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[BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME,
AGED 23, A LIEUTENANT IN THE ARMY, THEN WITH HIS REGIMENT IN CORSICA, 1793.
1 O THOU so dear! whose wand'ring star
2 Leaves sad maternal love to mourn,
3 Now chain'd to fierce Bellona's car,
4 Say, does no thought of home return?
5 Of me, beneath a sky so dark and drear,
6 Where fortune drives the storm, and sorrow clouds the year?
7 But rising from the stroke of fate,
8 I seize the long neglected lyre;
9 Warm at my heart new hopes dilate,
10 For thee new wishes they inspire;
11 The sullen weeds of woe I cast away,
12 And sweep the sounding chords to hail thy natal day.
13 Thy boyish years to manhood brought,
14 Bless'd be the harvest's happy time!
15 And O, may firm collected thought
16 With judgment mark thy ripen'd prime!
17 May fair desert, with smiling fortune, crown
18 Thy long succeeding years with honour and renown.
19 If with obscurity to dwell
20 Be mine in unfrequented bow'rs,
21 While fancy tunes her airy shell,
22 While friendship gilds the quiet hours,
23 Content may well her peaceful calm impart,
24 And soft affections still twine round my throbbing heart.
25 While thou, dear object of my care,
26 Must still the busy world explore,
27 May thou its smiles propitious share,
28 Till the gay pageant charms no more;
29 Then when existence verges to its close,
30 In friendship, filial love, and tranquil hope repose.
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Title (in Source Edition): [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME, AGED 23, A LIEUTENANT IN THE ARMY, THEN WITH HIS REGIMENT IN CORSICA, 1793.
Author: Anne Hunter (née Home)
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Hunter, Anne Home (Mrs. John), 1742-1821. Poems, by Mrs. John Hunter. London: Printed for T. Payne, Mews Gate, by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 1802, pp. 29-30. (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [280 e.4058].)
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- A BALLAD OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ()
- [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO MY SON AT SCHOOL, AGED 13, JUNE 11. ()
- [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME, AGED 15, AT CAMBRIDGE. ()
- [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME, AGED 26, A CAPTAIN OF INFANTRY IN PORTUGAL, 1798. ()
- CARISBROOK CASTLE, A POEM, WITH NOTES. ()
- THE DEATH SONG, WRITTEN FOR, AND ADAPTED TO, AN ORIGINAL INDIAN AIR. ()
- THE DIRGE OF AMORET. ()
- ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM SEWARD, ESQ. WHO DIED APRIL 24, 1799. ()
- ELEGY. ()
- EPITAPH FOR MY FATHER. ()
- FAIRY REVELS, A SONG. ()
- THE FAREWELL, A SONG. ()
- THE GENIUS OF THE MOUNTAINS OF BALAGATA, IN THE EAST INDIES, BEWAILS THE MISERIES BOUGHT UPON HIS COUNTRY. ()
- LA DOUCE CHIMERE. ()
- THE LAMENTATION OF MARY STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTS, ADAPTED TO A VERY ANCIENT SCOTTISH AIR, SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN HER OWN COMPOSITION. ()
- LAURA TO PETRARCH. ()
- LAURA. ()
- LELIA; OR, THE MANIAC'S SONG. ()
- MAY DAY. ()
- A MERMAID'S SONG. ()
- NOVEMBER, 1784. ()
- ODE TO CONDUIT VALE, BLACKHEATH. ()
- ODE TO THE OLD YEAR, 1787. ()
- REMEMBRANCE, A SONG. ()
- THE ROUNDELAY. ()
- THE SONG AT MARIA'S GRAVE. IN TWO PARTS. ()
- THE SONG OF THE WANDERING LADY, FOUNDED ON A TRUE STORY. ()
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- SONNET, AFTER THE DEATH OF LAURA. ()
- THE SPIRIT'S SONG. ()
- TIME. ()
- TO A FRIEND ON NEW YEAR'S DAY. ()
- TO JAMES BARRY, ESQ. ON THE DESIGN OF HIS SERIES OF PICTURES PAINTED FOR THE SOCIETY INSTITUTED FOR THE PROMOTING ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. ()
- TO Mrs. DELAINY, UPON THE MARKS OF ROYAL BOUNTY WHICH SHE RECEIVED AT A VERY ADVANCED AGE, AFTER THE DEATH OF HER FRIEND THE DUCHESS OF PORTLAND, IN 1786. ()
- TO MY DAUGHTER, ON BEING SEPARATED FROM HER ON HER MARRIAGE ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF A LOVELY INFANT, WRITTEN SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH. ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. ()
- TO THE NIGHTINGALE. ()
- A VOW TO FORTUNE. ()
- WILLIAM AND NANCY, A BALLAD. ()
- WINTER, A SONNET. ()