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CONTENTS
OF
THE THIRD VOLUME.
ORIGINAL POETRY.
THE
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HE Physician; a Poem on the Importance of the Me- dical Character
Prayer to Health: written while several of the Author's
Friends were suffering from Sickness ..
The Poet's Cottage. To Dr. Mavor, who zealously en-
forced the Expediency of raising a Fund, to secure the
Comforts of the Author for the Decline of Life ......
Verses to Mr. John Mavor, of Wadham College, Oxford;
with a Present of some Vidonia
To the same, with a Regulation Sash, on his entering the
Loyal Woodstock Volunteers, as Lieutenant ....
To Mr. Henry Mavor, on the Author's witnessing the
Signature of his Indentures, November 19, 1803
To Mr. George Mavor...
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36
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Verses written after seeing the Pictures in the Earl of War-
wick's Collection, while on a Visit at the Castle...... 49
To a Lady, who converted a Straw Cottage into a Card
Box
The Wounded Mind. To a Friend
The Counsels of Affection. To the Author's Grandson,
Lines presented to the same, with the "British Nepos"
A Poetical Epistle to Dr. Bree, of Birmingham, from the
Author at Bath; containing a Parallel between those
Towns ...
The Philosopher's Stone. To Eliza Bree
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To
To the same, with a Needle-Case, sent from Bath.....
Questions to Cupid, respecting Henry Horribow
To a beausiful Spaniel, who came and passed a social Hour
with the Author, whom he had never seen but once
before
Mum's Cot: written while on a Visit to Mr. and Mrs.
Brimyard, at Woodlands, in the New Forest, on the
Author's beginning to recover from a severe Indisposition 97
Verses, occasioned by the liberal Offer of a Gentleman
after reading "The Poet's Cottage".
To Mrs. Roberson, of Oxford ...
104
111
To Mrs. Billington: written immediately after hearing
her sing at Rauzzini's Concert, April 4, 1804........ 113
To Miss Sharp, on the same Occasion....
To a Friend, on receiving a Pair of Spectacles
Address to a spacious Holly-Tree belonging to Mrs. In-
gram, at Woolford House, Warwickshire
Extempore, on hearing Monsieur Von Esche's Marche
Religieuse....
Song, sung by Nine Sisters about to separate
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118
ibid.
The Two Sophias; or, The Innocent Elopers
119
On accidentally seeing a Father take Leave of an only
Son. To Mr. Whateley..
120
Written in the empty House of a Friend, on the Family
quitting Town ....
122
Ivy Cottage. Written in the Depth of Winter, while on
a Visit to Mr. and Mrs. Mac George
123
To Mr. and Mrs. Drought
124
Apology to a Friend, for addressing him some time after a
melancholy Event....
125
Invocation to Fortune. Presented to a young Lady, with
126
a Share in a Lottery-Ticket..
To *******, Esq. waiting the Event of a Chancery Suit 128
To a Friend, with a Sprig of Balm. Written in Winter 134
To Lady Mostyn, on her proposed Journey to Clifton.... 134
Sophia's
Sophia's Address to Sorrow
The Poet's Petition. To an Infant.
..
The Tribute: written March 25, 1804, at the Tomb of
Lady Caldwell, who was buried at Weston, near Bath,
March 18, 1796 ...
135
136
.. 138
An Ode, for the Centenary of the Charity-School of St.
John, Wapping....
140
The Modern Hercules. To John Vancouver, Esq., on
his presenting the Author with a Golden Pen.. ... 143
To Mrs. Vancouver....
152.
To Miss Vancouver, on receiving from her a Bouquet of
Winter Flowers
155
To a Lady, who asked the Author what she should do to
deserve the Character of an Industrious Woman ... 156
Stanzas to the New Moon
158
Stanzas, on favourable Weather happening after the Au-
thor's first Address to the New Moon....
To a Friend in Affliction, with " The Pleasures of Hope" 160
To Mr. and Mrs. Fonblanque; on the Death of one of
their Children
159
161
The Elliston; or, Bath Questions
162
Extempore Lines, presented on the Marriage of a Friend:
including the Author's Apology for appearing in Black 164
To an old Married Couple; on the Author's being present
at their Meeting after a short Separation.
166
To the Memory of *******
Extempore. To a Lady in feeble Health
167
168
A Question, by a Friend, in Reply to "The Fate of the
Bards"
171
To Mrs. Potter, on casting the Author's Nativity ...... 172
To Georgiana Byron, on her Birth-day, Feb. 9, 1799...
173
To Sophia, on her Birth-day
.. 176
To a Lady, with Cowper's Poems elegantly bound...... 177
Extempore. To Mrs. Shepheard, in payment of a Sheet
of Paper
177
Impromptu, on Mr. Phillips's lending his Town-house to
the Author
178
Address to the Lyre. Written in the Vale of Vaucluse 179
Lines written at a Friend's Villa after a long Absence.... 180
Songs.-The Captive
The Weavers.
181
182
Life
183
The Fisherman's Song
184
The Fishermen's Finale; a Catch, for a Groupe
of Characters
185
On being present at the Naming of a beautiful Child.... 187
Presented to the Children of George Blackman, Esq., with
Pity's Gift," a Selection for younger Minds ...... ibid.
Written at the Hermitage, near Bath, late in the Posses-
sion of Philip Thicknesse, Esq., now belonging to Mr.
Coward of that City...
The Present returned. To P. Thicknesse, Esq..
188
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Lines, written at a Friend's near the celebrated Nursery-
Gardens, in the King's Road, Chelsea ....
200
To Fanny Rundle....
201
A Soliloquy, pencilled while on an Excursion to Hampton
Court, June 14, 1804 ...
202
Flora Jealous. To Dr. Thornton, on receiving a Present
of some beautifully painted Plants from his Temple of
Flora, to decorate "The Poet's Cottage"
208
ORIGINAL LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
POEMS OF H. J. PYE, ESQ.
Ode for the Queen's Birth-day, May 19, 1796 ....
225
Ode to the Right Hon. Henry Addington, Speaker of the
House of Commons, on the Death of his Father...... 227
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