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An ELEGY.
1 Oh where, Oh where are all those joys,
2 That in ten thousand forms arise,
3 T' elude the wand'ring eye,
4 When youth its vigorous charms displays,
5 And beauty sheds its softening rays
6 To move the wishful sigh.
7 Ah! youth is but a summer's morn,
8 When shining drops the fields adorn,
9 Their twinkling soon is o'er:
10 So beauty by encroaching years
11 Exhilarates and disappears,
12 And youth returns no more.
13 What happiness attends the pair,
14 Whose bliss no low intruding care,
15 Or adverse fates destroy;
16 When youth and beauty disappears,
17 Their virtues, ripening with their years,
18 Increase their mutual joy.
19 But how, Oh! how can I relate
20 The heart-felt tale — the hapless fate?
[Page 108]21 Where are you gone, my tears?
22 O come and give my heart relief,
23 For Collin's dead, alas! and grief
24 Embitters Hebe's years.
25 When health fat blooming on his face,
26 And beauty with resplendent grace,
27 In every feature shone;
28 Voracious death seiz'd on his prey,
29 No warning sickness mark'd his way;
30 He died — alas, he's gone!
31 When rosy health, with flattering smiles,
32 Th' unwary thoughtless youth beguiles,
33 He counts his coming years;
34 Presumptuous man! by Collin's fate,
35 Learn to contract the doubtful date,
36 And pity Hebe's tears.
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Author: Elizabeth Hands (née Herbert)
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Hands, Elizabeth, 1746-1815. The death of Amnon. A poem. With an appendix: containing pastorals, and other poetical pieces. By Elizabeth Hands. [Coventry]: Printed for the author, by N. Rollason, Coventry, M,DCCLXXXIX., 1789, pp. 107-108. [40],127,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T141063) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Dunston B 961 (1)].)
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Other works by Elizabeth Hands (née Herbert)
- ABSENCE AND DEATH. A PASTORAL. ()
- ABSENCE. ()
- CONTENTMENT. ()
- CORINNA TO LYCIDAS. ()
- CRITICAL FRAGMENTS, ON SOME OF THE ENGLISH POETS. ()
- THE DEATH OF AMNON. A POEM. ()
- An ENIGMA. ()
- An EPISTLE. ()
- The FAVOURITE SWAIN. ()
- FRIENDSHIP. An ODE. ()
- LEANDER AND BELINDA. A TALE. ()
- LOB's COURTSHIP. ()
- LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. A PASTORAL. ()
- OBSERVATION ON THE WORKS of NATURE. ()
- OBSERVATION, On an EVENING. ()
- OBSERVATION. ()
- On a WEDDING. ()
- On an UNSOCIABLE FAMILY. ()
- On CONTEMPLATIVE EASE. ()
- On reading Pope's Eloiza to Abelard. ()
- On the Author's LYING-IN, AUGUST, 1785. ()
- A PASTORAL DIALOGUE. ()
- A PASTORAL SONG. ()
- A PASTORAL. [As Thirsis and Daphne, upon the new hay] ()
- A PASTORAL. [Young Corydon, a blithesome swain] ()
- A PASTORAL. [Young Damon gay, a faithful-hearted swain] ()
- PERPLEXITY. A POEM. ()
- PHILLIS TO DAMON. A SONG. ()
- A POEM, On the Supposition of an Advertisement appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poem, by a Servant Maid. ()
- A POEM, On the Supposition of the Book having been published and read. ()
- REFLECTION on MEDITATION. ()
- REFLECTION. ()
- The RURAL MAID in LONDON, To her FRIEND in the COUNTRY. An EPISTLE. ()
- A SONG. [Far from the woods, alas, I rove] ()
- A SONG. [When Chloe, smiling, gave consent] ()
- A SONG. [Ye swains cease to flatter, our hearts to obtain] ()
- THIRSIS AND DAPHNE. A POEM. ()
- To THIRSIS, On his signifying his intention to lay aside his Hautboy. ()
- The WIDOWER's COURTSHIP. ()
- WIT AND BEAUTY. A PASTORAL. ()
- Written on Their MAJESTIES coming to Kew. ()
- Written while the Author sat on a COOK of HAY. ()
- Written, originally extempore, on seeing a Mad HEIFER run through the Village where the Author lives. ()