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Rhapsodies

By W. H. Ireland
Ireland, W. H. (1777-1835)

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TO THE READER.
 
DEDICATED, By Permission, TO LADY HUNLOKE, OF WINGERWORTH, DERBYSHIRE.
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RHAPSODIES.
 
ANACREONTIC.
 
EPIGRAM On a gentleman in fear of bailiffs.
 
LINES Under the statue of Love, by Voltaire.
 
POOR POLLY, THE MAD GIRL.
 
A BALLAD.
 
LINES.
 
SOLILOQUY OF A GARRETEER.
 
HYMN TO THE DEITY.
 
LOVE AND PRUDENCE.
 
CATCH,
 
PARODY.
 
EPIGRAM On a known fact.
 
THE LITTLE RED WOMAN,
 
SONG—POOR JANE.
 
EXTEMPORE,
 
LINES By a Poet, to the object of his idolatry.
 
THE BASTARD.
 
THE BASTARD's COMPLAINT.
 
REPLY TO THE BASTARD's COMPLAINT.
 
TO A FRIEND,
 
ODE TO CHARITY.
 
LINES To the departed Spirit of a Parent.
 
THE WHITE LADY ;
 
FRAGMENT.
 
EPIGRAM On a set of bell ringers.
 
ON THE HEART,
 
SEA SONG.
 
LINES On hearing a person maintain that Man might have been formed less vicious.
 
EPITAPH, Written at the request of a friend, on his much-lamented wife.
 
LINES On a happy union.
 
THE ABBEY PORCH, AND MELANCHOLY MAN'S CONTEMPLATION.
 
BALLAD.
 
EPIGRAM On a country judge.
 
BACCHANALIAN:
 
THE MISTRESS's QUESTION.
 
THE LOVER's REPLY.
 
ON THE DEATH OF A FEMALE FRIEND,
 
LITTLE JOHN;
 
ON THE OAK IN PENSHURST PARK,
 
WILLY, THE FORSAKEN SWAIN.
 
ANACREONTIC.
 
THE QUESTION RESOLVED.
 
LINES From Age to Youth.
 
PARODY.
 
CUPID AND THE LOVE-SICK MAID.
 
EMPLOYMENT FOR A MISTRESS AND A WIFE.
 
FROM THE FRENCH.
 
CRAZY TOM, THE BEDLAMITE.
 
TO A MISTRESS.
 
FRAGMENT.
 
LINES Addressed to a young couple on the celebration of their nuptials.
 
LITTLE JANE;
 
TO AN ABSENT MISTRESS.
 
PARODY.
 
A LOVER's KISS.
 
ADVICE OF FRIENDSHIP.
 
THE LOVER's REPLY.
 
PARODY.
 
PARODY, In answer to the former.
 
LINES On following a lady with a beautiful turned ancle.
 
LINES On hearing a young Lady sing the celebrated mad song composed by Purcell.
 
BALLAD IMITATED.
 
PARODY.
 
LINES To a Mistress, who fled every worldly consideration for him she loved.
 
FROM THE FRENCH OF VOLTAIRE.
 
ANSWER, In 1802
 
A BALLAD, OF EDWARD AND ELGIVA, The Nun of St. Agatha.
 
LINES Addressed to the admirers of aerial excursions;

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CATCH,

On a set of execrable Fidlers, to the tune of “Water parted from the Sea.”

May ye never play in tune
Either morning, night, or noon;
May ye ne'er, at noon or night,
Know the left hand from the right!
May your strings be ever breaking;
Pegs I charge ye ne'er unscrew;
May your heads be always aching!
Mine, by Heav'n! you've split in two.
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