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ON THE BIRTH-DAY OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN THE EAST INDIES
1 Methinks the lark with sweeter lay
2 Salutes the smiling morn,
3 All nature seems to hail the day
4 When such a son was born.
5 He sprung like yonder poplar fair
6 In all the charms of youth,
7 A something shone in all his air
8 Of dignity and truth.
9 His face and figure must engage,
10 And such a soul has he;
11 The like is given once in an age,
12 To shew what man should be.
[Page 32]13 Then why from Britain's happy isle
14 To other regions go;
15 Shall strangers share that angel smile
16 While friends are sunk in woe?
17 No, charming Phoenix, shew your sense;
18 Relieve a load of pain,
19 And let the winds that bore you hence
20 Convey you back again.
About this text
Author: Rebekah Carmichael (later Hay)
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occasional poem
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Carmichael, Miss (Rebekah) (fl. 1790-1806). Poems. Edinburgh: Peter Hill, 1790, pp. 31-32. 92p. (ESTC T104666) (Page images digitized from a copy at University of California Libraries — third-party rights apply.)
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Typography, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation have been cautiously modernized. The source of the text is given and all significant editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. This ECPA text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.
Other works by Rebekah Carmichael (later Hay)
- AN ADDRESS TO NIGHT ()
- AN ELEGY ()
- THE EMPTY PURSE ()
- EPIGRAM ()
- EPIGRAM ()
- AN EPITAPH ()
- EPITAPH ()
- A HYMN ()
- THE ILL-FATED LOVER ()
- THE LOVE-LORN MAID ()
- A NIGHT SCENE ()
- ON A LADY ()
- ON A LATE DISTURBANCE IN THE THEATRE ()
- ON A REAL INSTANCE OF DISINTERESTED FRIENDSHIP ()
- ON A YOUNG GENTLEMAN's RETURN FROM JAMAICA ()
- ON A YOUNG LADY ()
- ON A YOUNG LADY, WHO ASKED A NECKLACE OF A GENTLEMAN's HAIR, AND WAS REFUSED ()
- ON MR ****** ()
- ON MR ****** ACTOR ()
- ON RECEIVING A POT OF THYME ()
- ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTH-DAY ()
- ON THE FATE OF CAPTAIN G***** ()
- ON THE ST BERNARD'S CANARY BIRDS ()
- ON THE STUMP OF AN OLD TREE ()
- ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN ()
- A REQUEST ()
- A ROMANTIC SCENE Which happened in the year 1746. ()
- A SONG ()
- A SONG ()
- A SONG ()
- A SONG ()
- A SONG ()
- THE STAR OF EDEN VALE ()
- THE STRUGGLE ()
- A TALE ()
- TO CAPTAIN **** ()
- TO MR ***** ()
- THE TOOTH ()
- THE TWA DOWS ()
- THE VILLAIN's SOLILOQUY ()
- WORDS OF COURSE ()
- WRITTEN IN THE HERMITAGE AT BRAID ()
- WRITTEN IN THE HERMITAGE OF BRAID ()
- A YOUNG LASS's SOLILOQUY ()