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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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III.

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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II.

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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TO LADY CATHARINE MURRAY,

DURING HER RECOVERY FROM AN ILLNESS, OCCASIONED BY HER CLOATHS CATCHING FIRE, 1781.

With a green and yellow
Melancholy she sat, like Patience on
A monument, smiling at grief.
Shakispear.

Had our great tragic Bard (whose master-hand
The patient Viola's sweet portrait plann'd)
Beheld fair Catharine to pain consign'd,
Yet tow'ring o'er her fate with strength of mind,
In other colours he had then display'd
The pleasing image of his patient Maid!
Not with dim tints of yellow and of green,
Would he have sicklied o'er the sufferer's mien:

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But in a shading cap that veils the face,
Half-stealing from the sight each soften'd grace,
He would have pictur'd to the stedfast view
A cheek a little pal'd with languor's hue;
An eye that, beaming with the rays of sense,
Speaks to the soul an artless eloquence,
And seems a look of gratitude to throw
On those whose feelings share the sufferer's woe:
And last her lips (whose blushes well display
The glowing colour of the ruby's ray)
Where Patience dwells, refusing to complain,
With Resignation that can smile at pain!

This accomplished young lady was married, in 1782, to the Honourable Edward Bouverie, and died in 1783.