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A hermit's house beside a stream
`Retirement__written in America by a native bard. M[orning] Herald 1789'
To triumph not to die.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 56v
A youth adorned with ev'ry art
Mallet, David
`A song in the masque of Alfred'
No cries awake the dead.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 37
Ah! Delia see the fatal hour!
Carter, Elizabeth
`Translated from the Italian by Miss [Elizabeth] Carter'
Wilt ever think on me?
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 24v
Ah! Hills beloved! Where once a happy child
Smith, Charlotte
`Sonnet. To the South Downs'
There's no oblivion but in death alone!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 26
Ah Robin, dear Robin, adieu!
Chapman, Elizabeth
`On the death of a favorite robin' [June 1793]
Ah Robin, dear Robin, adieu!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 8
Ah wherefore, tyrant passion with thy rage
`Scriblerus'
`Scriblerus...Sonnet...4 June 1789'
And lov'd Eliza's bliss be all my grateful care!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 49v
Ah who can tell how hard it is to climb
Beattie, James
`The Minstrel' [I.xxiii-xxvii]
Bright through th'eternal year of love's triumphant reign.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 27
All hail inexorable lord
Burns, Robert
`To ruin'
Within thy cold embrace?
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 11v
Almighty power my father and my friend,
`Scriblerus'
`Scriblerus...A prayer...vide Spectator no. [blank] vol. [blank]'
Oh! let us meet, and bless thy name at last.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 15
Amid the purple clouds, the glitt'ring sun
`Scriblerus'
`Scriblerus...On sunset. Vide opening to Marmontel's Sheperdess of the Alps'
Oh! wretched life, how weary is thy stay!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 26
As Britain's monarch guards our favour'd isle,
`Twelfth-day character__King'
To bless his subjects, and adorn his throne.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 8v
As some brave knight who once with spear and shield,
Rowe, Nicholas
`Epilogue to the comedy of Love for Love represented in the spring of 1709 for the benefit of Mr. Thomas Betterton'
And hang his consecrated buskin here.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 34
As those we love decay, we die in part
Thomson, James
`Epitaph'
Till dying, all he can resign is breath!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 25v
At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still
Beattie, James
`The hermit'
And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 15v
Beneath the fir-tree's mournful shade
`Scriblerus'
`Scriblerus' `Epitaph on a canary-bird and blackbird buried in Eliza's garden March 1790'
As spotless as her own.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 71
Beneath this covering, innocence shall sleep,
Chapman, Elizabeth
`Lines from Eliza to her god-daughter...May 1789'
Thy spirit join its kindred spirits there.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 49v
Blest be thy friendly light which o'er the plain
`Scriblerus'
`Scriblerus' `Sonnet to the moon. Composed...1788'
Confide in him my father and my God.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 11
Could but our tempers move like this machine
`For a watch'
And everlasting joy, when time shall be no more.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 36v
Dark was the night, and wild the storm,
Percy, Thomas, bp. of Dromore
`The hermit of Warkworth a Northumberland ballad'
All worthy of their name.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 58v
Eliza thou whose sympathetic heart
`Scriblerus'
`Scriblerus' `Sonnet. To Eliza recovering from sickness. (Novr. 1788)'
Where pain and sorrow cease, and ev'ry thought is joy.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 31v
Faintly brayed the battle's roar
Penrose, Thomas
`The field of battle'
to worse than death and deepest night.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 22
For ever fortune wilt thyu prove.
Thomson, James
`Song'
Make but the dear Amanda mine.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 28
Friend, sister, partner of that gentle heart,
Langhorne, Dr. John
`Precepts of conjugal happiness; addressed to a lady on her marriage'
To teach that prudence which itself admires.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 52
From thee Eliza I must go
Burns, Robert
`The Ayrshire plowman'
And thine the latest sigh.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 11
Go patter to lubbers and swabs, do ye see,
Dibdin, Charles, 1745_1814
`Poor Jack'
Will look out a good berth for poor Jack!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 57
Go! Yarrow flower thou shalt be blest
Hamilton, William, of Bangor
`The flower of Yarrow. To Lady Mary Montgomery' [one of the twenty children of Alexander Montgomerie, 9th earl of Eglintoun]
The charm of beauty is possessing.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 29
Goddess of golden dreams! Whose magic power
`Fancy__an elegy'
And give me, more than fortune can bestow!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 30
Hark! From afar the solemn bell
`Scriblerus'
`The death-bell. Written at Warminster Augt. 1788'
In happier realms to dwell.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 21
Haste away thou tardy lover
`Song'
You shall find a welcome here.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 35
How shall the muse, the muse of late so gay
T., Miss E. S.
`Sonnet. To T. E. T. on his birthday 4 Janry. 1789'
The rose content, if not the diamond fame.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 37
How sleep the brave who sink to rest,
Collins, William
`Epitaph written in the year 1745'
To dwell a weeping hermit there.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 57v
How sleep the brave who sink to rest,
Collins, William
`Epitaph written in the year 1745'
To dwell a weeping hermit there.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 43v
I long have thought my youthful friend
Burns, Robert
`Epistle to a young friend'
Than ever did th'adviser.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 13v
I love thee, mournful sober-suited night
Smith, Charlotte
`To night. A sonnet'
May reach, though lost on earth the ear of Heav'n.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 18
It was a winter's evening, and fast came down the snow
`A winter piece (elegant extracts'
Then cast her eyes to heaven, bowed her head and died.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 28
Know thou, O stranger to the fame
Burns, Robert
[epitaph `for R. A. esq.' [pr. Poems 1787]
A warmer heart death ne'er made cold.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 11v
Let coward guilt with pallid fear
Carter, Elizabeth
`Written at midnight in a thunderstorm' [pr. Poems, 1762]
Of everlasting day.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 23
My muse attend, inspire my pen to say
`On the Magdalen Charity really written by a Magdalen. A.D. 1789'
Yes calumny! they pray, rejoice and praise.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 58
Nor faith, nor hope whate'er their source,
Hayley, William
`A hymn written for Sunday schools'
The knowledge of her God.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 41v
Of all the ills unhappy mortals know
`Lines written on the window of an inn in Scotland'
Long worn with griefs and long without a friend.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 32
Oh! Pause awhile whoe'er thou art,
Harrington, Dr.
`Lines inscribed on the pump in the Pump Room at Bath'
The poor receive from thee.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 31v
Oh! Thou that with a crime before unknown,
`Scriblerus'
`Scriblerus' 1Epitaph. Vide New Atlantis'
From guilty pleasures, and a broken vow.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 18
Oh! Thou, who know'st a lenient balm to lay,
`To time a sonnet__Morning herald Dec. 1. 1788'
That hopes from thee, and thee alone a cure.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 35v
Parent of virtue, if thine ear
Langhorne, Dr. John
`Hymn. To humanity'
Indulge my votive strain, oh sweet humanity!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 42
Rise, honored poet, from thy hallowed bed.
`Scriblerus'
`The Shakespeare gallery...opened by Mr. Alderman Boydell, in Pall Mall, May 1789'
Which Britain and her Shakespeare owe to thee.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 50
Roving through life's uncertain ways
T., T. E.
`To the same friend [see fol. 6] Dec. 2 1793'
No groundless fears destroy.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 7
Sleep, sleep, poor youth! Sleep, sleep in peace,
D'Urfey, Thomas
`A dirge...in Don Quixote'
The folly of the farce is done.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 20
Sweet minstrel! For thy piteous fate,
`Arabert'
`On a blackbird who perished in a cage through want. March. 1790...Morning herald'
A fun'ral hymn to chant.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 70v
Sweet semblance of the absent fair,
`To Eliza's portrait...June 1789'
In brightest tints endure.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 54
The glories of our birth and state
Shirley, James
`The vanity of greatness'
Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 17v
The poor man weeps, here G___ sleeps,
Burns, Robert
`On G. H. esq.' [pr. Poems, 1787]
May I be sav'd or damn'd.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 11v
The sailor sighs as sinks his native shore,
Rogers, Samuel
`A sailor's elegy'
And clasps the maid he singled from the world.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 40
This sacred grotto pass not by,
`Lines inscribed in a grotto...at Widcomb near Bath'
But like this fountain constant flow.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 35v
Thou gentle son of silence and of night
Hutton, H.
`To sleep. A sonnet' [imitation of G. B. Marino, Rime, 1602]
At least the image of that death I crave.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 41
Though thou, my charming boy, wert born
`To a natural child__translated from Secundus...Publ. Adv., March '90'
A joy he never felt till now.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 71
Through groves sequestered, dark, and still,
Hawksworth, Dr.
`A moral thought'
And mingles with eternity.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 18v
Through summer's heat and winter's cold,
`Scriblerus'
`Scriblerus...to Eliza on her birthday Decr. 21st 1788'
Thy heart where truth and friendship reign.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 36
Thy braes were bonny Yarrow stream
Logan, John
`The braes of Yarrow' [pr. Poems, 1781]
And now with him she sleeps in Yarrow.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 39
Thy self-wrought sorrows Werther whilst I view
Peckard, Mrs. Martha (Ferrar)
`On reading The sorrows of Werther'
That virtuous tears alone for virtuous sorrows flow.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 34
Tired of the world's tumultuous alarms
`Solitude'
Though short our friendship when we bade farewell!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 18v
Tis not the fear of death or smart,
`Lines in answer to a challenge'
Whenever she's not there.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 40
To horrid wastes I go, to savage climes,
`Lines written at Portsmouth by a convict going to Botany Bay...Pub. Adv., Aug. 1789'
Since English earth may mingle with his mold'ring heart!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 56
To thee, sweet innocence I send
Chapman, Elizabeth
`Lines...to her god-daughter, with a present of the manual of religious morality__Febry. 1789'
The index of an heavenly mind.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 40v
Unmourned the young Lorenzo dies
`Lines (by a lady) on the death of a young gentleman who came from...abroad...and died'
The lily and the friend shall weep.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 38
Untimely gone, forever fled!
Logan, John
`On the death of a young lady'
Though moistened with a tender tear!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 20
Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower
Burns, Robert
`To a mountain daisy on tuning one down with the plough in April 1786' [pr. Poems, 1787]
Shall be thy doom.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 16v
What are the boasted joys of love?
`Song. In the opera of The prophet'
That did not tremble too.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 36v
What I shall leave thee, none can tell,
Corbett, Richard
`To his son Vincent on his birthday the 10th November 1630, being then three years of age' [pr. Poems, 1647]
As innocent as now thou art.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 157v
What is the existence of man's life
King, Henry
`The dirge' [pr. Poems, 1657]
And leaves no epilogue but death.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 24
Whate'er of mild affections was beloved
`Epitaph, on Mrs. Fagan in St. Pancras churchyard'
And strive to copy what they must admire.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 29
When chill November's surly blast
Burns, Robert
`Man was made to mourn; a dirge' [pr. Poems, 1787]
That weary-laden mourn!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 12
When love with unconfined wings
Lovelace, Richard
[pr. Lucasta, 1649, with ref. to setting by John Wilson]
Know no such liberty.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 26v
When we with dire distress are sore oppressed,
`On suicide'
The coward kills himself, the brave lives on!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 21
Where mid the ruins of a fallen state__
`The following poem of The exile was occasioned by reading [O44] and is inscribed in the mirror'
To clasp the sod, and feel my woes no more!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 32
Where'er thy mortal part be laid
`In memory of the Revd. Mr. Dobey late chaplain to the Magdalen (diary Th. June 25, 1789)' [John D., ordained priest London 24 Dec. 1758?]
Peace to thy manes gentle shade!
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 51v
While 'mid the sweet retreats of Stowe
T., T. E.
`T.E.T....lines to a friend. May 1793'
And at his call retire.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 6
While night in solemn shades invests the pole,
`To Eliza. Written at midnight...July 1. 1796'
With its last pulse, to beat for her alone.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 71v
Whoe'er like me with trembling anguish brings
`On a lady who died...at the [Bristol] hot wells...in the evening paper'
And not to earth resigned her, but to God.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 28v
Why love's my flower, the sweetest flower
Langhorne, Dr. John
`The wall-flower'
That bloom to cheer his lonely way.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 54v
Why steals from my bosom the sigh
Mackenzie, Henry
`Elegy from The man of feeling' [1771]
The thought of her Colin pursue.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 44
Ye woods and ye mountains unknown
Mallet, David
`Song. In the masque of Alfred'
I feel till I see her again.
Bodley
Montagu e. 14
f. 37v
