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Poems

by W. T. Moncrieff
Moncrieff, W. T. (1794-1857)
 
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DEDICATORY LINES TO M---A---M---.
 
SUPPLICATORY ODE,
 
INTRODUCTORY STANZAS.
 
MADRIGAL.
 
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF LOVE.
 
LINES
 
SONG.
 
ANECDOTE VERSIFIED.
 
BEAUTY'S IMMORTALITY.
 
QUESTIONS.
 
SERMENT D'AMOUR.
 
LOVE'S HATRED!
 
MADRIGAL.
 
STANZAS.
 
SONG.
 
EPIGRAM.
 
PASSION'S WISHES.
 
TO ------.
 
SONG. TO A YOUNG LADY SINGING.
 
MADRIGAL, TO MAIA.
 
RHAPSODY.
 
LINES, ON LEAVING AN OBSCURE RETIREMENT.
 
LINES TO ------.
 
SONG. SAPPHO TO HER MOTHER.
 
FANCIES.
 
BALLAD.
 
ROUND .
 
STANZAS.
 
MADRIGAL.
 
STANZAS.
 
SONNET.
 
LOVE'S BLINDNESS!
 
BEAUTY AND SCORN.
 
LINES.
 
BEAUTY'S IDEA!
 
STANZAS.
 
THEME AND VARIATION.
 
LINES TO SACCHARISSA, WITH A SUGAR VASE.
 
SONG.
 
ANACREONTIC.
 
STANZAS TO THE SHADE OF ------
 
THE DEAREST NAME!
 
MAYING.
 
SERENADE.
 
CONSOLATIONS OF SORROW.
 
CAPRICCIO.
 
LOVE'S CREED.
 
NOTTURNO.
 
LINES
 
LOVE'S FOLLIES.
 
A MODEST ODE TO FORTUNE.
 
HOPELESS LOVE.
 
SONNET.
 
THE JOY OF WEEPING.
 
MULTIPLICATION.
 
A LAMENT.
 
STANZAS TO MAIA, LOOKING AT A PICTURE.
 
REFLECTIONS.
 
EVENING.
 
THE FIRST OF MAY.
 
SONNET.
 
DAY AND NIGHT.
 
VALENTINE'S DAY.
 
LOVE'S MUTABILITY!
 
SINGLE CURSEDNESS!
 
NATURE'S LESSON.
 
CHERRIES.
 
ANACREONTIC.
 
TRANSLATION OF PETRARCH'S 28TH SONNET.
 
IS IT LOVE?
 
SIMPLICITY.
 
THE HOUR OF BLISS!
 
LINES.
 
ELEANOR GREY.
 
SONNET STANZAS.
 
LOVE'S EMANCIPATION.
 
LINES.
 
PITY'S PEARL.
 
ODE.
 
THE PILGRIM PRINCE.
 
STANZAS.
 
LOVE AND BEAUTY.
 
SONNET STANZAS.
 
LINES
 
DIRECTIONS TO THE PAGE.
 
CONCETTO.
 
WOMAN'S FIRST LOVE!
 
THE FOUR AGES OF WOMAN.
 
PLATONICAL SONNET.
 
LINES.
 
THE PLAIN GOLD RING.
 
ODE. On being present at a Young Ladies' Ball, in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
 
THE ETERNAL VOICE!
 
ECHO'S REPLY.
 
SONNET. WRITTEN AFTER PERUSING PETRARCH.
 
DESPONDENCY.
 
THE SPANIARD TO HIS COUNTRY.
 
To the Memory of MARY ANNE MONCRIEFF,
 
RESIGNATION.
 
VALEDICTORY SONNET.

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THE FOUR AGES OF WOMAN.

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THE IDEA FROM THE FRENCH.

In Infancy, a tender flower,
Cultivate her!
A floating bark, in Girlhood's hour,
Softly freight her!
When Woman grown, a fruitful vine,
Tend and press her!
A sacred charge, in Life's decline,
Shield and bless her!
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