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Specimens of the Later English Poets (2); With Preliminary Notices
Specimens of the Later English Poets With Preliminary Notices - 2 Author:Robert Southey Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1807 Original Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme Subjects: English poetry Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / Anthologies Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh No... more »tes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: WILLIAM BROOMS. Cheshire, 1745. tope's assistant in the translation of the Odyssey, for his share in which work he received five hundred pounds, and one hundred copies. A personal quarrel with him induced Pope to insert his name in the Dunciad, in this, as in other instances, prostituting the noble instrument of Virtue, Satire, to the gratification of private pique. In 1728, Broome took the degree of Doctor of Laws, at Cambridge; and when he died was Reftor of Sturston, and Vicar of Oakley Magna and Rye, in Suffolk. MELANCHOLY. AN ODE, Occasioned ly the Death of a beloved Daughter, ] A. dieu vain mirth, and noisy joys ! Ye gay desires, deluding toys ! Thou, thoughtful melancholy, deign To hide me in thy pensive train! 3 If by the fall of murmuring floods, Where awful shades embrown the woods, Or if where winds in caverns groan, Thou wanderest silent and alone; Come, blissful mourner, wisely sad, In sorrow's garb, in sable, clad, Henceforth thou Care my hours employ. Sorrow, be thou henceforth my joy ! By tombs where sullen spirits stalk, Familiar with the dead I walk ; While to my sighs and groans by turns, From graves the midnight echo mourni. Open thy marble jaws, O tomb, Though earth conceal me in thy womb ! And you, ye worms, this frame confound, Ye brother reptiles of the ground ! O life, fra...« less