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TO MISS B—SH, OF BRISTOL.
1 BEFORE I seek the dreary shore,
2 Where Gambia's rapid billows roar,
3 And foaming pour along;
4 To you I urge the plaintive strain,
5 And tho' a lover sings in vain,
6 Yet you shall hear the song
7 Ungrateful, cruel, lovely maid,
8 Since all my torments were repaid
9 With frowns or languid sneers;
10 With assiduities no more
11 Your captive will your health implore,
12 Or tease you with his tears.
13 Now to the regions where the sun
14 Does his hot course of glory run,
15 And parches up the ground:
16 Where o'er the burning cleaving plains,
17 A long external dog-star reigns,
18 And splendor flames around:
19 There will I go, yet not to find
20 A fire intenser than my mind,
21 Which burns a constant flame:
22 There will I lose thy heavenly form,
23 Nor shall remembrance, raptur'd, warm,
24 Draw shadows of thy frame.
25 In the rough element the sea,
26 I'll drown the softer subject, thee,
27 And sink each lovely charm:
28 No more my bosom shall be torne;
29 No more by wild ideas borne,
30 I'll cherish the alarm.
31 Yet, Polly, could thy heart be kind,
32 Soon would my feeble purpose sind
33 Thy sway within my breast:
34 But hence, soft scenes of painted woe,
35 Spite of the dear delight I'll go,
36 Forget her, and be blest.
D. CELORIMON.
Source edition
Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse; by Thomas Chatterton, the supposed author of the poems published under the names of Rowley, Canning, &c. London: printed for Fielding and Walker, Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLXXVIII., 1778, pp. 85-86. xxxii,245,[3]p.,plates; 8⁰. (ESTC T39457; OTA K039720.000)
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Other works by Thomas Chatterton
- ACROSTIC ON MISS [ELEANOR HOYLAND]. 1768. ()
- ACROSTIC ON MISS [SALLY CLARKE]. 1768. ()
- THE ADVICE. ADDRESSED TO MISS M—— R——, OF BRISTOL. ()
- A BURLESQUE CANTATA. 1770. ()
- BURLETTA. THE WOMAN OF SPIRIT. 1770. ()
- CERDICK, TRANSLATED FROM THE SAXON. ()
- CHATTERTON'S WILL. 1770. ()
- COLIN INSTRUCTED. 1770. ()
- THE CONSULIAD, AN HEROIC POEM. ()
- THE COPERNICAN SYSTEM. ()
- THE DEATH OF NICOU, AN AFRICAN ECLOGUE. ()
- THE DEFENCE, ()
- ELEGY, ON W. BECKFORD ESQ. ()
- ELEGY, To the Memory of Mr. THOMAS PHILLIPS of Fairford. ()
- ELEGY. ()
- ELEGY. ()
- EPISTLE TO THE REVEREND MR. CATCOTT. ()
- ETHELGAR, A SAXON POEM. ()
- FEBRUARY, AN ELEGY. ()
- GODRED CROVAN, A POEM. ()
- GORTHMUND, TRANSLATED FROM THE SAXON. ()
- HECCAR AND GAIRA AN AFRICAN ECLOGUE. ()
- THE HIRLAS, Translated from the ancient British of OWEN CYFELIOG, Prince of Powys. ()
- IN IMITATION OF OUR OLD POETS. ON OURE LADYES CHIRCH. 1769. ()
- KENRICK. TRANSLATED FROM THE SAXON. ()
- THE METHODIST. MAY 1770. ()
- NARVA AND MORED, AN AFRICAN ECLOGUE. ()
- ODE TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
- ON MR. ALCOCK, OF BRISTOL, AN EXCELLENT MINIATURE PAINTER. ()
- One CANTO of an ANCIENT POEM, CALLED The UNKNOWN KNIGHT or the TOURNAMENT. ()
- THE PROPHECY. ()
- SENTIMENT. 1769. ()
- SONG TO MR. G. CATCOTT. 1769. ()
- A SONG. ADDRESSED TO MISS C—AM OF BRISTOL. ()
- SONG. FANNY[|BETSY] OF THE HILL. 1770. ()
- TO A FRIEND. ()
- TO MISS C—KE. 1768. ()
- TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
- TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
- TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
- TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
- TO MISS H—L—D. WITH A PRESENT. 1768. ()
- TO MR. HOLLAND. ()
- TO THE BEAUTEOUS MISS H—L—D. ()