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Miscellanies (1785)

(1749-1814)

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SYMPATHY, A POEM.

TO THE AUTHOR OF SYMPATHY,

TO THE AUTHOR OF SYMPATHY

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I.

II.

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THE TEARS OF GENIUS.

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THE TEARS OF GENIUS,

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THE ART OF RISING ON THE STAGE.

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II.

III.

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POEMS FROM THE ANNUAL REGISTER.

THE PARTRIDGES:

EXTRACTED FROM VERSES,

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POETICAL PIECES FROM LIBERAL OPINIONS.

ELEGY OF A NIGHTINGALE,

EPITAPH ON A LAP-DOG.

SOLILOQUIES OF A HIGHWAYMAN.

ODE TO A SCHOOL-FELLOW.

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES,

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EPITAPH ON ------

TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN DRUMMOND, A BRAVE YOUNG OFFICER.

SILVANA, THE HIGHLAND SHEPHERDESS.

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BALLAD POEMS FROM EMMA CORBET, AND SONGS.

VERSES WRITTEN IN THE MOMENTS OF WAITING AN INTERVIEW.

ADDRESS TO A LOCKET.

WITH A PRESENT OF SOME PENS SENT TO EMMA.

PLEASING AND TEASING.

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PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES.

PROLOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF CATO.

PROLOGUE, WRITTEN FOR MRS. HUNTER, AT BIRMINGHAM.

AN OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE, WRITTEN FOR MRS. SIDDONS AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

EPILOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF THE FATAL INTERVIEW.

PROLOGUE FOR THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MRS. SIMPSON.

PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN OF CHINA.

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STANZAS, FROM MISS SEWARD'S MONODY ON THE DEATH OF LADY MILLAR.

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THE SHADOWS OF SHAKESPEARE:

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VII.

VIII.

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XVI.

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THE SYSTEM OF PYTHAGORAS.

THE FAMILY OF TIME:

DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS.

ODE TO THE SUN.

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MISCELLANEOUS VERSES.

THE ROSE-TREE, THE GARDENER, AND THE SHRUBS.

UPON THE CONNEXION OF THE AUTHOR

TO DOCTOR LETTSOM,

TO Mrs. SIDDONS's CHILDREN,

THE OPENING OF THE NINTH BOOK OF THE HENRIADE TRANSLATED .

THE CASKET. TO A FRIEND UNDER PAIN FROM A FEW POINTED OBSERVATIONS.

WRITTEN EXTEMPORE

TO MISS SAWBRIDGE.

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MRS. SHERIDAN ON HER BROTHER'S LYRE.

HER BROTHER's LYRE

LINES,

TO MISS C. BRACKENBURY, OF COPT-FOLD-HALL, IN ESSEX.

A SILFPHID's GREETING,

THE TWO LEECHES

THE PASSION FLOWER

ACREONTIC BURLESQUE.

A LOVER'S QUARREL.

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LINES,

BY A LADY, ON SEEING SOME WHITE HAIRS ON HER LOVER'S HEAD.

Thou to whose pow'r reluctantly we bend,
Foe to life's fairy dreams relentless time,
Alike the dread of lover and of friend;
Why stamp thy seal on manhood's rosy prime,
Already twining 'midst my Thyrsis' hair,
The snowy wreaths of age, the monuments of care.

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Thro' all her forms tho' nature owns thy sway,
That boasted sway thou'lt here exert in vain
To the last beam of life's declining day;
Thyrsis shall view unmov'd thy potent reign,
Secure to please while goodness knows to charm,
Fancy and taste delight, and sense and truth inform.

Tyrant, when from that lip of crimson glow,
Swept by thy chilling wing the rose shall fly;
When thy rude scythe indents his polish'd brow,
And quench'd is all the lustre of his eye:
When ruthless age disperses ev'ry grace,
Each smile that beams from that enchanting face.

Then thro' her stores shall active mem'ry rove,
Teaching her various charms to bloom anew,
And still the raptur'd eye of hopeless love
Shall bend on Thyrsis its delighted view;
Still shall he triumph with resistless pow'r,
Still rule the conquer'd heart to life's remotest hour.