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Lewesdon Hill, with other poems

By the Rev. William Crowe ... a corrected and much enlarged edition, with notes

Crowe, William (1745-1829)

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INSCRIBED BENEATH THE PICTURE OF AN ASS.

ODE TO THE LYRIC MUSE.

ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK.

ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF DR. W. HAYES, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

THE WORLD .

THE BRITISH THEATRE.

ON TWO PUBLICATIONS, ENTITLED EDITIONS OF TWO OF OUR POETS.

TO A YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN,

SONNET TO PETRARCH.

TRANSLATION OF A GREEK INSCRIPTION UPON A FOUNTAIN .

FROM LUCRETIUS.

FROM LUCRETIUS.

FROM LUCRETIUS.

MIDNIGHT DEVOTION.

FROM PURCHASE'S PILGRIMAGE,

THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE.

ON TWO ENGLISH POETS,

ON THE FUNERAL OF ------,

AN EXPOSTULATORY SUPPLICATION TO DEATH,

ON THE DECEASE OF HORNE TOOKE.

ON FIELD-MARSHAL SUWOROW.

ON F. W. THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S INEFFECTUAL ATTEMPT ON WARSAW.

POLITICAL ADVICE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH CONVENTION.

WRITTEN WHEN BUONAPARTE WAS ALTERING THE GOVERNMENTS OF GERMANY.

SUGGESTED BY READING DRYDEN'S BRITANNIA REDIVIVA,

ON THE INCREASE OF HUMAN LIFE.

ODE TO THE KING OF FRANCE. 1823.

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THE WORLD .

INTENDED AS AN APOLOGY FOR NOT WRITING.

BY A LADY.

Wide Habitation of the Sons of Men,
Wherein the seeds of vice and virtue lie
Mix'd, like the undigested Elements
Ere Chaos lost his kingdom; where blind Chance
With Passion holds divided anarchy;
O! who can rightly scan thee, or describe?

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Subject ill suited to a Virgin's Muse,
That cannot praise, and is to blame untaught:
Wherefore from this unprofitable theme
She turns, leaving unsung its argument;
Save that with careless hand her lute she strikes
Lightly, nor hoping that the myrtle wreath
Shall crown her unpremeditated lay.

This was among the subjects for a Prize Poem, given out by Sir John and Lady Miller at Bath Easton.