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Lewesdon Hill, with other poems

Lewesdon Hill, with other poems

by William Crowe

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Author
William Crowe
Original Publication
United Kingdom: John Murray, 1827
Credits
Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
Subject
English poetry -- 19th century
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 68824
Release Date
August 23, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.LEWESDON HILL.
  2. 2.ADVERTISEMENT.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.LEWESDON HILL.
  5. 5.NOTES. — Note 1, page 4, line 10. — Note 2, p. 10, line 7. — Note 3, page 16, line 4. — Note 4, page 16, line 10. — Note 5, page 18, line 6. — Note 6, page 22, line 1. — Note 7, page 23, lines 5 and 6. — Note 8, page 23, line 10. — Note 9, page 24, line 2. — Note 10, page 25, line 3. — Note 11, page 27, line 11. — Note 12, page 33, line 2. — Note 13, page 34, line 1. — Note 14, page 34, line 11.
  6. 6.POEMS.
  7. 7.INSCRIBED BENEATH THE PICTURE OF AN ASS.
  8. 8.ODE TO THE LYRIC MUSE. SPOKEN IN THE THEATRE AT THE INSTALLATION OF LORD NORTH, CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
  9. 9.VERSES INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SPOKEN IN THE THEATRE TO THE DUKE OF PORTLAND, AT HIS INSTALLATION AS CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, IN THE YEAR 1793.
  10. 10.ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK.
  11. 11.ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF DR. W. HAYES, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
  12. 12.THE WORLD [16] . INTENDED AS AN APOLOGY FOR NOT WRITING. BY A LADY.
  13. 13.THE BRITISH THEATRE. WRITTEN IN 1775.
  14. 14.ON TWO PUBLICATIONS, ENTITLED EDITIONS OF TWO OF OUR POETS.
  15. 15.THE SPLEEN.
  16. 16.LINES WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL IN A LADY’S ALMANAC.
  17. 17.TO A YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN, WITH THOMSON’S SEASONS, DOUBLED DOWN AT THE STORY OF PALEMON AND LAVINIA.
  18. 18.SONNET.
  19. 19.SONNET TO PETRARCH.
  20. 20.TO A LADY, WHO DESIRED SOME SPECIMENS OF THE AUTHOR’S POETRY.
  21. 21.EPITAPH ON A CHILD WHO DIED OF A SCARLET FEVER IN THE FIFTEENTH MONTH OF HIS AGE. 1802.
  22. 22.EPITAPH ON SIR CHARLES TURNER, BART. IN THE FAMILY MAUSOLEUM AT KIRK LEATHAM, YORKSHIRE.
  23. 23.LINES WRITTEN AT THE TOMB OF WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM, IN WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL.
  24. 24.TRANSLATION OF A GREEK INSCRIPTION UPON A FOUNTAIN [21] .
  25. 25.FROM LUCRETIUS.
  26. 26.FROM LUCRETIUS.
  27. 27.FROM LUCRETIUS.
  28. 28.PSALM LXXII. ABRIDGED, AND ADAPTED [22] TO A PARTICULAR TUNE.
  29. 29.MIDNIGHT DEVOTION. WRITTEN IN THE GREAT STORM, 1822.
  30. 30.SILBURY HILL [23] .
  31. 31.TO THE DAISY.
  32. 32.FRAGMENT.
  33. 33.FROM PURCHASE’S PILGRIMAGE, VERSIFIED AND DESIGNED AS A MOTTO TO “VOYAGES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A N. W. PASSAGE.”
  34. 34.FRAGMENT.
  35. 35.THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE.
  36. 36.SONNET.
  37. 37.SONG.
  38. 38.SONG.
  39. 39.SONG.
  40. 40.SONG. TO A LADY GOING TO HER FAMILY IN IRELAND.
  41. 41.TO THE SUN.
  42. 42.SONG.
  43. 43.TO A LADY, FORTUNE-TELLING WITH CARDS.
  44. 44.EPIGRAM.
  45. 45.ON TWO ENGLISH POETS, WHO FLOURISHED IN THE FORMER HALF OF THE LAST CENTURY, AND PUBLISHED COMPLIMENTARY VERSES ON EACH OTHER.
  46. 46.VERSES TO THE HONOUR OF THE LONDON PASTRYCOOK, WHO MARKED “NO POPERY” ON HIS PIES, &C.
  47. 47.ON THE FUNERAL OF ⸺, IN A HEARSE AND SIX, FOLLOWED BY A MOURNING COACH AND FOUR.
  48. 48.PARODY ON DRYDEN’S “THREE POETS,” &c.
  49. 49.EPIGRAM.
  50. 50.AN EXPOSTULATORY SUPPLICATION TO DEATH, AFTER THE DECEASE OF DR. BURNEY.
  51. 51.ON THE DECEASE OF HORNE TOOKE.
  52. 52.INSCRIPTION FOR THE GRANITE SARCOPHAGUS BROUGHT FROM ALEXANDRIA TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
  53. 53.INSCRIPTION FOR A STATUE OF FIELD-MARSHAL SUWOROW.
  54. 54.ON FIELD-MARSHAL SUWOROW. A DIALOGUE.
  55. 55.ON F. W. THE KING OF PRUSSIA’S INEFFECTUAL ATTEMPT ON WARSAW.
  56. 56.POLITICAL ADVICE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH CONVENTION. A DIALOGUE.
  57. 57.WRITTEN WHEN BUONAPARTE WAS ALTERING THE GOVERNMENTS OF GERMANY.
  58. 58.SUGGESTED BY READING DRYDEN’S BRITANNIA REDIVIVA, A Poem on the Prince, born on the 10th of June, 1688.
  59. 59.SUCCESSION.
  60. 60.EPIGRAM.
  61. 61.ON THE INCREASE OF HUMAN LIFE.
  62. 62.ODE TO THE KING OF FRANCE. 1823.
  63. 63.VERSES SPOKEN IN THE THEATRE, OXFORD, AT THE INSTALLATION OF THE CHANCELLOR, LORD GRENVILLE, JULY 10, 1810, BY HENRY CROWE, A COMMONER OF WADHAM COLLEGE.
  64. 64.AD MUSAS.
  65. 65.Untitled
  66. 66.JEPTHÆ VOTUM.
  67. 67.PALMYRA.
  68. 68.AD HYACINTHUM. 1791.
  69. 69.ROMULUS. SCRIPTUS 1803.
  70. 70.HELENA INSULA.
  71. 71.ON CAPT. SIR M. MURRAY, WOUNDED AT THE WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
  72. 72.AMNESTIA INFIDA.
  73. 73.PSALM CXIV.
  74. 74.PSALM CXXXIII.
  75. 75.PSALM CXXXVII.
  76. 76.IN OBITUM SENIS ACADEMICI, THOMÆ PRYOR, ARMIGERI.
  77. 77.IN OBITUM J. N. OXONIENSIS, 1783.
  78. 78.Untitled
  79. 79.ΕΙΣ ΚΟΣΣΥΦΟΝ.
  80. 80.INSCRIPTIO IN HORTO AUCTORIS APUD ALTON IN COM. WILT.
  81. 81.EPICEDIUM.
  82. 82.DE SEIPSO MANDATUM AUCTORIS.

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