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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.
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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EPIGRAM
On a country judge
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FROM THE FRENCH.
“Why, how now, rascals? guard the door!
“Keep silence! whence this vile uproar?
“The clamour almost breaks my head:
“Keep peace, I say!” the Justice cried;
“Ten causes I've already tried,
“Yet have not heard what has been said.”
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