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A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 4] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]

DMI number:
1634
Publication Date:
1775
Volume Number:
4 of 6
ESTC number:
T144724
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Shelfmark:
BL 116.de.4
Full Title:
A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | IN SIX VOLUMES. | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | [ornament] | LONDON: | Printed for J. DODSLEY, in PALL-MALL. | M DCC LXXV.
Place of Publication:
London
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Miscellaneous collection
Format:
Duodecimo
Pagination:
[2], [1]-360 (p.96 mispaginated '69')
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HALF-TITLE: [ornamental rule] | A | COLLECTION of POEMS. | VOL. IV. | [ornamental rule] ESTC T144724 describes the 1775 octavo edition, this is a duodecimo from the same year, unrecorded.
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1775
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1775
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T144724
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A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 3] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
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1775
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T144724
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3 of 6
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A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 5] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
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1775
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T144724
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5 of 6
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A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 6] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
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1775
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6 of 6
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Content/Publication
First Line:
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
Page No:
pp.[1]-6
Poem Title:
An Elegy Written In A Country Church Yard.
Attribution:
By Mr. Gray.
Attributed To:
Thomas Gray
First Line:
Daughter of Jove relentless power
Page No:
pp.7-8
Poem Title:
Hymn to Adversity.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Thomas Gray
First Line:
O goodly discipline from heaven y-sprong
Page No:
p.9-49
Poem Title:
Education. A Poem: In Two Cantos. Written in Imitation of the Style and Manner of Spenser's Fairy Queen. Inscribed to Lady Langham, Widow of Sir John Langham, Bart.
Attribution:
By Gilbert West, Esq;
Attributed To:
Gilbert West
First Line:
Genius of Penshurst old
Page No:
pp.50-61
Poem Title:
Penshurst. Inscribed To William Perry, Esq; And The Honourable Mrs. Elizabeth Perry.
Attribution:
By the late Mr. F. Coventry.
Attributed To:
Francis Coventry
First Line:
Ye distant realms that hold my friend
Page No:
pp.61-63
Poem Title:
To The Hon. Wilmot Vaughan, Esq; in Wales.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Francis Coventry
First Line:
Sir | While born to bring the muse's happier days
Page No:
pp.64-65
Poem Title:
An Epistle Addressed to Sir Thomas Hanmer, On his Edition of Shakespear's Works.
Attribution:
By Mr. William Collins.
Attributed To:
William Collins
First Line:
To fair Fidele's grassy tomb
Page No:
pp.71-72
Poem Title:
A Song From Shakespear's Cymbeline. Sung by Guiderus and Arviragus over Fidele, supposed to be dead.
Attribution:
By the Same,
Attributed To:
William Collins
First Line:
O say thou dear possessor of my breast
Page No:
pp.73-75
Poem Title:
Elegy To Miss D---- W----d. In the Manner of Ovid.
Attribution:
By the late Mr. Hammond.
Attributed To:
James Hammond
First Line:
Too well these lines that fatal truth declare
Page No:
pp.75-78
Poem Title:
Answer to the foregoing Lines.
Attribution:
By the late Lord Hervey.
Attributed To:
John Hervey
First Line:
Since language never can describe my pain
Page No:
pp.78-85
Poem Title:
Epistles in the Manner of Ovid. Monimia to Philocles.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
John Hervey
First Line:
Ere death these closing eyes for ever shade
Page No:
pp.86-90
Poem Title:
Flora to Pompey.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
John Hervey
First Line:
Of all I valued all I loved bereft
Page No:
pp.91-97
Poem Title:
Arisbe to Marius Junior. From Fontenelle.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
John Hervey
First Line:
Think not I write my innocence to prove
Page No:
pp.98-102
Poem Title:
Roxana to Usbeck. From Less Lettres Persannes.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
John Hervey
First Line:
Before you sign poor Sophonisba's doom
Page No:
pp.103-104
Poem Title:
Epilogue design'd for Sophonisba, And to have been spoken by Mrs. Oldfield.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
John Hervey
First Line:
Forbear my dear Stephen with a fruitless desire
Page No:
p.105
Poem Title:
An Imitation of the eleventh Ode of the First Book of Horace.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
John Hervey
First Line:
What shall I say to fix thy wavering mind
Page No:
pp.106-108
Poem Title:
A Love Letter.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
When as of old the earth's bold children strove
Page No:
pp.109-110
Poem Title:
Verses to Dr. George Rogers, on his taking the Degree of Doctor in Physic at Padua, in the Year 1664.
Attribution:
By Mr. Waller.
Attributed To:
Edmund Waller
First Line:
I came great bard to gaze upon thy shrine
Page No:
pp.110-115
Poem Title:
Virgil's Tomb. Naples 1741.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Ye ladies that live in the city or town
Page No:
pp.115-117
Poem Title:
The Link. A Ballad.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Hard is the heart that never knew to love
Page No:
pp.117-150
Poem Title:
The Squire of Dames. A Poem. In Spenser's Stile.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The owl expires death gave the dreadful word
Page No:
pp.151-152
Poem Title:
On the Death of a Lady's Owl.
Attribution:
By the Same. [Preceding poem unattributed]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Let observation with extensive view
Page No:
pp.152-165
Poem Title:
The Vanity of Human Wishes. The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated
Attribution:
By Mr. Samuel Johnson.
Attributed To:
Samuel Johnson
First Line:
Led by the jocund train of vernal hours
Page No:
pp.166-171
Poem Title:
The Tears of Old May-Day.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Ye belles and ye flirts and ye pert little things
Page No:
pp.172-173
Poem Title:
Song for Ranelagh.
Attribution:
By Mr. W. Whitehead.
Attributed To:
William Whitehead
First Line:
Ye works of god on him alone
Page No:
pp.173-180
Poem Title:
The Benedicite Paraphrased.
Attribution:
By the Rev. Mr. Merrick.
Attributed To:
James Merrick
First Line:
Fancy whose delusions vain
Page No:
pp.181-185
Poem Title:
An Ode to Fancy.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
James Merrick
First Line:
Whoever with curious eye has ranged
Page No:
pp.186-187
Poem Title:
The Monkies, a Tale.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
James Merrick
First Line:
Thee Paeta death's relentless hand
Page No:
p.188
Poem Title:
Thus Translated.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
James Merrick
First Line:
You've read Sir in poetic strain
Page No:
pp.189-191
Poem Title:
Verses sent to Dean Swift on his Birth-day, with pine's Horace finely bound.
Attribution:
Written by Dr. J. Sican.
Attributed To:
J. Sican
First Line:
See how that pair of billing doves
Page No:
p.192
Poem Title:
Verses written in Garden.
Attribution:
By Lady M. W. M.
Attributed To:
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
First Line:
Is it to me this sad lamenting strain
Page No:
pp.193-194
Poem Title:
An Answer to a Love-Letter.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
First Line:
You little know the heart that you advise
Page No:
p.195
Poem Title:
In Answer to a lady who advised Retirement.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
First Line:
From every muse and every art thy own
Page No:
pp.196-197
Poem Title:
An Address of the Statues at Stowe, to Lord Cobham, on his Return to his Gardens.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Let others hail the rising sun
Page No:
pp.198-202
Poem Title:
An Ode On The Death of Mr. Pelham.
Attribution:
By Mr. Garrick.
Attributed To:
David Garrick
First Line:
Tarn how delightful wind thy willowed waves
Page No:
pp.203-204
Poem Title:
Verses Written at Montauban in France, 1750.
Attribution:
By the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton.
Attributed To:
Joseph Warton
First Line:
When fierce Pisarro's legions flew
Page No:
pp.204-205
Poem Title:
The Revenge of America.
Attribution:
By the same.
Attributed To:
Joseph Warton
First Line:
The dart of Izdabel prevails twas dipped
Page No:
pp.205-206
Poem Title:
The Dying Indian.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Joseph Warton
First Line:
Albion exult thy sons a voice divine have heard
Page No:
pp.207-209
Poem Title:
Ode occasion'd by Reading Mr. West's Translation of Pindar.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Joseph Warton
First Line:
Mother of musings contemplation sage
Page No:
pp.210-221
Poem Title:
The Pleasures of Melancholy. Written in the Year 1745.
Attribution:
By Mr. Thomas Warton.
Attributed To:
Thomas Warton
First Line:
W---de thy beechen slopes with waving grain
Page No:
pp.221-222
Poem Title:
A Sonnet: written at W----de, in the Absence of --.
Attribution:
By the same.
Attributed To:
Thomas Warton
First Line:
When late the trees were stripped by winter pale
Page No:
pp.222-223
Poem Title:
On Bathing, A Sonnet.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Thomas Warton
First Line:
All hail auspicious day whose wished return
Page No:
pp.223-224
Poem Title:
On Sir Robert Walpole's Birthday, August the 26th.
Attribution:
By the honourable Mr. D--ton.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
H---y would you know the passion
Page No:
p.223
Poem Title:
To Lady H---y.
Attribution:
By Mr. de Voltaire.
Attributed To:
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
First Line:
As by some tyrant's stern command
Page No:
pp.224-228
Poem Title:
The Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse.
Attribution:
Written in the Year 1744.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
O thou who labourst in this rugged mine
Page No:
pp.228-229
Poem Title:
By Miss Cooper (now Mrs. Madan) in her Brother's Coke upon Littleton.
Attribution:
By Miss Cooper (now Mrs. Madan)
Attributed To:
Judith Madan [nee Cowper]
First Line:
O solitude romantic maid
Page No:
pp.229-239
Poem Title:
Solitude. An Ode.
Attribution:
By Dr. Grainger.
Attributed To:
James Grainger
First Line:
Whilst William's deeds and William's praise
Page No:
pp.239-242
Poem Title:
An Ode To the Right Honourable Stephen Poyntz, Esq; &c, &c.
Attribution:
By the Honourable Sir Charles Han. Williams, Kt. of the Bath.
Attributed To:
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
First Line:
Try not my St---e tis in vain
Page No:
pp.243-244
Poem Title:
Ode on the Death of Matzel, a favourite Bull-finch, address'd to Mr. St--pe, to whom the Author had given the Reversion of it when he left Dresden.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
First Line:
Come Chloe and give me sweet kisses
Page No:
pp.245-246
Poem Title:
Martialis Epigramma. Lib. VI. Ep. 34. Imitated.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
First Line:
When now mature in classic knowledge
Page No:
pp.246-251
Poem Title:
The Progress of Discontent. A Poem. Written at Oxford in the Year 1746.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Dear Chloe while the busy crowd
Page No:
pp.251-254
Poem Title:
The Fireside.
Attribution:
By Dr. Cotton.
Attributed To:
Nathaniel Cotton
First Line:
Tomorrow didst thou say
Page No:
pp.255-256
Poem Title:
To-Morrow.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Nathaniel Cotton
First Line:
It puzzles much the sages' brains
Page No:
pp.256-257
Poem Title:
On Lord Cobham's Gardens.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Nathaniel Cotton
First Line:
Fairest flower all flowers excelling
Page No:
p.257
Poem Title:
To a Child of Five Years Old.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Nathaniel Cotton
First Line:
Ne gay attire ne marble hall
Page No:
pp.258-259
Poem Title:
Father Francis's Prayer. Written in Lord Westmoreland's Hermitage.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Sweet bird that singest on yonder spray
Page No:
pp.258-259
Poem Title:
An Inscription in the Cell.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Beneath these moss grown roots this rustic cell
Page No:
p.259
Poem Title:
An Inscription on the Cell.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Sheweth | That your honour's petitioners dealers in rhymes
Page No:
pp.260-261
Poem Title:
To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Here all thy active fires diffuse
Page No:
pp.262-266
Poem Title:
An Ode Performed In The Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1, 1749. At the Installation of his Grace Thomas Holles Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University. ... Set to Music by Mr. Boyce, Composer to his Majesty.
Attribution:
By Mr. Mason, Fellow of Pembroke-Hall.
Attributed To:
William Mason
First Line:
Yes magic lyre now all complete
Page No:
pp.267-268
Poem Title:
Ode to an Aeolus's Harp. Sent to Miss Shepheard.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
William Mason
First Line:
Health to thee thy votary owes
Page No:
pp.268-270
Poem Title:
Ode to Health.
Attribution:
By Mr. Duncombe, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Attributed To:
John Duncombe
First Line:
Bright god of day whose genial power
Page No:
pp.271-272
Poem Title:
A Vernal Ode. Sent to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, March 12, 1754.
Attribution:
By Francis Fawkes, A. M.
Attributed To:
Francis Fawkes
First Line:
Yet once more glorious god of day
Page No:
pp.273-274
Poem Title:
An Autumnal Ode.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Francis Fawkes
First Line:
Awful hero Marlborough rise
Page No:
pp.276-278
Poem Title:
The Genius. An Ode, written in 1717, on occasion of the Duke of Marlborough's Apoplexy.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Oft Faunus leaves Arcadia's plain
Page No:
pp.278-279
Poem Title:
Book I. Ode XVII. Invitation to his Mistress.
Attribution:
By Mr. Marriott, of Trininty-Hall, Cambridge.
Attributed To:
James Marriott
First Line:
Bevil that with your friend would roam
Page No:
p.280
Poem Title:
Book II. Ode VI. Imitated.
Attribution:
By Mr. Marriott, of Trinity-Hall, Cambridge. (p.278)
Attributed To:
James Marriott
First Line:
The wars of Numantia and Hannibal dire
Page No:
pp.281-282
Poem Title:
Book II. Ode XII. Translated.
Attribution:
By Mr. Marriott, of Trinity-Hall, Cambridge. (p.278)
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
While objects of a parent's care
Page No:
pp.282-283
Poem Title:
To a Lady making a Pin-Basket.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
James Marriott
First Line:
Erst in Cythera's sacred shade
Page No:
pp.284-285
Poem Title:
Captain Cupid.
Attribution:
By the same.
Attributed To:
James Marriott
First Line:
The mariner when first he sails
Page No:
pp.285-287
Poem Title:
Ode on Ambition.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Francis Fawkes
First Line:
Gilding with brighter beams the vernal skies
Page No:
pp.287-293
Poem Title:
Ode to Fancy.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
James Marriott
First Line:
My dear companion and my faithful friend
Page No:
pp.293-295
Poem Title:
An Address to his Elbow Chair, new cloath'd.
Attribution:
By the late W. Somerville, Esq; Author of the Chace*.
Attributed To:
William Somervile
First Line:
As over Asteria's fields I rove
Page No:
pp.295-296
Poem Title:
Song.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
William Somervile
First Line:
How long shall tyrant custom bind
Page No:
pp.296-298
Poem Title:
Ode to a Friend wounded in a Duel.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The busy cares of day are done
Page No:
pp.299-301
Poem Title:
Ode to Night.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The winds were loud the clouds deep hung
Page No:
pp.302-303
Poem Title:
Written upon leaving a Friend's House in Wales.
Attribution:
By the Rev. Dr. M.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Reflecting on thy worth methinks I find
Page No:
p.304
Poem Title:
Dennis to Mr. Thomson, Who had procured hm a Benefit-Night.
Attribution:
Dennis
Attributed To:
John Dennis
First Line:
How easy was Colin how blithe and how gay
Page No:
pp.305-306
Poem Title:
Song. 1753.
Attribution:
I. S. H.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Hark to the blackbird's pleasing note
Page No:
pp.306-307
Poem Title:
The Bulfinch in Town.
Attribution:
By a Lady of Quality.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
The sun his gladsome beams withdrawn
Page No:
pp.307-309
Poem Title:
Song. Written in Winter, 1745.
Attribution:
By the Same. [i. e. a Lady of Quality]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
You bid my muse not cease to sing
Page No:
pp.309-310
Poem Title:
Written to a near Neighbour in a tempestuous Night, 1748.
Attribution:
By the Same. [i.e. a Lady of Quality]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Tis nature here bids pleasing scenes arise
Page No:
pp.310-311
Poem Title:
Written at Ferme Ornee, near Birmingham; August 7th, 1749.
Attribution:
By the Same. [i.e. a Lady of Quality]
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
To you whose groves protect the feathered choirs
Page No:
pp.311-314
Poem Title:
The Goldfinches. An Elegy.
Attribution:
By Mr. Jago.
Attributed To:
Richard Jago
First Line:
The sun had chased the mountain snow
Page No:
pp.315-318
Poem Title:
The Blackbirds. An Elegy.
Attribution:
By the same.
Attributed To:
Richard Jago
First Line:
An open heart a generous mind
Page No:
pp.318-319
Poem Title:
The Rake.
Attribution:
By a Lady in New England.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Let sages with superfluous pains
Page No:
pp.320-322
Poem Title:
Flowers.
Attribution:
By Anthony Whistler, Esq;
Attributed To:
Anthony Whistler
First Line:
While Strephon thus you tease one
Page No:
p.322
Poem Title:
Song.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Anthony Whistler
First Line:
Lo the rich casket's mimic dome
Page No:
pp.323-326
Poem Title:
The Cabinet. Or, Verses on Roman Medals. To Mr. W.
Attribution:
By Mr. Greaves.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Welcome to Baiae's streams ye sons of spleen
Page No:
pp.326-327
Poem Title:
Panacea: Or, The Grand Restorative.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Richard Graves
First Line:
In ancient times some hundred winters past
Page No:
p.328
Poem Title:
The Heroines, or Modern Memoirs.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Richard Graves
First Line:
The rising sun through all the grove
Page No:
pp.329-330
Poem Title:
The Parting... Written some Years after Marriage.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
Richard Graves
First Line:
O memory celestial maid
Page No:
pp.330-332
Poem Title:
Ode to Memory. 1748.
Attribution:
By William Shenstone, Esq;
Attributed To:
William Shenstone
First Line:
Will you hear how once repining
Page No:
pp.333-335
Poem Title:
The Princess Elizabeth: A Ballad, alluding to a Story recorded of her, when she was a Prisoner at Woodstock, 1554.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
William Shenstone
First Line:
Survey my fair that lucid stream
Page No:
pp.335-336
Poem Title:
Ode to a Young Lady, Somewhat too sollicitous about her Manner of Expression.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
William Shenstone
First Line:
How blithely passed the summer's day
Page No:
pp.337-340
Poem Title:
Verses written towards the close of the Year 1748, to William Lyttelton, Esq;
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
William Shenstone
First Line:
In a vale fringed with woodland where grottos abound
Page No:
pp.340-341
Poem Title:
Songs. By the Same.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
William Shenstone
First Line:
Ye birds for whom I reared the grove
Page No:
pp.341-342
Poem Title:
II. Daphne's Visit.
Attribution:
By the Same [p. 340; i. e. Shenstone]
Attributed To:
William Shenstone
First Line:
See Flavia see that budding rose
Page No:
pp.342-343
Poem Title:
III. The Rose-Bud.
Attribution:
By the Same [p. 340; ie. Shenstone]
Attributed To:
William Shenstone
First Line:
Adieu ye jovial youths who join
Page No:
pp.343-344
Poem Title:
IV. Written in a Collection of Bacchanalian Songs.
Attribution:
By the Same [p. 340; ie. Shenstone]
Attributed To:
William Shenstone
First Line:
Yes these are the scenes where with Iris I strayed
Page No:
p.344
Poem Title:
V. Imitated from the French.
Attribution:
By the Same [p. 340; ie. Shenstone]
Attributed To:
William Shenstone
First Line:
Here in cool grot and mossy cell
Page No:
pp.345-346
Poem Title:
I. On a Root-House.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
William Shenstone
First Line:
O let me haunt this peaceful shade
Page No:
pp.346-347
Poem Title:
II. In a shady Valley, near a running Water.
Attribution:
By the Same. [p.345]
Attributed To:
William Shenstone
First Line:
O you that bathe in courtly blysse
Page No:
p.347
Poem Title:
III. On a small Building in the Gothic Taste.
Attribution:
By the Same. [p.345]
Attributed To:
William Shenstone
First Line:
Ye shepherds so cheerful and gay
Page No:
pp.348-357
Poem Title:
A Pastoral Ballad, in Four Parts. Written in 1743.
Attribution:
By the Same.
Attributed To:
William Shenstone