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OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF GEORGE KENDAL,
Who was drowned upon his birth-day, and the day he had been bound apprentice.
"Ah! only shewn to check our fond pursuits,
"And teach our humbled hopes that life is vain! "
1 SWEET youth farewell! the day that gave thee birth,
2 Again unites thee to thy parent earth;
3 That day, to busy cares devoted thee,
4 That day, was crown'd with rest and liberty.
5 Soft be the slumbers of thy lowly bed,
6 And lightly lie the turf upon thy head;
7 While from thy cold remains with mournful eye,
8 The muse collects the sweets which shall not die,
[Page 105]9 Pensive and sad she leaves her joyless bowers,
10 To strew thy early tomb with choicest flowers.
11 Tho' from thy cheek death pluck'd the blushing rose,
12 Thy rising virtues still its sweets disclose:
13 And oft as Flora paints the purple year,
14 Shall recollection trace thy emblem there.
15 When hopeful youth, or worth like thine shall fall,
16 The thoughts of thee for added tears shall call.
17 Our kindest wishes were in error sown,
18 Infinite wisdom gave thee joys unknown.
19 Fain would our languid spirits wing their way,
20 To hail thee in the realms of radiant day.
21 This warning lesson read ye gay and young,
22 Who thoughtless flutter in life's giddy throng.
23 Of health, of youth possest, still frail your breath,
24 For many are the hidden roads to death.
25 Thus o'er the dust we love we fondly mourn,
26 And wait the voice that bids our dust return.
27 Loosen'd from earth, would reach yon upper sky,
28 By "faith, man's early immortality."
29 Thro' these afflictions push with vigour on,
30 Shoot the dark gulph, and seize a heavenly crown.
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Title (in Source Edition): OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF GEORGE KENDAL, Who was drowned upon his birth-day, and the day he had been bound apprentice.
Author: Eliza Day
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elegy
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Daye, Eliza, b. ca. 1734. Poems, on Various Subjects. Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, 1798, pp. [104]-105. [2],x,[4],258p.; 8° (ESTC T132359) (Page images digitized by University of California Libraries.)
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- AN EVENING HYMN, IN SICKNESS. ()
- EVENING HYMN. ()
- EXTEMPORE LINES, To a Young Lady with an Anemone. ()
- THE FAMILY OF ADVERSITY. ()
- FOR EASTER SUNDAY. ()
- FOR SUNDAY. ()
- THE GOODNESS OF GOD. ()
- HIS IMMENSITY. ()
- A HYMN FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY. ()
- HYMN FOR SUNDAY EVENING. ()
- HYMN FOR SUNDAY. ()
- A HYMN IN SICKNESS. ()
- HYMN Sung at a Charity Sermon, in Lancaster, on the 22d of January, 1797, for the Blind Asylum, Liverpool. ()
- LANCASTER CASTLE, BY MOONLIGHT. ()
- THE LAUREL. ()
- LEGEND. ()
- LINES Occasioned by my putting a Bee out of my Window one cold Morning in February, at the request of a Child. ()
- MERCY. ()
- MORNING HYMN. ()
- MORNING HYMN. ()
- MY LAST VISIT TO W — Y C — G, ON THE SICKNESS OF MRS. W — Y. ()
- [THE MYRTLE] Upon a lady losing a sprig of Myrtle, presented to her by her husband, on the morning of their marriage. ()
- OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF MRS. MIRIAM GILLISON. ()
- ODE TO HEALTH. ()
- ODE TO HOPE. ()
- OMNISCIENCE. ()
- ON FINDING A STRAYED CHILD. ()
- ON FRIENDSHIP. ()
- ON THE BIRTH DAY OF THREE YOUNG LADIES. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ANNE GILLISON. ()
- ON THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD. ()
- POWER AND PROVIDENCE. ()
- THE QUESTION. ()
- RESIGNATION. ()
- SOLILOQUY. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONNET TO CELIA. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- A SUNDAY EVENING's HYMN, IN SICKNESS. ()
- THOUGHTS BEFORE THE INTERMENT OF A FRIEND. ()
- THOUGHTS OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF AN AMIABLE YOUTH, WHILE HIS FRIENDS WERE MET TO CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH-DAY. ()
- THOUGHTS OCCURRING IN THE THEATRE, ON SEEING MRS. SIDDONS IN THE CHARACTER OF BELVIDERA. ()
- THE THREE LAMPS; OR, THE HERMIT OF THE WOOD. ()
- TO A SICK FRIEND. ()
- TO AMANDA, On her recovery from sickness. ()
- TO ANNA. ()
- TO BELINDA. ()
- TO DELIA. ()
- TO ELIZA S — —. ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF A LADY, Whom the Author much esteemed when very young. ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE REV. C — — R — —. ()
- TO THE SAME. ()
- TO THE SAME. ()
- TO — — — ()
- TO — — —. ()
- UPON FINDING THE INSCRIPTION ON MY MOTHER'S MONUMENT DEFACED. ()
- WILLIAM AND ELLEN. ()
- WISDOM. ()
- WIT AND JUDGMENT. ()
- WRITTEN AT W. C. IN OCTOBER, AT SUN-SET ()