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To Miss- —, on her asking, &c.-"I'll ask the sylph," 171

Elegiac Stanzas-"How sweetly could I lay my head," 171

To Julia-" When time was entwining,"

To Rosa-" And are you then a thing of art,'

The Surprise-"Chloris, I swear, by all I ever swore,'

The Ballad "Thou hast sent me a flowery band,"

To Mrs

"How heav'nly was the Poet's doom,"

To a Lady, on her singing-"Thy song has taught,'

A Dream-" I thought this heart consuming lay,'

Written in a Common-place Book-" This tribute,"

The Tear-"On beds of snow the moonbeam slept,'

To Julia weeping-"Oh! if your tears are giv'n,"

Song" Have you not seen the timid tear,'

The Shield-"Oh! did you not hear a voice,"

Pity me, love! I'll pity thee,"

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Elegiac Stanzas-"Though sorrow long,"

A Night Thought-" How oft a cloud,"

Elegiac Stanzas-" When wearied wretches,"

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"With all my soul, then, let us part,'

A Reflection at Sea-" See how, beneath,"

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Come, tell me where the maid is found,"

Song "Sweetest love! I'll not forget thee,'

"Think on that look of humid ray,'

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"When Time, who steals our years away,"

Reuben and Rose-" The darkness which hung,'

The Ring. A Tale-" The happy day at length,'

Song "Why does azure deck the sky ?"

Morality-"Though long at school,"

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The Natal Genius. A Dream-"In witching slumbers," 192

The Tell-Tale Lyre-"I've heard, there was,"

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To Cara, after absence-" Conceal'd within,'

on New Year's Day-" When midnight,'

To the Invisible Girl-" They try to persuade me,'

Peace and Glory-" Where is now the smile ?"

To be the theme of every hour,"

Song "Take back the sigh thy lips of art,'

The Genius of Harmony, an Ode-"There lies a shell," 199

The Ring. To "No Lady! keep the ring,'

"When I lov'd you, I can't but allow,"

From the Greek of Meleager-"Fill high the cup,"

"I found her not-the chamber seem'd,"

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Love and Reason-" "Twas in the summer-time,"

Nay, do not weep, my Fanny dear!".

Aspasia ""Twas in the fair Aspasia's bower,"

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To Cloe, imitated from Martial-" I could resign,"

The Wreath and the Chain-"I bring thee, love,"

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"And hast thou marked the pensive shade" 210

Song "The wreath you wove,"

Lying "I do confess, in many a sigh,"

Anacreontic-"I fill'd to thee, to thee I drank," 212

-'s Picture-" Go then, if she whose shade," 213

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Fragment of Mythological Hymn-"Blest infant,"

To the Duke of Montpensier-"To catch the thought," 214

The Philosopher Aristippus. To a Lamp-"Oh love," 215

To Mrs Bl-h-d, written in her Album-"They say," 217

The Fall of Hebe-" "Twas on a day,"

Anacreontic-" She never look'd so kind before,"

To Mrs

Is not thy mind a gentle mind,"

Hymn of a Virgin of Delphi-"Oh! lost, for ever,'

To Miss Beckford, on her singing-"I more than once," 225

To Mrs Henry Tighe "Tell me the witching tale," 226

Impromptu, upon leaving some Friends-" No, never," 227

A Warning-" Oh! fair as Heaven and chaste,"

Woman-"Away, away-you're all the same,"

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'Come, take the harp-'tis vain to muse," 229

A Vision of Philosophy-" "Twas on the Red Sea,'

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"The world had just begun to steal,"

To Mrs

To see thee every day that came,'

To Lady H- on an old Ring-"When Grammont,' 223

To

'Never mind how the pedagogue proses," 234

Did Not ""Twas a new feeling-something more,' 234

At Night" At night, when all is still around,"

To Lord Viscount Strangford-"Sweet Moon,"

Stanzas "A beam of tranquillity smil'd,"

To the Flying Fish-" When I have seen,'

To Miss Moore-" In days, my Kate, when life,"

The Lake of the Dismal Swamp-" They made her," 242

To the Marchioness Dowager of Donegall,

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To George Morgan, Esq.-"Oh what a tempest,"

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Lines, written in a storm at Sea-"Oh! there's a holy," 248

IV.

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Well-peace to thy heart,"

ODES TO NEA:-

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Nay, tempt me not to love again,"

II. " You read it in my languid eyes,"

III. Dream of Antiquity-" I just had turn'd,"

V. "If I were yonder wave, my dear,"

VI. The Snow-Spirit-"No, ne'er did the wave," 254

VII. "I stole along the flowery bank,"

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IX. "There's not a look, a word of thine,"

To Joseph Atkinson, Esq.,-"The daylight is gone,"

The Steersman's Song" When freshly blows,'

To the Fire-fly-"This morning, when the earth,"

To Lord Viscount Forbes-"Ifformer times had never," 260

To Thomas Hume, Esq., M.D.-" "Tis evening," 265

On leaving Philadelphia-"Alone by the Schuylkill," 267

Lines, written at the Cohos-" From rise of morn,'
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Song of Evil Spirit of the Woods-"Now the vapour," 269

To the Hon. W. R. Spencer-"Thou oft has told me,' 270

Ballad Stanzas-" I knew by the smoke,"

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Canadian Boat-song-" Faintly as tolls the evening," 273

To Lady Charlotte Rawdon-" Not many months,"

Impromptu-" "Twas but for a moment,'

Written on passing Dead-Man's Island-"See you,"

To the Boston Frigate-" With triumph, this,"

Black and Blue Eyes-"The brilliant black eye,"

Dear Fanny-"She has beauty, but still you must,"

From Life without Freedom,"

"Here's the bower she lov'd so much,'

'I saw the Moon rise clear,"-Finland love Song,

Love and the Sun-dial-"Young Love found a dial,'

Love and Time-" "Tis said-but whether true,"

Love's light summer-cloud--" Pain and sorrow,'

'Love, wand'ring through the golden maze,"

Merrily every bosom boundeth,"-Tyrolese Song,

"Oh remember the time,"-The Castilian Maid,"

Oh, soon return-" The white sail caught,"

Love Thee-" Oh yes!-so well, so tenderly,"

One dear Smile-"Couldst thou look as dear,

The Day of Love-" The beam of morning,"

The song of war shall echo through,'

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"The young rose which I give thee,"

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When midst the gay I meet,

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“When twilight dews are falling soft,"

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Fanny, dearest" Oh! had I leisure to sigh,”

'Tis Love that murmurs in my breast,"

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The Pilgrim-" Holy be the pilgrim's sleep,'

"Wilt thou say farewell, love,'

My Mary Love, my Mary, dwells with thee,"

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"There breathes a language, known and felt,"

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THE OCES OF ANACREON:-

I. "I saw the smiling bard of pleasure,"

II. "Give me the harp of epic song,"

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III. "Listen to the Muse's lyre,"

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IV. "Vulcan! hear your glorious task,"

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V. "Grave me a cup with brilliant grace,'

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VI. "As late I sought the spangled bowers," 308

VII. "The women tell me every day,"

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VIII. "I care not for the idle state,"

IX. "I pray thee, by the gods above,"

X. "Tell me how to punish thee,"

XI. "Tell me, gentle youth, I pray thee,"

XII. "They tell how Atys, wild with love,"

XIII. "I will; I will; the conflict's past,"

XIV. "Tell me, why, my sweetest dove,'

XV. "Thou, whose soft and rosy hues,'

XVI. "And now with all thy pencil's truth."

XVII. "Now the star of day is high,"

XVIII. "Here recline you, gentle maid,"

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XIX. "One day, the Muses twin'd the hands," 317

Observe when mother earth is dry,"

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XXI. "The Phrygian rock, that braves,'

XXII. "I often wish this languid lyre,"

XXIII. "To all that breathe the airs of heaven," 319

XXIV. "Once in each revolving year," .

XXV. "Thy harp may sing of Troy's alarms,'

XXVI. "We read the flying courser's name,'

XXVII. "As in the Lemnian caves of fire,"

XXVIII. Yes-loving is a painful thrill,"

XXIX. ""Twas in an airy dream of night,"

XXX. "Arm'd with hyacinthine rod,".

XXXI. "Strew me a breathing bed of leaves,"

XXXII. "Twas noon of night, when round,"

XXXIII. "Oh thou, of all creation blest,"

XXXIV. " Cupid once upon a bed,".

XXXV. "If hoarded gold possess'd a power,"

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XXXVI. ""Twas night, and many a circling bowl," 328

XXXVII. "Let us drain the nectar'd bowl,"

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XXXVIII. "How I love the festive boy,"

XXXIX. "I know that Heaven ordains me here,"

XL. "When spring begems the dewy scene,"

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Yes, be the glorious revel mine,"

XLII "While our rosy fillets shed,"