLIFFS.
 X. 
SONNET X. TO AN OAK Blown down by the Wind.
 XI. 
SONNET XI. MORNING.
 XII. 
SONNET XII. TO BOCCACCIO.
 XIII. 
SONNET XIII. INSANIENTIS DUM SAPIENTIÆ.
 XIV. 
SONNET XIV. TO AN INFANT.
 XV. 
SONNET XV. RETIREMENT.
 XVI. 
SONNET XVI. ON A WET SUMMER.
 XVII. 
SONNET XVII. On a Revolution in the Opinions and Conduct of a Friend, whose Notions were supposed to be a little too free; and who was also supposed to have an Amour with a Lady who sung elegantly.
 XVIII. 
SONNET XVIII. ON THE DEATH OF THOMAS WARTON.
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INSCRIPTIONS AND EPITAPHS.
  
ON THE SAME.
  
Inscribed beneath the Picture of an ASS.
  
EPITAPH ON AN INFIRM OLD LADY, Who died aged 96.
  
INSCRIPTION IN AN ARBOUR.
  
EPITAPH On a late LIBERAL and LEARNED LIMB OF THE LAW.
  
AN INSCRIPTION ON AN OBELISK AT LONGFORD IN WILTS, The Seat of the Earl of Radnor,
  
EPITAPH ON AN OLD MAID IN A COUNTRY VILLAGE.
  
ON THE SAME.
  
WRITTEN IN A WINDOW, Under some scandalous Reflections on several Ladies.
  
INSCRIPTION ON A PANE OF GLASS.
  
EPITAPH OF AN INJURED LOVER.
  
INSCRIPTIO URNÆ.
  
EPITAPH ON A YOUTH.
  
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION.
  
WRITTEN ON A PANE OF GLASS.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR THE TOMB OF Mrs. ELIZABETH PIDGEON, Who died suddenly.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR THE PEDESTAL OF A STATUE OF PRINCE FIELD-MARSHAL SOUWAROFF RIMNISKI ITALISKI.
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SONGS AND BALLADS.
  
SONG TO A LADY
  
SONG, ON A KISS.
  
SONG. THE REFLECTION.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG. MUTUAL LOVE.
  
SONG.
  
SONG, TO A LADY,
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
To HOPE.
  
THE PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED.
  
BACCHANALIAN SONG.
  
A NEW BALLAD OF DEATH AND THE LADY.
  
WELL-A-DAY JACK! OR, THE JACK THAT JACK SPLIT.
  
CRICKET-SONG.
  
A BALLAD OF SIMILIES.
  
THE TRIOPTHALMIST, OR THREE-EYED CONNOISSEUR.
  
THE CAPE HUNT,
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MOCK-HEROICAL AND BURLESQUE PIECES, PARODIES, EPIGRAMS, &c.
  
THE CONQUEST OF QUEBEC,
  
ON THE NEW GIBBET ON HOUNSLOW HEATH.
  
THE LAUREATE's ODE, 1771.
  
THE PLAGIARISM OF THE POET-LAUREATE DETECTED;
  
OLD WYSCHARD.
  
ODE, In the Manner of Samuel J*ns*n.
  
RONDEAU.
  
ANOTHER ODE TO STELLA.
  
EPIGRAM,
  
EPIGRAM,
  
ODE FOR WILLIAM PRESTON,
  
EPIGRAM,
  
BY A YOUNG LADY,
  
ELEGY ON A FAVOURITE BANTUM,
  
PARODY,
  
ROBIN-A-BOBIN,
  
THE PEPPER-BOX.
  
A NEW-YEAR'S ODE, 1777.
  
TIZZY;
  
ON THE FUNERAL OF MR. ELWES
  
FRIENDLY COUNSEL.
  
ON Mrs. W---n,
  
IMPROMPTU,
  
SAMPLE
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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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TO A BOY, ROBBING A BIRD'S-NEST.

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

Stay, wanton Boy, thy savage arm,
Nor drag, unfeeling, from its nest
The chirping Young, and Egg yet warm,
Late by its feather'd Mother press'd.
How must that feather'd Mother grieve,
Returning from the clover field,
To view the blood wet every leaf,
Her young with tyrant fury kill'd!
Think that e'en now thy Mother's eye
O'er hill and dale doth studious run,
If haply she from far may spy
The coming of her darling son.
Then, if accustom'd to behold
Thy brow with smiles and beauty crown'd,
She sees Thee carried pale and cold,
Stabb'd thro' with many a ruffian wound,
Anguish her heart would inly wear,
Fear freeze, or boiling passion storm,
Or frantic Madness wildly tear;—
Think, Boy, of this, and stay thine arm!
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