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Poems and Plays

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

(1737?-1812)

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YARICO TO INKLE.

THE SWEDISH CURATE,

THE FUNERAL OF ARABERT, MONK OF LA TRAPPE,

WRITTEN IN Mr. HUME's History.

IMITATED From the FRENCH.

FOR THE VASE AT BATH EASTON UPON DREAMS.

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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A SONNET to the Book

Ah go! beyond thy kindred copies blest,
Go meet thy happiness—be Jersey's guest:
She, skill'd to judge, thy humble themes receives,
Her graceful hand shall touch thy trembling leaves:
Her eyes, the boast and envy of the age,
Shall shed their pleasing lustre o'er thy page:
And while she reads, thy conscious form shall feel
The breath of spring from lips celestial steal.

These lines were sent to Lady Jersey, with a former edition of these Poems.