Poems

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• "Ad C: Favonium Aristium"
• "Ad C: Favonium Zephyrinum"
• Agrippina, a Tragedy
• "[Alcaic Fragment]"
• "[Alcaic Ode]"
• [The Alliance of Education and Government. A Fragment]
• "The Bard. A Pindaric Ode"
• "The Candidate"
• "[Caradoc]"
• "The Characters of the Christ-Cross Row, By a Critic, To Mrs ---"
• "[Conan]"
• "[Couplet about Birds]"
• De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Primus. Ad Favonium.
• De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Secundus.
• "[The Death of Hoel]"
• "The Descent of Odin. An Ode"
• "[Elegiac Verses]"
• "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
• "[Epitaph on a Child]"
• "[Epitaph on Mrs Clerke]"
• "[Epitaph on Mrs Mason]"
• "[Epitaph on Sir William Williams]"
• "[Farewell to Florence]"
• "The Fatal Sisters. An Ode"
• "From Petrarch. Lib: I: Sonett: 170"
• "[The Gaurus]"
• "[Gratia magna]"
• "[Horridos tractus]"
• "[Hymeneal]"
• "[Hymn to Ignorance. A Fragment]"
• "Imitated [from Buondelmonte]"
• "[Imitated] From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1."
• "Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg: 5:"
• [Impromptus]
• "In D[iem]: 29^am Maii"
• "In 5^tam Novembris"
• "Inscription for a Wood in a Park"
• "[Invitation to Mason]"
• "[Latin exercise from the Tatler]"
• "[Latin verses at Eton]"
• "[Lines on Beech Trees]"
• "[Lines on Dr Robert Smith]"
• "Lines on the Accession of George III"
• "[Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern]"
• "A Long Story"
• Luna habitabilis
• "Ode for Music"
• "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"
• "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes"
• "[Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude]"
• "Ode on the Spring"
• "Ode to Adversity"
• "[Oh ubi colles]"
• "On L[or]d H[olland']s Seat near M[argat]e, K[en]t"
• [Orders of Insects]
• "[Paraphrase of Psalm LXXXIV]"
• "[Parody on an Epitaph]"
• "The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode"
• "Satire on the Heads of Houses; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring"
• "[Sketch of his Own Character]"
• "Song I"
• "Song II"
• "Sonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West]"
• "[Sophonisba Masinissae. Epistola]"
• "Stanzas to Mr Bentley"
• "[Tophet]"
• "[Translation from Dante, Inferno Canto xxxiii 1-78]"
• "[Translation from Statius, Thebaid VI 646-88, 704-24]"
• "[Translation from Statius, Thebaid IX 319-26]"
• "[Translation] From Tasso [Gerusalemme Liberata] Canto, 14, Stanza, 32."
• "[Translation of Ode 'Away; let nought to love displeasing']"
• [Translations from the Greek Anthology]
• "The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment"
• [Verse Fragments]
• "William Shakespeare to Mrs Anne, Regular Servant to the Revd Mr Precentor of York"

• A moment's patience, gentle Mistress Anne!
• Alas lorica tectas Coleoptera jactant.
• And, as they bow their hoary tops, relate
• As sickly plants betray a niggard earth,
• Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake,
• Ἁζόμενος πολύθηρον ἑκηβόλου ἄλσος Ἀνάσσας,
• Barbaras aedes aditure mecum,
• Bella per Angliacos plusquam civilia campos
• Conan's name, my lay, rehearse,
• Crenaeus, whom the nymph Ismenis bore
• Daughter of Jove, relentless power,
• Dismissed at length, they break through all delay
• Do you ask why old Focus Silvanus defies,
• Dum Nox rorantes non incomitata per auras
• Egregium accipio promissi Munus amoris,
• Fertur Aristophanis fatorum arcana rogatum,
• From his dire food the grisly felon raised
• From purling streams and the Elysian scene,
• Gratia magna tuae fraudi quod Pectore, Nice
• Gratitude
• Great D draws near- the Duchess sure is come,
• Hactenus haud segnis Naturae arcana retexi
• Had I but the torrent's might,
• Hail, horrors, hail! ye ever-gloomy bowers,
• Have ye seen the tusky boar,
• "Hence, avaunt, ('tis holy ground)
• Here, foremost in the dangerous paths of fame,
• Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
• Horridos tractus, Boreaeque linquens
• Ignarae nostrum mentes, et inertia corda,
• In Britain's isle, no matter where,
• In silent gaze the tuneful choir among,
• In vain to me the smiling mornings shine,
• Lis anceps, multosque diu protracta per annos,
• Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours,
• Lo! where this silent marble weeps,
• Love, gentle power, to peace was e'er a friend:
• Lusit amicitiae interdum velatus amictu,
• Mater rosarum, cui tenerae vigent
• 'Midst beauty and pleasure's gay triumphs, to languish
• Nec procul infelix se tollit in aethera Gaurus,
• Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff,
• Now the golden Morn aloft
• Now the storm begins to lower,
• O Cambridge, attend
• O lachrymarum Fons, tenero sacros
• O Tu, severi relligio loci,
• . . . oh Faesulae amoena
• Oh ubi colles, ubi Faesularum,
• Oh! Tecta, mentis dulcis amor meae!
• Old and abandoned by each venal friend,
• Owen's praise demands my song,
• Pendet Homo incertus gemini ad confinia mundi
• . . . pluviaeque loquaces
• Prim Hurd attends your call and Palgrave proud,
• Qua Trebiae glaucas salices intersecat unda,
• `Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!
• Such Tophet was; so looked the grinning fiend
• Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die
• The Bishop of Chester
• The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
• The Old One's dead,
• Then thus the king: `Whoe'er the quoit can wield,
• There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there
• Thyrsis, when we parted, swore
• 'Tis well, begone! your errand is performed.
• Too poor for a bribe and too proud to importune,
• 'Twas on a lofty vase's side,
• Unde Animus scire incipiat: quibus inchoet orsa
• Uprose the King of Men with speed,
• Uror io! veros at nemo credidit ignes:
• Vah, tenero quodcunque potest obsistere amori,
• When sly Jemmy Twitcher had smugged up his face
• Ye distant spires, ye antique towers,
• You ask why thus my loves I still rehearse,