Date: w. c. 1751, 1775
"Each fabling poet sure alike mistakes / The gentle power that reigns o'er tender hearts."
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Date: w. c. 1751, 1775
"And see, with these is holy Friendship found, / With chrystal bosom open to the sight; / Her gentle hand fhall close the recent wound, / And fill the vacant heart with calm delight."
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Date: w. c. 1749, 1775
"A solemn stillness creeps upon my soul, / And all its pow'rs in deep attention die."
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Date: 1775
"BLEST Bard! to whom the Muses, grateful, gave / That pipe which erft their deareft Spenser won, / As once they found thee, pensive and alone, / Strewing sweet flow'rs upon his hallow'd grave; / Then bad thy fancy glow with sacred fire, / And softest airs thy rural verse inspire."
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Date: 1775
"For woes on woes that anxious wretch pursue, / And on his soul fantastic terrors croud, / Who dares with eye distrustful stretch his view / Where Fate has spread her providential cloud."
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Date: 1775
"With thee among the haunted groves / The lovely sorc'ress Fancy roves, / O let me find her here!"
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Date: 1775
"Then Peace shall heal this wounded breast, / That pants to see another blest, / From selfish passion pure."
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Date: 1775
"How like a wanton lamb that careless play'd, / The shepherd and the fold forgotten quite, / My vagrant soul, in search of vain delight, / Many long years from her true Shepherd stray'd!"
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Date: 1776
" A father, husband, brother sorrowing weep, / Whose hearts engraven thy fair virtues keep."
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Date: 1775, 1776
"'Let Meekness as a dove / 'Brood in man's heart the sacred acts of Love."
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