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A Day at Tivoli

With Other Verses. By John Kenyon

Kenyon, John (1784-1856)

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A DAY AT TIVOLI.

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OCCASIONAL VERSES.

INSCRIPTION FOR AN EAGLE'S FOOT,

[They choose not ill their lot who choose]

TO AN ÆOLIAN HARP.

LOVE'S AUCTION.

IN A PORTRAIT GALLERY.

THE GREEK WIFE.

FLOWERS FROM WATERLOO.

LINES SUGGESTED BY ODE XXIX. BOOK I. OF HORACE.

LINES SENT TO ELIA,

THE GODS OF GREECE.

BROOK OF SANGUINETTO,

ZOË: A PORTRAIT.

MONUMENT AT LUCERNE,

FROM ANACREON.

EXPERIMENTUM CRUCIS.

L'ENVOI, TO A POEM ON TOLERANCE.

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SACRED GIPSY CAROL.

EPILOGUE TO GIPSY CAROL.

MEMENTO VIVERE.

WINDS OF DOCTRINE.

PUNNING—AFTER COWLEY.

TO A FEMALE FRIEND,

PAST AND FUTURE.

RAISING THE DEAD.

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FROM ANACREON.
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This is a slight attempt to translate Anacreon more briefly than is usually done, and it claims no merit beyond its brevity.

ODE I.

Sing the old Atridæ!
Sing, my Lyre, of Cadmus.
But the Lyre, refusing,
Only sang of Love.

Strings and Lyre I changed—to
Chaunt of great Alcides.
Still the Lyre responded
Nought but notes of Love.

Farewell! then—to heroes;—
For what time remains me—
Since my Lyre will echo
Thoughts alone of Love.