Category: Poetry
Some of the Pieces in this volume have been separately published, at different times; the indulgence, I may say favour, with which they were individually received, has encouraged me to collect and re-publish them. I have added many others, which are now first printed. I shall...
Some of the Pieces in this volume have been separately published, at different times; the indulgence, I may say favour, with which they were individually received, has encourage...
4. Chapter 4Oh! ye, who pine, in London smoke immured, With spirits wearied, and with pains uncured, With all the catalogue of city evils, Colds, asthmas, rheumatism, coughs, blue devils! W...
2. Chapter 2Welcome, my pretty Neddy--welcome too Thy merry Rider with his apron blue; And thou, poor Dog, most patient thing of all, Begging for morsels that may never fall! Oh! 'tis a fai...
5. Chapter 5If then, untaught to bend at Heaven's high will, The desp'rate mortal dares the dread unknown, To future fate appeals from present ill, And stands, uncall'd, before th' Eternal...
3. Chapter 3I must not again go to press, without acknowledging how much I am indebted to a kind friend, who happened to be in Norfolk at the time I was printing the first Edition; with who...
6. Chapter 6Till Pity's self expire, a Nation's sighs, Spontaneous incense! o'er thy tomb shall rise: And, 'midst the dark vicissitudes that wait Earth's balanced empires in the scales of F...