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Poems (1806)

Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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VOL. I
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Elegiac Pieces.
  
TO A GENTLEMAN, WHO SHED TEARS IN COMPANY ON THE INTELLIGENCE THAT A FRIEND HAD DIED AT SEA OF A FRENZY FEVER.
  
LAURA's RINGLET.
  
IN MEMORY OF THE LATE Mr. RACK, OF BATH.
  
IN MEMORY OF THE LATE Mr. SLEECH, ARCHDEACON OF CORNWALL.
  
IN MEMORY OF THE LATE Mrs. DOBSON, OF EXETER.
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VOL. II.
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LYRIC PIECES.
  
ODE TO SLEEP,
  
ODE ON THE ISLE OF MANN,
  
ODE WRITTEN AFTER A THUNDER-STORM.
  
ODE WRITTEN IN A PICTURE-GALLERY.
  
PART OF THE EPICEDIUM OF REGNER LODBROG, TRANSLATED.
  
ODE ON THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF THE POETICAL MIND.
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HEROIC PIECES.
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CLAUDIAN's RAPE of PROSERPINE.
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BOOK THE FIRST.
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BOOK THE SECOND.
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ADDRESSES.
  
AN ADDRESS, INTRODUCTORY OF Mrs. SIDDONS,
  
AN ADDRESS, SPOKEN BY Mrs. SIDDONS,
  
A POETICAL ADDRESS TO A WIDOW LADY, OVER A DISH OF TEA IN HER HERMITAGE.
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SONNETS.
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SONNET I.
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SONNET II.
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SONNET III.
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SONNET IV.
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SONNET V.
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SONNET VI.
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SONNET VII. TO A YOUNG LADY, ON HER WEARING A VEIL,
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SONNET VIII. TO A COLLEGE FRIEND; ON HIS EXPRESSING HIS APPREHENSIONS, THAT THE AUTHOR HAD FORGOTTEN HIM.
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SONNET X. TO THE SAME. [A COLLEGE FRIEND]
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SONNET XI. TO THE SAME. [A COLLEGE FRIEND]
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SONGS.
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SONG I.
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SONG II.
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SONG III. THE BLUSH OF SIMPLICITY.
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SONG IV. THE FAINTING KISS.
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SONG V.
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SONG VI.
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SONG VIII. To Miss S*****.
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EPITAPHS.
  
ON THOMAS POLWHELE, Esq; LATE OF POLWHELE, BY THE REVEREND J. B. C. OF GLYNN.
  
ON TWO CHILDREN OF R. POLWHELE, BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE,
  
LINES TO THE MEMORY OF BRIGADIER GENERAL HOPE, GOVERNOR OF QUEBEC,

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TO A GENTLEMAN, WHO SHED TEARS IN COMPANY ON THE INTELLIGENCE THAT A FRIEND HAD DIED AT SEA OF A FRENZY FEVER.

1780.

O Blest! (though Apathy may boast the power
Of unmov'd features in the trying hour)
Blest be the tribute of those tears, that start
From Friendship's eye, the mirrors of the heart!
And ah! may he, whose vainly-social soul,
(Unheeding as it riots o'er the bowl)
With not a whisper from Reflection, hears
“How droop'd the spirit and the bloom of years;
“Sudden the victims of the oblivious grave—
“The shrivel'd corse—its winding-sheet a wave;”
May he, despis'd by all the feeling, live,
‘Nor taste one favour that the muse can give!’
For thee, who oft when Sorrow's form appears,
Dost melt with female weakness into tears,
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Though grinning Folly thy repose invade,
Pity shall veil thee in her softest shade;
Shall love thy sigh, when from his country torn,
Amid the murmurs of the deep forlorn,
Without one friend thy lost companion lies,
Without one friend to soothe him ere he dies!
Shall love thy tear, when not a star's dim light
Twinkles across the darkness of his night!
Pity shall tremble, as before thee glow
All the wild visions of severest woe;
As Frenzy, scowling on his short quick breath,
Hurries the fever of his brain to death;
As the lone spirit leaves its struggling clay,
And the last pangs of anguish faint away!
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