Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry / A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries
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Chapters (37)
- INTRODUCTION.
- CONTENTS.
- I. BEAUTIES FORT
- BEAUTIES FORT.
- MY BONNY LASS! THINE EYE.
- ANTHONY MUNDAY'S POEM ON THE CAPTIVITY OF JOHN FOX.
- CARE FOR THY SOULE.
- MEGLIORA SPERO.
- A LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH TO THE KING.
- THE KING'S ANSWER.
- AN EPITAPH ON DUNDEE.
- THE ROBBER ROBB'D.
- I.
- AH! THE SHEPHERD'S MOURNFUL FATE!
- SOME VERSES TO A FRIEND WHO TWICE VENTURED ON MARRIAGE.
- A PANYGYRICK UPON OATES.
- THE MIRACLE.
- I.
- THE PATRIOTS.
- I.
- JUSTICE IN MASQUERADE; OR, SCROGGS UPON SCROGGS.
- THE BRAWNY BISHOP'S COMPLAINT.
- I.
- THE POOR BLIND BOY.
- THE INISKILLING REGIMENT.
- I.
- A BALLAD ON THE FLEET.
- I.
- VIII.
- ON SEEING MR. FOX AND MR. HASTINGS AT CHELTENHAM.
- AN IMITATION OF HORACE
- EPITAPH ON DR. JOHNSON.
- VERSES UPON THE ROAD. FACIT INDIGNATIO.
- SATYR ON THE SCOTS.
- THE MARSEILLAISE.
- A DIRGE.
- FINIS.
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