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Poems and Plays

by Mr. Jerningham. In Four Volumes ... The Ninth Edition

(1737?-1812)

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1.

YARICO TO INKLE.

THE SWEDISH CURATE,

THE FUNERAL OF ARABERT, MONK OF LA TRAPPE,

WRITTEN IN Mr. HUME's History.

IMITATED From the FRENCH.

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FOR THE VASE AT BATH EASTON UPON DREAMS.

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FOR THE VASE AT BATH EASTON. DISSIPATION.

THE INDIAN CHIEF.

INSCRIPTION FOR A REED-HOUSE

THE VENETIAN MARRIAGE.

THE MEXICAN FRIENDS.

GUATIMOZINO's SPEECH, AT THE PLACE OF INTERMENT.

THE SPEECH OF THE HIGH-PRIEST, AT THE PILE.

THE ANCIENT ENGLISH WAKE;

INSCRIPTION INTENDED FOR AN OLD THATCHED CHURCH.

ON THE DEATH of Two Favourite Birds.

THE SOLDIER's FAREWELL, ON THE EVE OF A BATTLE.

TO THE LATE Earl of CHESTERFIELD.

ON THE DEATH OF Mr. GARRICK, 1779.

ON THE AUTHOR OF THE BALLAD CALLED THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD.

TO LADY CATHARINE MURRAY,

TO A LADY, WHO LAMENTED SHE COULD NOT SING.

A SONNET to the Book

FEBRUARY 4th, 1785.

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II.

THE SHAKSPEARE GALLERY.

[[ON THE RESIGNATION OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.]]

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ON Miss JERNINGHAM.

ON JAMES ROBSON,

ON Miss HAMILTON.

LINES ON THE MONUMENT OF Sir JOHN ELLIOT, M. D.

[They whom in life the bond of Friendship bound]

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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE NORTHERN POETRY:

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ABELARD TO ELOISA:

THE AFRICAN BOY.

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TINTERN ABBEY .

TO THE BARON NOLOKEN, THE SWEDISH AMBASSADOR,

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY HERVEY.

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TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE LADY JERNINGHAM.

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IV.

PEACE, IGNOMINY, AND DESTRUCTION:

EPILOGUE TO THE TATLERS,

On seeing some beautiful Lines WRITTEN BY THE Marchioness of Stafford,

LINES ON LORD CASTLE-ROSS

LINES Addressed to the Horse of the Right Honourable Lady Cawdor.

TO THE COUNT DE VERLAC,

ON THE PORTRAIT of Mrs. JERNINGHAM, BY HOPNER.

WRITTEN AT THE TOMB OF EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE.

To MISS B****Y, On her Return from Italy.

LINES Addressed to the Muse.

LINES ON “THE BAVIAD:”

LINES TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. DUFF.

ON THE DEATH OF Mr. PITT.

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THE INDIAN CHIEF.

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An English Officer in the late war being taken prisoner by the French Indians, became the slave of an old Indian Chief, who treated him with humanity. One day the Indian took the Officer up a hill, and addressed him as follows: See the Anecdotes of Literature, vol. 5th.

‘Twelve tedious moons hast thou my captive been,
‘I've taught thee how to build the swift canoe,
‘To chase the boar, prepare the beaver's skin,
‘To speed the shaft, and scalp the shrieking foe.

‘Say, does thy Father sleep within his grave?’—
‘Oh Heav'n forbid!’ the feeling Youth replied—
‘Then do his sorrows all my pity crave,’
The Chief return'd—‘'Twere better he had died.

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‘I was a Father once—oh valiant son!
‘Thy loss each low'ring morn and eve recal.
‘To shield my years, to Danger's path he run;
‘These eyes beheld the gallant warrior fall:

‘And Glory saw him fall with wounds o'erspread,
‘Bold on his bosom ev'ry wound he bore:
‘I rent the forelock from his murd'rer's head,
‘And left him breathless on the crimson shore.

‘Since that sad day my hours no pleasure share’—
The Indian Chief now paus'd, with sorrow fraught,
Wrapt in the awful silence of despair;
At length in words he cloath'd his mournful thought.

‘Behold that sun! how bright it shines to you!
‘Since that sad day to me it looks a cloud:
‘How gay yon blooming roses meet your view!
‘To me Grief drops o'er Nature's breast a shroud.

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‘Go, virtuous Stranger! to thy Father go,
‘Wipe from his furrow'd cheek Misfortune's tear:
‘Go, bid the sun to him his splendor shew,
‘And bid the flow'r in all her bloom appear.’