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Poems

Consisting Of Essays, Lyric, Elegiac, &c. By Thomas Dermody. Written between the 13th and 16th Year of his Age

Dermody, Thomas (1775-1802)

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS OF MOIRA.

MEMORY: A POEM.

ELEGY TO FLORELIA.

IRREGULAR ODE TO THE SUN.

LINES TO MY ESTEEMED MR. JOHN BAYNHAM.

SONNET TO THE REV. MR. EDWARD BERWICK.

ON AN ANTIQUARIAN.

ON AN HONEST MAN WHO WAS BURIED BETWEEN A PARSON AND A LAWYER.

THE POET's PEN.

TO MY OWN SELF.

TO MISS SIDNEY AND MISS OLIVIA OWENSON.

TO THE GOD OF GOODNESS.

A MILTONIC EPISTLE.

TO MY NOBLE FRIENDS THE CRITICS,

TO AN OLD BEAUTY.

AN EPISTLE NUGATORY,

ODE TO THE COLLEGIANS.

VERSES, WITH A NECKLACE,

ON SENSIBILITY WITHOUT FEELING.

ON THE GRAVE OF A MURDERED INFANT.

IMITATION OF AN OLD SONG,

THE PENITENT's COMPLAINT.

A SCOTCH SERENADE.

MY OWN APOTHEOSIS.

THE LINNET's LAMENT.

A POETICAL ADDRESS

THE FAREWEL, OR VOYAGE OF LIFE.

WOMAN AND WINE,

FURNITURE OF A COURTIER's UPPER STORY.

TO SAMUEL WHYTE, Esq.

TO A SCRIBBLING PHYSICIAN.

THE POET's INVENTORY.

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TO MISS SIDNEY AND MISS OLIVIA OWENSON.

Blithe, in the blooming morn of youth,
Sincerity, my guide, and Truth,
Ere Pride my tranquil slumber broke,
Ere Praise in pomp unmeaning spoke,
To You I tun'd the fervent lay,
Tender, and innocently gay;
And while I sought your candid ear,
Listening, you lean'd, well pleas'd to hear
Numbers that could pure joy impart,
And melody that won the heart;
Twin-roses, now, in vernal prime,
Accept this fond, this grateful rhime!
And, 'stead of toiling up Parnassus,
Wooing, so warm, its tuneful lasses,

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Let me, (now Wit his pow'r infuses,)
E'en make ye, ladies, serve as muses;
Sydney and Livy, then, shall be
Thalia and Melpomene.