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A collection of the best modern poems [T124388] [ecco]

DMI number:
1182
Publication Date:
1771
Volume Number:
1 of 1
ESTC number:
T124388
EEBO/ECCO link:
CW110389799
Shelfmark:
ECCO BOD BL
Full Title:
A | COLLECTION | OF THE BEST | MODERN POEMS. | [rule] | [ornamant] | [double rule] | PRINTED IN THE YEAR MDCCLXXI. | [PRICE THREE SHILLINGS.]
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Duodecimo
Price:
Three shillings
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Half title: [ornamental rule] | A | COLLECTION | OF THE BEST | MODERN POEMS. | [ornamental rule]
Other matter:
Prefatory matter: Contents [4pp.]
Content/Publication
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Some husbands on a winter day
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pp.1-7
Poem Title:
The Pig. A Tale.
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Remote from cities in a country town
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pp.8-11
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The Lyar: An Heroic Tale.
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Hirco an old but amorous blade
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pp.12-18
Poem Title:
The Leaky Vessel.
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When good king Jemmy wore the British crown
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pp.18-20
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The Merry Monarch; or Knighthood a Jest.
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Sir John a country magistrate
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pp.21-23
Poem Title:
The Country Justice
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On reading over your proclamation
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pp.23-27
Poem Title:
The Power of Scolding, a wonderful Tale
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by Jack Lovesun
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When infants are born by experience we find
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pp.27-29
Poem Title:
The Furniture of a Beau's Mind
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We sage Cartesians who profess
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pp.29-34
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The Fair Nun, or Woman an Overmatch for the Devil. A Tale.
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In fruitful Lombardy of yore
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pp.34-48
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The Royal Cuckold
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A set of phrases learnt by rote
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pp.49-50
Poem Title:
The Furniture of a Woman's Mind
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Beneath a court's luxuriant skies
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pp.51-53
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The Mill. A Tale.
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A virtuoso had a mind to see
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pp.53-55
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The Incurious. A Tale.
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With envy fraught and malediction
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pp.55-59
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Measure for Measure. A Tale.
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Happy the man the cobler or the bard
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pp.59-61
Poem Title:
The Pleasures of Poverty
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The chiming bells from every steeple
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pp.62-66
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John, the English Footman, a Tale.
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Turn gentle hermit of the dale
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pp.66-71
Poem Title:
The Hermit
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Happy the man who free from noisy sports
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p.72
Poem Title:
The Happy Man
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Sylvia in days of yore had been
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pp.73-75
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The Crooked Stick. A Tale.
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All hail thou pleasing cheerful morn
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pp.75-76
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On May-Morning.
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Oh thou whose pinion did overspread the deep
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pp.77-79
Poem Title:
The Pleasures of the Night
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Behold my fair wherever we rove
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p.80
Poem Title:
The Winter's Walk
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A farmer once to London went
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pp.81-84
Poem Title:
The Farmer's Blunder
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This preacher silent yet severe
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pp.84-86
Poem Title:
On seeing a Scull
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Shakespeare's receipt to tame a shrew
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pp.86-90
Poem Title:
A new Receipt to tame a Shrew
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Fair rose whose lively glow the fancy warms
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pp.90-92
Poem Title:
The Rose
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Let others anxious for a lasting name
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pp.92-94
Poem Title:
On Mirth
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Just brought from school pert impudent and raw
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pp.94-97
Poem Title:
The Modern Fine Gentleman
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Oh thou who dwellst upon the bough
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pp.97-98
Poem Title:
The Rookery
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Endued with all that could adorn
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pp.98-100
Poem Title:
The Lover and the Friend
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Take the gift that I bestow
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p.100
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A translation of a little Sonnet wrote by Plato, in his younger time of life, and preserved by Diogenes Lacritius.
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O parent of each lovely muse
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pp.101-105
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Ode to Fancy
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Twas when the veil of night overspread the plain
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pp.105-107
Poem Title:
The Mouse and Oysters
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Twas midnight's hour and over the placid deep
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pp.107-110
Poem Title:
The Tempest
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Though time in haste for ever glides along
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pp.110-114
Poem Title:
On Time
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Thou whom to counsel is to praise
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pp.115-118
Poem Title:
The Female-Drum: or, The Origin of Cards. A Tale.
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Why start this case is yours or will be soon
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pp.118-119
Poem Title:
Wrote on the Tomb stone where is laid the Skull of a Man
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Blush not ye fair to own me but be wise
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p.119
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Wrote on another Tomb-stone where is laid the Skull of a Woman
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Tomorrow didst thou say
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pp.120-121
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To-morrow
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Well yesterday is passed and cannot be
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pp.121-122
Poem Title:
Yesterday
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In vain poor nymph to please our youthful sight
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pp.122-124
Poem Title:
An Elegy to an old Beauty
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Adieu my fair this hapless day
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pp.124-126
Poem Title:
The Parting
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The rolling year again brought on the day
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pp.126-128
Poem Title:
Fidelia.
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Poor relict of my once known yellow store
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pp.129-132
Poem Title:
The Last Guinea
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When midnight reigned when every grove was still
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pp.132-135
Poem Title:
Damon, or the Complaint
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The north east wind did briskly blow
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pp.135-137
Poem Title:
Bryan and Pereene: A West-Indian Poem
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Now early shepherds over the meadow pass
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pp.137-139
Poem Title:
Health: an Eclogue
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By the blue taper's trembling light
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pp.140-142
Poem Title:
A Night-Piece on Death
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Lovely lasting peace of mind
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pp.143-145
Poem Title:
A Hymn to Contentment
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Happy the man whose weighty purse contains
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pp.145-147
Poem Title:
Poverty
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Let others warble love's soft pleasing theme
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pp.148-149
Poem Title:
Solitude
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Like mortal men great Jove grown fond of change
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pp.150-153
Poem Title:
The Shoe-Boy
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When music heavenly maid was young
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pp.153-157
Poem Title:
The Passions. An Ode.
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When approached by the fair dewy fingers of spring
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pp.157-160
Poem Title:
Spring
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Where the light cannot pierce in a grove of tall trees
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pp.160-161
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Summer
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Though the seasons must alter ah yet let me find
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pp.161-164
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Autumn
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When the trees are all bare not a leaf to be seen
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pp.164-165
Poem Title:
Winter
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To thee my dear my soul's far better part
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p.166
Poem Title:
A Love-Letter, long after Marriage
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When shepherds flourished in Eliza's reign
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pp.167-169
Poem Title:
The Shepherd and Nightingale
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Let others travel with incessant pain
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pp.170-173
Poem Title:
The Wish
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Ye groves with venerable moss arrayed
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pp.173-180
Poem Title:
Laura, or the Complaint
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The solitary bird of night
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pp.180-183
Poem Title:
Ode to Wisdom
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Let coward guilt with pallid fear
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pp.183-184
Poem Title:
Written at Midnight in a Thunder Storm
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Seest thou yonder craggy rock
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pp.185-186
Poem Title:
The Complaint of a Lover
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Twas when the fields had shed their golden grain
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pp.187-189
Poem Title:
Colinetta
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What means the reeling earth O why
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pp.190-191
Poem Title:
The Crucifixion and Resurrection, an Ode.
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As cruel Tom dressed in his Sunday's coat
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pp.191-192
Poem Title:
The Drowning of a Kitten: or Cruelty Punished
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As Phillis sat beneath the spreading shade
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pp.192-194
Poem Title:
The fatal Moment: or, Phillis forsaken
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What is this fleeting life of man
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pp.194-195
Poem Title:
On the Vanity and Vicissitudes of human Life
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When western breezes fan the shore
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p.196
Poem Title:
The Shepherd's Life preferred
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The village cock with piercing notes
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pp.197-200
Poem Title:
A Morning Rhapsody
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With gallant pomp and beauteous pride
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pp.201-203
Poem Title:
Ode on a Storm
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Tube I love thee as my life
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p.204
Poem Title:
Chusing a Wife by a Pipe of Tobacco
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Why sighs each virgin for the nuptial bed
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pp.205-206
Poem Title:
Wholesome Advice to unmarried Ladies
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Yes to the sages be it told
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pp.206-208
Poem Title:
The Man of Pleasure
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Ah what avails the lengthening mead
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pp.208-210
Poem Title:
The Man of Sorrow
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Placed on the verge of youth my mind
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pp.210-213
Poem Title:
The Trials of Virtue
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Beneath an oak a rustic clown
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pp.213-214
Poem Title:
The Grumbling Clown
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How happy is the harmless country maid
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p.214
Poem Title:
The happy Country Maid
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Serene is the morn the lark leaves his nest
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pp.215-216
Poem Title:
The Violet
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Poor Jenny amorous young and gay
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p.216
Poem Title:
The Way to be Wise
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Some herbs there are whose deadly juices fill
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pp.217-221
Poem Title:
The Way of the World
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When lonely night composed the drowsy mind
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pp.221-223
Poem Title:
The Temple of Love. A Dream.
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How sacred and how innocent
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pp.224-227
Poem Title:
A Country-Life
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Gay Chloe's charms attract the eye
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pp.227-228
Poem Title:
Sacharissa and Chloe compared; or Virtue preferable to Beauty
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O under various sacred names adored
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pp.228-230
Poem Title:
The Hymn of Cleanthes
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Behold yon new born infant grieved
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pp.230-231
Poem Title:
The Ignorance of Man
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Shook from the evening's fragrant wings
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pp.232-233
Poem Title:
Retirement
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Far in the windings of a vale
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pp.234-236
Poem Title:
Edwin and Emma
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Why mourns my friend why weeps his downcast eye
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pp.237-240
Poem Title:
Elegy
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