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Poems and Plays

by Mr. Jerningham. In Four Volumes ... The Ninth Edition
(1737?-1812)

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VOL. I
  
[dedication]
  
THE MAGDALENS;
  
YARICO TO INKLE.
  
The NUN;
  
THE NUNNERY.
  
THE DESERTER.
  
IL LATTE.
  
MATILDA.
  
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.
  
SENSIBILITY.
  
THE SOLDIER's FAREWELL, ON THE EVE OF A BATTLE.
  
ALBINA.
  
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.
  
HONORIA:
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VOL. II
  
THE SHAKSPEARE GALLERY.
  
[[ON THE RESIGNATION OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.]]
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EPITAPHS.
  
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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PART I.
  
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PART II.
  
ABELARD TO ELOISA:
  
THE AFRICAN BOY.
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ENTHUSIASM:
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PART I.
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PART II.
  
AN APOLOGUE.
  
THE ROOKERY.
  
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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VOL. 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
  
TO Mrs. M***,
  
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.
  
THE ANSWER.
  
LINES ON “THE BAVIAD:”
  
LINES TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. DUFF.
  
ON THE DEATH OF Mr. PITT.

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LINES TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. DUFF.

To this sad grave no common grief invites,
No stale display of sanctimonious rites;
Domestic virtues here, a drooping band,
Around the hallow'd spot despairing stand:
And here their lov'd departed mistress mourn,
From the fond youth of her affection torn:
Torn from gay life's short scene, in morning's bloom,
To feed the jaws of the relentless tomb.
Ah! when she fell beneath Death's tyrant pow'r,
The polish'd world then lost its beauteous flow'r:
In whose blest frame were happily combin'd,
The feeling bosom, and th' illumin'd mind:
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A spirit finely touch'd by Nature's hand,
Prompt to perform when Virtue gave command;
Prompt on Affliction's wound to pour relief,
And bind the bleeding artery of Grief.
Friendship exclaim'd, while bursting tears ran o'er,
‘My prime, my stedfast favourite, is no more.’
Affection, to the bosom still more dear,
Shrunk at th' event, and dropt her warmest tear;
Religion rais'd her sacred hand on high!
And said—‘see Innocence ascend the sky!’
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