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Title: Poems

Author: Samuel Rogers

Release Date: October 3, 2004 [EBook #13586]

Language: English

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POEMS BY SAMUEL ROGERS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES,
IN THE STRAND, BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT COURT, FLEET, STREET.

1814.

Oh could my Mind, unfolded in my page,
Enlighten climes and mould a future age;
There as it glow'd, with noblest frenzy fraught,
Dispense the treasures of exalted thought;
To Virtue wake the pulses of the heart,
And bid the tear of emulation start!
Oh could it still, thro' each succeeding year,
My life, my manners, and my name endear;
And, when the poet sleeps in silent dust,
Still hold communion with the wise and just!--
Yet should this Verse, my leisure's best resource,
When thro' the world it steals its secret course,
Revive but once a generous wish supprest,
Chase but a sigh, or charm a care to rest;
In one good deed a fleeting hour employ,
Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy;
Blest were my lines, tho' limited their sphere,
Tho' short their date, as his who trac'd them here.

CONTENTS.

The Pleasures of Memory
Epistle to a Friend
Ode to Superstition
Written to be spoken in a Theatre
To----
The Sailor
To an old Oak
From Euripides
To Two Sisters
Written at Midnight
On a Tear
To a Voice that had been lost
From a Greek Epigram.
To the Torso
To-----
Written in a Sick Chamber
To a Friend on his Marriage
The Alps at Day-break
Imitation of an Italian Sonnet
On----asleep.
To the youngest Daughter of Lady **
Epitaph on a Robin Red-breast
A Wish
An Italian Song
To the Gnat
An Inscription in the Crimea
Captivity
A Character
Written in the Highlands of Scotland
A Farewell
To the Butterfly
Written in Westminster Abbey
The Voyage of Columbus

THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY

IN TWO PARTS

Hoc est
Vivere bis, vita posse priore frui. MART.

THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY
PART I

Dolce sentier.......
Colle, che mi piacesti,....
Ov' ancor per usanza Amor mi mena;
Ben riconosco in voi l'usate forme,
Non, lasso,