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The Poetical Works of Horace Smith

Now First Collected. In Two Volumes

Smith, Horace (1779-1849)

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I.

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

PREFATORY STANZAS.

HYMN TO THE FLOWERS.

ADDRESS TO A MUMMY.

ADDRESS TO THE ORANGE-TREE AT VERSAILLES,

SICILIAN ARETHUSA.

THE SHRIEK OF PROMETHEUS.

THE BIRTH OF THE INVISIBLE.

THE MURDERER'S CONFESSION.

THE BARD'S SONG TO HIS DAUGHTER.

THE FLOWER THAT FEELS NOT SPRING.

MORAL COSMETICS.

THE OLD MAN'S PÆAN.

ANSWER TO “AN OLD MAN'S PÆAN.”

THE MOTHER'S MISTAKE.

THE SUN'S ECLIPSE.

LACHRYMOSE WRITERS.

WHY ARE THEY SHUT?

THE LIBELLED BENEFACTOR.

DIRGE FOR A LIVING POET.

CAMPBELL'S FUNERAL.

THE LIFE AND DEATH.

HOPE'S YEARNINGS.

TO A LOG OF WOOD UPON THE FIRE.

UNPOSSESSED POSSESSIONS.

TO THE FURZE BUSH.

THE FIRST OF MARCH.

INVOCATION TO THE CUCKOO.

SPORTING WITHOUT A LICENCE.

THE QUARREL OF FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY.

THE CHOLERA MORBUS.

THE RECANTATION.

THE POET AMONG THE TREES.

TO THE LADIES OF ENGLAND.

THE SONG-VISION.

THE POET'S WINTER SONG TO HIS WIFE.

THE BIRTHDAY OF SPRING.

AN OLD MAN'S ASPIRATION.

THE CHARMS OF LIFE.

A HINT TO CYNICS.

THE BARD'S INSCRIPTION IN HIS DAUGHTER'S ALBUM.

A HINT TO THE FARMERS.

DISAPPOINTMENT.

THE DYING POET'S FAREWELL.

TO THE SETTING SUN.

ON THE STATUE OF A PIPING FAUN.

ON A GREEN-HOUSE.

ON A STUPENDOUS LEG OF GRANITE,

WRITTEN IN THE PORCH OF BINSTEAD CHURCH, ISLE OF WIGHT.

ON AN ANCIENT LANCE, HANGING IN AN ARMOURY.

THE NIGHTINGALE.

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THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE.

THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE.

SONNET TO MY OWN NOSE.

THE MILKMAID AND THE BANKER.

THE FARMER'S WIFE AND THE GASCON.

THE AUCTIONEER AND THE LAWYER.

THE GOUTY MERCHANT AND THE STRANGER.

THE FAT ACTOR AND THE RUSTIC.

THE BANK CLERK AND THE STABLE KEEPERS

PIRON, AND THE JUDGE OF THE POLICE.

THE FARMER AND THE COUNSELLOR.

THE COLLEGIAN AND THE PORTER.

THE MAYOR OF MIROBLAIS.

RABELAIS AND THE LAMPREYS.

THE PARSON AT FAULT.

BLINDMAN'S BUFF.

THE POET AND THE ALCHEMIST.

THE ASTRONOMICAL ALDERMAN.

SOUTH-DOWN MUTTON.

EVENING; AN ELEGY.

PATENT BROWN STOUT.

YORK KIDNEY POTATOES.

THE HANDKERCHIEF.

THE JESTER CONDEMNED TO DEATH.

LAUS ATRAMENTI,

THE TWO BRACELETS.

MARSHAL SAXE AND HIS PHYSICIAN.

STANZAS TO PUNCHINELLO.

THE HURRICANE AND THE MENACE.

THE PLEASANT TETE-A-TETE.

A TOUR TO THE LAKES.

AN EASY REMEDY.

MADAME TALLEYRAND AND THE TRAVELLER.

PROJECTS AND COMPANIES.

PITT'S BON-MOT.

HOBBS AND DOBBS.

MONSIEUR LE BRUN.

I.

POETICAL EPISTLE,

II.

SECOND POETICAL EPISTLE.

III.

THIRD POETICAL EPISTLE.

ST. GEORGE'S PENITENTIARY.

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

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MORAL COSMETICS.

Ye who would save your features florid,
Lithe limbs, bright eyes, unwrinkled forehead
From age's devastation horrid,
Adopt this plan;—
'Twill make, in climates cold or torrid,
A hale old man.—

Avoid, in youth, luxurious diet,
Restrain the passions' lawless riot;
Devoted to domestic quiet,
Be wisely gay:
So shall ye, spite of age's fiat,
Resist decay.

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Seek not in Mammon's worship pleasure,
But find your richest, dearest treasure,
In books, friends, music, polish'd leisure;
The mind, not sense,
Made the sole scale by which ye measure
Your opulence.

This is the solace, this the science,
Life's purest, sweetest, best appliance,
That disappoints not man's reliance,
Whate'er his state;
But challenges, with calm defiance,
Time, fortune, fate.