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Poems on Various Subjects

By Henry James Pye ... In Two Volumes. Ornamented with Frontispieces
Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)

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VOL. I.
  
TO WILLIAM MITFORD, Esq.
  
ODE ON THE DIVINE OMNIPRESENCE. A COLLEGE EXERCISE.
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ODE ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.
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ODE TO LIBERTY.
  
ODE TO BEAUTY.
  
ODE TO HARMONY.
  
Sent to Dr. HAYES, with the ODE to HARMONY.
  
VERSES addressed to a LADY.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
Written on a LADY's FAN.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
THE SNOW-DROP.
  
Written in the Year 1779, when the Combined Fleets were off Plymouth.
  
EPITAPH ON CHARLES D'AUSSEY, ESQUIRE,
  
Sent to Mr. HAYLEY, on reading his EPISTLES on EPIC POETRY.
  
Mr. HAYLEY's ANSWER.
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ELEGIES.
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ELEGY I.
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ELEGY II.
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ELEGY III.
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ELEGY IV.
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ELEGY V.
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ELEGY VI.
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ELEGY VII.
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ELEGY VIII.
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ELEGY IX.
  
THE MYRTLE AND BRAMBLE.
  
MADNESS,
  
THE TRIUMPH OF FASHION. A VISION.
  
SHOOTING.
  
AEROPHORION .
  
ON THE WRECK OF THE HALSEWELL.
  
THE PARSONAGE IMPROVED.
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SIX OLYMPIC ODES OF PINDAR.
  
THE FOURTH OLYMPIC ODE. To Psaumis of Camarina, on his Victory in the Chariot Race.
  
THE SIXTH OLYMPIC ODE. To Agesias of Syracuse, on his Victory gained by the Apené, or Chariot drawn by Mules.
  
THE EIGHTH OLYMPIC ODE. To Alcimedon, on his Olympic Victory; Timosthenes, on his Nemean Victory; and Melesias, their Preceptor.
  
THE NINTH OLYMPIC ODE. To Epharmostus of Opus, on his Olympic and Pythian Victories.
  
THE TENTH OLYMPIC ODE. To Agesidamus, son of Archestratus, an Epizephyrian Locrian, on his Victory obtained by the Cæstus.
  
THE THIRTEENTH OLYMPIC ODE. To Xenophon of Corinth, on his Victory in the Stadic Course, and Pentathlon, at Olympia.
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TWO FRAGMENTS OF PINDAR's THRENI,
  
ON THE SITUATION OF THE BLEST.
  
ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.
  
A GREEK SCOLION, OR SONG,
  
A FRAGMENT OF SIMONIDES.
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VOL. II.
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FARINGDON HILL.
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BOOK I.
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BOOK II.
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THE PROGRESS OF REFINEMENT.
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PART I.
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PART II.
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PART III.
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Sent with the Second Edition of the Poem to his Majesty the King of PRUSSIA.
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THE ART OF WAR.
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BOOK I.
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BOOK II.
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BOOK III.
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BOOK IV.
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BOOK V.
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BOOK VI.

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II.

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‘Far hence,’ he cried, ‘the tumult's roar
‘To distant realms shall fly:
‘Mirth revels now on Albion's shore
‘With blythe festivity.
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‘Ye Muses twine each fragant flower
‘To crown the day, to crown the hour,
‘Which gave to George a blooming heir;
‘Ye Guardians of this favor'd isle
‘On this your future monarch smile,
‘Ye Nymphs your wreaths prepare.

2.

‘Come happy child! delight the land
‘Where time shall fix thy throne:
‘O come, and take from Freedom's hand
‘A sceptre all her own:
‘And when the sacred lore of truth
‘Display'd, shall form thy ripening youth,
‘May every joyful Briton find
‘The soul of George's godlike race,
‘With lovely Charlotte's softer grace,
‘Attemper'd, in thy mind.
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3.

‘For thee on Afric's sultry coast
‘The British ensign proudly waves;
‘For thee by distant tempests tost
‘Our navies awe the Gallic pride
‘On every shore, whose hostile side
‘The boundless Ocean laves.—
‘With nobler skill, and fiercer fire,
‘Strike the rapture-breathing lyre.—
‘Hark!—from Cambria's cloud-top'd mountains
‘Music winds her stream along,
‘As they flow the crystal fountains
‘Listen to the jocund song,
‘Lo radiant forms and glorious shades appear,
‘Fair as the morn in saffron mantle dight;
‘But strains divine ill suit the human ear,
‘And fleeting visions mock the mortal sight.’—
He said, and rushing from my wondering eyes,
On volley'd lightening borne, he sought his native skies.
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