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Poetics

Or, a series of poems, and disquisitions on poetry. By George Dyer
Dyer, George (1755-1841)

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VOL. I.
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ODES.
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BOOK THE FIRST.
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ODE I. VISIONS.
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ODE III. ON REVISITING THE SCENES OF EARLIER LIFE.
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ODE IV. ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING.
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ODE V. INDEPENDENCE.
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ODE VI. TO JOHN HAMMOND, A. M. OF FENSTANTON, HUNTINGDONSHIRE.
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ODE VII. THE RECONCILIATION.
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ODE VIII. INVOCATION TO MAY.
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BOOK THE SECOND.
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ODE I. THE RACE OF HEROES.
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ODE II. PEACE AND FREEDOM.
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ODE III. TO MRS. OPIE, WHEN MISS ALDERSON,
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ODE IV. TO AN INFANT,
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ODE VI. ON CONTEMPLATING THE WEALTH AND AGGRANDIZEMENT FLOWING FROM CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS IN INDIA.
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ODE X. ON THE EVENING.
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ODE XI. CUPID'S ADDRESS;
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ODE XII. ON SEEING A LADY'S PORTRAIT.
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ODE XIII. LOVE OF PLEASURE.
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ODE XIV. THE MUSIC OF THE GROVES.
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ODE XV. GAIA, OR MY OWN HONEST LANDLADY IN A COUNTRY VILLAGE.
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ODE XVI. THE PHILOSOPHY OF EVIL.
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ODE XVII. ADDRESS TO THE CAM.
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ODE XVIII. TO A LADY, WHO HAD RALLIED THE AUTHOR IN THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE, FOR HIS REJECTION OF TITLES.
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ODE XXI. TO NARCISSA.
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ODE XXII. TO MELANCHOLY.
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ODE XXIII. MEDITATED IN THE CLOISTERS OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
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BOOK THE THIRD.
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ODE II. ON THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN, AFTER AN EXCURSION THROUGH HERTFORDSHIRE AND ESSEX.
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ODE III. THE RANSOM.
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ODE IV. ON SCIENCE.
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ODE VI. TO AN ENTHUSIAST.
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ODE VIII. ON PEACE.
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ODE IX. ON CONSIDERING THE UNSETTLED STATE OF EUROPE, AND THE OPPOSITION WHICH HAD BEEN MADE TO ATTEMPTS FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE-TRADE.
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ODE XII. WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF JOHN HOWARD, AT HIS VILLA AT CARDINGTON, IN BEDFORDSHIRE.
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ODE XIII. TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
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ODE XV. TO A MINIATURE PAINTER,
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ODE XXI. AN EPITAPH FOR A HUMAN BEING.
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ODE XXII. TO A HUMBLE FRIEND.
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BOOK THE FOURTH.
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ODE II. AN ENGLISH SAPPHIC, IN PRAISE OF SNUFF AND TOBACCO.
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ODE III. TO MUSIC.
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ODE IV. ON WINE.
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ODE V. AFTER VISITING DRYBURGH ABBEY, IN BERWICKSHIRE.
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ODE VI. THE CHARM OF MUSIC.
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ODE VII. HYMN TO CHARITY.
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ODE VIII. THE SAILOR.
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ODE IX. THE TRIUMPH OF POETRY.
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ODE X. A SONG.
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ODE XI. ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS, AND THE HAVOC OF WAR.
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ODE XII. HYMN TO HEALTH.
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ODE XIII.
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ODE XIV.

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ODE XII. ON SEEING A LADY'S PORTRAIT.

Lady, that portrait does but shew,
What you were thirty years ago,
Or a few years before;
The rose and lily of the face;
The sparkling eye; the youthful grace;
But it can shew no more.
But you have more; the heart refin'd;
A sprightly wit; a thinking mind;
This from your face appears.
And your old friends, as well as new,
Declare, that they perceive in you,
The growth of thirty years.
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Time, then, whom oft a thief we name,
You, lady, should at least proclaim
A thief of gen'rous mould:
For tho' he has from day to day,
Been stealing a few flowers away,
He has left you all your gold.
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