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EPIGRAMS (continued) :-
44 'Hippona lets no silly flush"
"Thy lap-dog, Rufa, is a dainty beast"
"Jem writes his verses with more speed"
"Doris can find no taste in tea"
"What? rise again with all one's bones?"
On a Bad Singer
Occasioned by the last
On a Modern Dramatist
Directory and Direct-tory
On a very ugly woman
"There comes from old Avaro's grave"
"Last Monday all the papers said"
To a Critic who quoted an isolated passage, and
then declared it unintelligible
Song to be sung by the lovers of all the noble liquors
comprised under the name of Ale
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Drinking versus Thinking; or, a Song against the
"What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole"
"Charles, grave or merry, at no lie would stick"
"An evil spirit 's on thee, friend! of late"
"Here lies the Devil-ask no other name"
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To one who published in print what had been
entrusted to him by my fireside
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"Scarce any scandal, but has a handle"
"How seldom, friend, a good great man inherits”
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"In vain I praise thee, Zoilus"
Epitaph on a Mercenary Miser
A Dialogue between an Author and his Friend
Μωροσοφία, or Wisdom in Folly
"Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf!"
From an Old German Poet
On the Curious circumstance that in the German
language the Sun is feminine and the Moon
masculine
"When Surface talks of other people's worth"
To my Candle. The Farewell Epigram
"An excellent adage commands that we should"
SIBYLLINE LEAVES:-
Lines to W. L., Esq., while he sang a song to
The Day-dream. From an Emigrant to his absent
Purcell's music
To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre
Lines composed in a Concert-Room
To a Young Lady, on her Recovery from a Fever
Something Childish, but very Natural. Written in
Germany
Homesick. Written in Germany
Answer to a Child's Question
On Revisiting the Sea-shore, after long absence,
under strong medical reccommendation not to
bathe.
Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni
The British Stripling's War-Song.
Lines written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the
Ode to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, on the
twenty-fourth Stanza in her "Passage over
Mount Gothard"
Tranquillity: an Ode
Dejection: an Ode
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To William Wordsworth. Composed on the night
after his recitation of a Poem on the Growth
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The Night-Scene. A Dramatic Fragment
To a Lady. With Falconer's Shipwreck
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An Ode to the Rain, composed before daylight on
the morning appointed for the departure of a
very worthy, but not very pleasant Visitor,
whom it was feared the rain might detain
Elegy, imitated from one of Akenside's Blank-verse
Inscriptions
SIBYLLINE LEAVES (continued) :—
Tell's Birthplace. Imitated from Stolberg
Human Life. On the Denial of Immortality. A
The Visit of the Gods. Imitated from Schiller
The Pang more Sharp than All. An Allegory
Kubla Khan: or a Vision in a Dream
The Pains of Sleep
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Israel's Lament. Translation of a Hebrew Dirge,
by Hyman Hurwitz, chanted in the Great
Synagogue on the day of the Funeral of the
Princess Charlotte
Alice Du Clos: or The Forked Tongue.
declining life. A Soliloquy
A Ballad
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Duty surviving Self-love, the only sure friend of
Phantom or Fact? A Dialogue in Verse
Lines suggested by the last words of Berengarius. 308
Sancti Dominici Pallium; a Dialogue between Poet
and Friend
Lines to a Comic Author, on an abusive Review
Constancy to an Ideal Object
Modern Critics
"The poet in his lone yet genial hour"
Inscription for a Time-piece
Fancy in Nubibus: or the Poet in the Clouds.
Sonnet composed on the Sea-Coast
The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-Tree
The Exchange
Love's Burial-Place
The Suicide's Argument
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"Yes, yes! that boon, life's richest treat"
Romance
L'Envoy
The Garden of Boccaccio
On a Cataract from a cavern near the summit of a
mountain precipice
A Child's Evening Prayer
Love's Apparition and Evanishment. An Allegoric
Love, Hope, and Patience in Education
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