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The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Warton

... Fifth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. To which are now added Inscriptionum Romanarum Delectus, and An Inaugural Speech As Camden Professor of History, never before published. Together with Memoirs of his Life and Writings; and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Richard Mant
Warton, Thomas (1728-1790)

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SONNETS.
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SONNET I. WRITTEN AT WINSLADE IN HAMPSHIRE.
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SONNET II. ON BATHING.
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SONNET III. WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF DUGDALE'S MONASTICON.
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SONNET IV. WRITTEN AT STONEHENGE.
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SONNET V. WRITTEN AFTER SEEING WILTON-HOUSE.
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SONNET VI. TO Mr. GRAY.
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SONNET VII.
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SONNET VIII. ON KING ARTHUR's ROUND TABLE, AT WINCHESTER.
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SONNET IX. TO THE RIVER LODON.
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HUMOROUS PIECES.

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SONNET II. ON BATHING.

(This and the following Sonnets were published in 1777.)
When late the trees were stript by winter pale,
Young Health, a dryad-maid in vesture green,
Or like the forest's silver-quiver'd queen,
On airy uplands met the piercing gale;
And, ere its earliest echo shook the vale,
Watching the hunter's joyous horn was seen.
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But since, gay-thron'd in fiery chariot sheen,
Summer has smote each daisy-dappled dale;
She to the cave retires, high-arch'd beneath
The fount that laves proud Isis' towery brim:
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And now, all glad the temperate air to breathe,
While cooling drops distil from arches dim,
Binding her dewy locks with sedgy wreath,
She sits amid the quire of Naiads trim.
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