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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS-Continued.
On the same
The Love of the World Reproved
On the Death of Mrs (afterwards Lady) Throckmorton's
Bullfinch
The Rose
The Doves
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283
A Fable
Ode to Apollo on an Inkglass almost dried in the Sun 286
A Comparison
Another Comparison
The Poet's New Year's Gift to Mrs (afterwards Lady)
Throckmorton
Pairing Time Anticipated. A Fable
The Dog and the Water Lily. No Fable
The Winter Nosegay
The Poet, the Oyster, and Sensitive Plant
The Shrubbery
Mutual Forbearance necessary to the Happiness of the
An Epistle to an Afflicted Protestant Lady in France
To the Rev. W. Cawthorne Unwin
To the Rev. Mr Newton. An Invitation into the
Catharina: the Second Part. On her Marriage to
On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture out of Norfolk
Friendship
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316
On a Mischievous Bull, which the Owner of him
Sold at the Author's instance
321
Annus Memorabilis, 1789-written in Commemoration
of His Majesty's Happy Recovery
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322
A Hymn for the use of the Sunday-school at Olney 323
Stanzas subjoined to the Yearly Bill of Mortality of
the Parish of All-Saints, Northampton, Anno Domini
1787
On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1788
On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1789
On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1790
On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1792
On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1793
On a Goldfinch Starved to Death in his Cage
The Pine-apple and the Bee
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325
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330
Verses Written at Bath, on Finding the Heel of a Shoe
An Ode, on Reading Richardson's History of Sir
Charles Grandison
An Epistle to Robert Lloyd, Esq.
A Tale, founded on a Fact, which happened in January
1779
To the Rev. Mr Newton, on his Return from Ramsgate 335
Love Abused
A Poetical Epistle to Lady Austen
Verses selected from an occasional Poem entitled Vale-
diction
Epitaph on Dr Johnson
To Miss C- on her Birthday
Gratitude
Lines composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper,
Esq.
On the Queen's Visit to London, 17th March 1789
The Cock-fighter's Garland
To Warren Hastings, Esq.
To Mrs Throckmorton, on her Beautiful Transcript of
Horace's Ode, "Ad Librum Suum"
To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut
Inscription for a Stone erected at the Sowing of a
Grove of Oaks at Chillington, the Seat of T. Giffard,
Esq., 1790
Another Inscription for a Stone Erected on a Similar
Occasion at the same place in the following year
To Mrs King, on her kind Present to the Author, a
Patchwork Counterpane of her own Making
In Memory of the late John Thornton, Esq.
348
349
The Four Ages. (A brief fragment of an extensive pro-
New Year's Day
Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.
To the Nightingale, which the Author heard Sing on
Lines Written in an Album of Miss Patty More's,
Sister of Hannah More
Epigram printed in the Northampton Mercury
To Dr Austin, of Cecil Street, London
Epitaph on Fop, a Dog belonging to Lady Throck-
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359
Epitaph on Mr Chester, of Chicheley
To my Cousin, Anne Bodham, on Receiving from her
a Network Purse made by herself
Inscription for a Hermitage in the Author's Garden
To Mrs Unwin.
361
To John Johnston, Esq., on his Presenting me with
an Antique Bust of Homer
To a Young Friend, on his Arriving at Cambridge wet,
On a Spaniel, called Beau, Killing a Young Bird
To the Spanish Admiral Count Gravina, on his Trans-
lating the Author's Song on a Rose into Italian
Verse.
364
To the Rev. William Bull
Epitaph on Mrs M. Higgins, of Weston
Sonnet to a Young Lady on her Birthday
On a Mistake in his Translation of Homer
On the Benefit received by His Majesty from Sea-
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373
375
From a Letter to the Rev. Mr Newton, late Rector of
On a Plant of Virgin's Bower, designed to cover a
Garden Seat
381
On Receiving Heyne's Virgil from Mr Hayley
Lines on a Sleeping Infant
Lines addressed to Miss Theodora Jane Cowper
To the same
Lines
Inscription for a Moss-house in the Shrubbery at
Weston
Lines on the Death of Sir William Russel
Extract from a Sunday-school Hymn
Verses printed by himself, on a Flood at Olney
On the Receipt of a Hamper
On the Ice Islands seen floating in the German Ocean 387
Montes Glaciales, in Oceano Germanico Natantes
Monumental Inscription to William Northcot
Translation
In Seditionem Horrendam, corruptelis Gallicis, ut
fertur, Londini nuper exortam
Motto on a Clock
A Simile Latinized
Verses to the Memory of Dr Lloyd
Populetum
Lilium atque Rosa
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392
In Submersionem Navigii, cui Georgius Regale nomen
Simile in Paradise Lost
Translation of Dryden's Epigram on Milton
Translation of Prior's Chloe and Euphelia
Translation from the Fables of Gay :-
Lepus Multis Amicus
Avarus et Plutus
Papilio et Limax
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF MADAME DE LA
MOTHE GUION:-
The Nativity
God neither Known nor Loved by the World
The Swallow
A Figurative Description of the Procedure of Divine
Love in bringing a Soul to the point of Self-renuncia-
tion and Absolute Acquiescence