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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 XIII. TO THE NIGHTINGALE.

Sweet songster! that unseen, unknown,
Dost strain thy little, heaving breast;
Why dost thou warble still alone,
Wakeful, while other songsters rest?
Oft have I linger'd in the grove,
Charm'd with thy soothing, melting song:
It told—or seem'd to tell—of love—
Nor was the night, tho' darksome, long.
Yet oh! sweet bird, why shun the light?
Why warble still the lonesome lay?
Those notes, which smooth the brow of night,
Might wake the genial smile of day.
But tho' thou shunn'st my wistful sight,
So melting-soft thou wont to sing,
I deem thee not a bird of night,
But hail thee Poet of the Spring.
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