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Title: Poetic Sketches

Author: Thomas Gent

Release Date: April 10, 2004 [EBook #11983]

Language: English

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POETIC SKETCHES;

A

COLLECTION

OF

MISCELLANEOUS POETRY.

BY

THOMAS GENT.

THE SECOND EDITION.

"In mercy spare me when I do my best,
To make as much waste paper as the rest."

1808.

TO

THE RIGHT HONORABLE

GEORGE CANNING, M.P.

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE FOREIGN
DEPARTMENT,

and

ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONORABLE
PRIVY COUNCIL;

NOT LESS DISTINGUISHED FOR HIS ATTAINMENTS AS

A SCHOLAR,

THAN FOR HIS TALENTS AS

A STATESMAN

THESE POETIC SKETCHES

ARE INSCRIBED,

WITH MUCH SINCERITY AND ESTEEM,

BY HIS FAITHFUL AND DEVOTED

HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS

The pieces marked thus (*) have been added since the
first edition.

_To the Reviewers

* On the Death of Lord Nelson

SONNET--Morning

To ----. --An Impromtu

SONNET--Night

Henry and Eliza

* SONNET--On the Death of Mrs. Charlotte Smith

To a Fly on the Bosom of Chloe, while sleeping

SONNET

Lines, written on the sixth of September

SONNET--To Faith

Stanzas

SONNET--To Hope

Thoughts on Peace

SONNET--To Charity

Prologue to Public Readings

SONNET--The Beggar

To ----. --Come, Jenny, let me sip the dew

* The Runaway

* Song--The Blue-eyed Maid

Bertram and Anna

Invocation to Sleep

SONNET--To Music

0! Nymph with cheeks of roseate hue

On the Death of General Washington

Song--Oh! never will I leave my love

* Burlesque SONNET--To a Bee

Mary

SONNET--To Lydia, on her Birth-Day

Stanzas, written Impromtu on the late Peace

SONNET--To ---- on her Recovery from Illness

* A Fragment

Lines, to the Memory of a Lady

* The Recall of the Hero

Lines, written on seeing the Children of the Naval Asylum

* Rosa's Grave

Lines, written in Hornsey Wood

SONNET--To ----

The Complaint

SONNET