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Lines written at Avignon

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Lines addressed to a Female Relation; with Madame de Sevigne's

Letters, previous to her Embarkation for the Continent

Lines upon the Dogana at Venice .

A Farewell upon the breaking up of an old Convivial Party

Lines for a private Theatrical of "Who's the Dupe?" at a Country

Seat during the Winter Season

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75

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81

Lines upon the Death of a Friend; as a Wanderer was leaning over

Lines written in a Sick Chamber

Lines upon the late Fire in the House of Commons

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98

Early Recollections

101

A Mon Lit, sur l'Anniversaire, de ma Naissance

Sonnet upon a Vine, brought from the Temple of Isis, at Pompeii, and

planted in the Author's Garden

Sonnet addressed to a Lady

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Lines addressed to a Lady by her Husband upon the Anniversary of

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Lines upon a Squirrel climbing a Tree, under which a favourite Terrier

had been buried

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Stanzas upon a Prospect of ** Castle

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Sonnet addressed to a Lady, lamenting she could not write Verses

191

Ballad upon Poland

195

Anacreontic Sonnet

199

Sonnet upon a Lady being stung by a Bee, in a Paddock where a

favourite Hunter was found Dead

201

Lines written in a blank Page of the "Lady of the Lake"

205

Imitation of the Ode from Callistratus

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Imitation of Ariosto's "La Virginella e' Simile alla Rosa." Forty-

second Stanza, First Book

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Imitation of Lorenzo de Medici's Sonnet, " Cerchi chi vuol le Pompe,

egli alti Onori"

212

Imitation of the Fifth Ode, First Book of Horace

214

Do. of Thirteenth Ode of the First Book of Horace

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Imitation of Fifteenth Ode of the First Book of Horace

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Do.

Do.

of Eleventh Ode of the Second Book of Horace

of Fourteenth Ode of the Second Book of Horace

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VERS DE SOCIETE.

ETC. ETC.

LINES

ADDRESSED TO A LADY QUITTING LONDON.

"When compell'd to be parted from those,

"With whom friendship delighted would dwell;

"How gloomy th' ev'ning must close,

"That ushers the morning-Farewell."

Old Ballad.

You request, ere we part, a brief line to convey, The sensations obscuring this long-dreaded day;

VOL. II.

B

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LINES ADDRESSED TO A

And as with your mandate, the Muse must comply,

Not a blush o'er that dimple shall spread its soft dye;

Or envelope those features, so modest and mild,

Proclaiming their owner, Simplicity's child ;

For we know the dislike of your sensitive frame,
If the cynical world ever mention your name;
That name to the wind ne'er was whisper'd by me;
And this verse shall be sacred, to friendship and thee,
High-bred without falsehood, by fashion unchill'd,
In each feminine grace, and accomplishment skill'd;
With a knowledge of books you discreetly conceal;
With an insight of life you as seldom reveal;
From the tumult of pleasure you gladly retire,
To the shelter of home, and your own social fire;
And prove by your conduct, deportment, and air,
What a polish our country's bright jewels can bear.
Then establish'd for months in your summer retreat,
(That temple of dulness-a fine country seat ;)
No Prospero's wand, with its magical spell,
Absent friends to recall, and the vapours dispel ;
But you saunter each morn, thro' a desolate park,
Your attendants the deer, and your music the lark;