TO A NIGHTINGALE IN CLIFDEN WOOD. TO MRS. D. MONCK, OF COOKHAM. George Monck Berkeley Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T142950 K111746.000 Berkeley, George Monck, 1763-1793. Poems: by the late George-Monck Berkeley, Esq. ... With a preface by the editor, consisting of some anecdotes of Mr. Monck Berkeley and several of his friends. London printed by J. Nichols; and sold by Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby; Mr. Edwards; Mr. Cooke, Oxford; Mr. Todd, York; Messrs. Simmons and Co.; Messrs. Flackton, Marrable, and Claris; and Mr. Bristow, Canterbury 1797 pp. 69-70. viii,DCXXXII,212p.,plate: port.; 4⁰.

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TO A NIGHTINGALE IN CLIFDEN WOOD . TO MRS. D. MONCK , OF COOKHAM . SAY , sad tenant of the grove , Whence the pains that now you prove ? Why , within your throbbing breast , Why is Sorrow still a guest ? Sleeps in death your murder'd mate ? Weep'st thou his melancholy fate ? If 'tis that disturbs thy peace Spring shall bid thy sorrows cease ; Then thy breast , that heaves in woe , With Love's bright flame again shall glow . Yet , sweet mourner , still complain , Nor , though bless'd , forbear thy strain ; For , sweetly sad thy warblings flow , And charming is thy song of woe ; As at eve he treads the plain , Oft it soothes the shepherd swain ; When he seeks the conscious shade , There to meet the village maid ; He with rapture hears thy lay Issue from the hawthorn spray ; And with mine unites his praise Of Philomela's tender lays .