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Poetical works of the late F. Sayers

to which have been prefixed the connected disquisitions on the rise and progress of English poetry, and on English metres, and also some biographic particulars of the author, supplied by W. Taylor

Sayers, F. (1763-1817)

[epigraph]

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

Pandora, a Monodrama.

ARIADNE.

ODE TO MORNING.

ODE TO NIGHT.

EPIGRAM ON A SWALLOW BEARING A GRASSHOPPER TO HER YOUNG.

ADDRESS TO A GOTHIC CHAIR,

ON TROWSE ORGAN.

ON THE SAME.

TRANSLATION OF THE Cyclops of Euripides.

Specimen of Guy of Warwick.

Jack the Giant-killer.

A FRAGMENT

EPIGRAM.

IN POETAM QUENDAM AMATORIUM

THE DESPAIRING LOVER.

LINES ADDRESSED TO MISS D.

LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. RACHEL HUNTER,

LINES ON THORPE GROVE.

EPITAPH

ON THE MANAGERS OF THE GATE-HOUSE CONCERT IN NORWICH,

LINES TO MISS S. ------

LINES ADDRESSED TO HUDSON GURNEY, Esq.

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EPIGRAM.

[Graces must hold, though beauty first may gain]

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(From the Greek.)

Graces must hold, though beauty first may gain;
Without the hook, the bait but floats in vain.