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TO A CERTAIN AUTHOR, ON HIS WRITING A PROLOGUE, WHEREIN HE DESCRIBES A TRAVELLER FROZEN IN A SNOW STORM.
1 No more let poets vainly boast
2 Their fine descriptive art,
3 They ransack Nature's gayest store,
4 Yet rarely warm the heart.
5 Hail, happy Bard, whose brilliant wit,
6 With more than Poet's art,
7 Can from a frozen mass extract
8 Fire that can melt the heart.
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Title (in Source Edition): TO A CERTAIN AUTHOR, ON HIS WRITING A PROLOGUE, WHEREIN HE DESCRIBES A TRAVELLER FROZEN IN A SNOW STORM.
Author: Mary Alcock (née Cumberland)
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occasional poem
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Alcock [née Cumberland], Mary, 1741?–1798. Poems, &c. &c. by the Late Mrs. Mary Alcock [poems only]. London: Printed for C. Dilly, Poultry, 1799, p. 105. vii,[25],183,[1]p. (ESTC T86344) (Page images digitized by University of Michigan Library.)
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- CHARADE. ()
- THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER'S COMPLAINT. ()
- A COLLEGE LIFE. FOR THE VASE AT BATH-EASTON. ()
- THE CONFINED DEBTOR. A FRAGMENT FROM A PRISON. ()
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- DITTO. ()
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- EPIGRAM. ()
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- A HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
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- THE LXIIID PSALM. ()
- MODERN MANNERS. ()
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- ON RAILLERY. WRITTEN IN MAY 1781, FOR THE VASE AT BATH-EASTON. ()
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- A PARODY UPON WHO DARES TO KILL KILDARE. ()
- A PARTY AT QUADRILLE. ()
- THE POWER OF FANCY. WRITTEN FOR THE VASE AT BATH-EASTON. ()
- PSALM CXXXIX. ()
- A RECEIPT FOR WRITING A NOVEL. ()
- RIDDLE. ()
- THE ROSE TREE AND THE POPPY. A FABLE. ()
- A SONG. ()
- UPON READING SOME VERSES UPON A SCULL. ()
- A VISION. ()
- WRITTEN AT HARROWGATE. ()
- WRITTEN AT SWANDLING BAR, IN THE COUNTY OF CAVAN, IN IRELAND. ()
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- WRITTEN IN IRELAND. ()
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