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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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IMITATION OF AN OLD SONG,

By Sir CHARLES SEDLEY.

While, lip to lip, exstatic panting,
I, all-requiring, you all-granting;
While breast to breast, with curious eye
Thy wond'rous store of charms I spy,
Ah! who wou'd weep, who wish to die,
Except, in agonies of bliss?
Yet, such his spite, fell Death, with thunder,
Shall rive our twining arms asunder,
Then let's pursue the precious plunder,
And life, extinguish in a kiss,
Ev'n Death, himself, will pause at this!