Poems on Several Occasions. By Maria Loganauthor, 1793 - 64 pages |
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Aberford Acklam Ainderby Quernhow Airey airy Bayley beam Bedale bestow Bischoff Boynton Broadley brow cheek cheer Chute Lodge delight ditto Bedingfield ditto Buck ditto Cappe ditto Dawson ditto Gibson ditto Humble ditto Lee ditto Lucas ditto Morritt ditto Place ditto S Strickland ditto Staveley ditto Stoddart E'en Edward Y Elswick Esholt Esholt-Hall Etton ev'ry eyes fair Fancy's flow'r fond FRIEND gale Gilling glow Goodricke grace grief grove Health heart Heav'n hope hour John joys Knowsley Lady Leeds Richardson Leeds Walker London lovely M. D. ditto maid Manchester MARIA LOGAN Masham Mauritius McLeod McLeod Milnes Miſs Muse Newcastle Northallerton o'er Pain pray'r Prest radiant Richmond Ridsdale Saltmarsh sicknefs sigh Skipton smile smiling train sooth South Dalton South Shields sportive Staveley tear thee thine Thirsk thou thro thy pow'r Trafford train UNINTERRUPTED SICKNESS Vasey verdant VERSES Wakefield Welton William Wilson Winn woes York
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Page 33 - Health, verdure, beauty, fragrance, all are fled: Sulphureous clouds deform the rising day, Nor own the pow'r of Sol's meridian ray; While sickly damps, from Aire's polluted stream, Quench the pure radiance of his parting beam. These are thy triumphs, Commerce! — these thy spoils! Yet sordid mortals glory in their toils, Spurn the pure joys which simple Nature yields, Her breezy hills, dark groves, and verdant fields, With cold indiff'rence, view her blooming charms, 20 And give youth, ease, and...
Page 5 - Let others boast the golden spoil, Which Indian climes afford; And still with unavailing toil, Increase the shining hoard: — Still let Golconda's dazzling pride On Beauty's forehead glow, And round the fair, on ev'ry side, Sabean odours flow: — Be mine the balm, whose sov'reign pow'r Can still the throb of Pain; 10 The produce of the scentless flow'r, That strews Hindostan's plain.* No gaudy hue its form displays, To catch the roving eye; 3. Signed "WG" and dated "Leeds, May 1793,
Page 8 - And sportive Fancy's smiling train, Would fly Disease's shade — Did not thy magic pow'r supply, A mild, tho' transient ray; As meteors in a northern sky, Shed artificial day. And shall my humble Muse alone Thy peerless worth declare! A Muse to all the world unknown, Whose songs are lost in air. 60 O! may the bard, whose tuneful strain Resounds thro...
Page 6 - ... latent ills the frame pervade, And mock the healing art; Thy friendly balm shall lend its aid, And transient ease impart; Shall charm the restless hour of day, And cheer the midnight gloom; Shall blunt each thorn, which strews the way That leads us to the tomb. And oft, when Reason vainly tries 30 To calm the troubled breast, Thy pow'r can seal our streaming eyes, And bid our sorrows rest. What tho...
Page 9 - This was written just before the publication of "The Loves of the Plants"; a work which had been long impatiently expected by every one who had been so fortunate as to see any specimen of the Author's poetical abilities.
Page 6 - May pafs regardlefs by. But shall the Muse with cold disdain, Its simple charms behold ! Shall she devote the tuneful strain To incense, gems, or gold ! When latent ills the frame pervade, And mock the healing art; Thy friendly balm shall lend its aid, And transient ease impart; Shall charm the...
Page 8 - At her command gay scenes arise To charm my raptur'd sight, While Memory's faithful hand supplies Past objects of delight. Yet Memory's soothing charms were vain, Without thy friendly aid ; And sportive Fancy's smiling train, Would fly Disease's shade Did not thy magic pow'r supply, A mild, tho' transient ray; As meteors in a northern sky, Shed artificial day.
Page 15 - Nature up to Nature's GOD. And many a lefson thy pale lips have taught, Which e'en Philosophy had preach'd in vain ; With many a truth, by Science vainly sought, Where Health exulting leads her jocund train. For these my heart its grateful tribute pays, And owns with joy their salutary pow'r ; For these the Muse delights to sing thy...
Page 33 - d refreshing gales; When Flora sported in its fragrant bow'rs, And strew'd with lib'ral hand her sweetest flow'rs! Now sable vapours, pregnant with disease, Clog the light pinions of the southern breeze; Each verdant plant assumes a dusky hue, And sooty atoms taint the morning dew. No more the lily rears her spotless head...