THE POEMS OF RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

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Edited with Introductions by R. Crompton Rhodes

OXFORD: BASIL BLACKWELL 1928 EDITION

CONTENTS

CLIO’S PROTEST, WITH OTHER POEMS

NOTE

INTRODUCTION ‘THE RIDOTTO OF BATH’

CLIO’S PROTEST

INTRODUCTION: TO THE EDITION OF 1819

THE BATH PICTURE

CLIO’S PROTEST

THE RIDOTTO OF BATH

VERSES ADDRESSED TO LAURA

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CLIO’S PROTEST, WITH OTHER POEMS

LONGER POEMS

NOTE

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1771

THE LOVE EPISTLES OF ARISTAENETUS

EPISTLE I — LAIS

EPISTLE III — THE GARDEN OF PHYLLION

EPISTLE IX — THE SLIP

EPISTLE XII — THE ENRAPTURED LOVER

EPISTLE XIII — THE SAGACIOUS DOCTOR

EPISTLE XXVIII — THE RIVAL FRIENDS

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

A FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO THE AUTHOR OF THE HEROIC EPISTLE

INTRODUCTION

A PORTRAIT

INTRODUCTION

DEDICATION

VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF GARRICK

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LONGER POEMS

FUGITIVE VERSE

NOTE

INTRODUCTION

FUGITIVE VERSE

1. MARKED YOU HER EYE OF HEAV’NLY BLUE?

2. ANACREONTIC

3. THE KISS

4. I GAVE MY LOVE A BUDDING ROSE

5. DAMON TO DELIA

6. DRY BE THAT TEAR

7. ON FIRE

8. TO THE RECORDING ANGEL

9. THE GROTTO

10. THINK NOT, MY LOVE, WHEN SECRET GRIEF

11. TO ELIZABETH LINLEY

12. ON HIS WIFE CEASING TO SING

13. TO HYMEN

14. WHEN’TIS NIGHT, AND THE MID-WATCH IS COME

15. CHEARLY, MY HEARTS, OF COURAGE

16. WE TWO, EACH OTHER’S ONLY PRIDE

17. LINES BY A LADY OF FASHION

18. TO LAURA

19. THE GONDOLIER’S SONG

20. BY ADVERSE FATE

21. THE GENTLE PRIMROSE

22. IF FORTUNE

23 AS SHEPHERDS THROUGH THE VAPOURS GREY

24. EPITAPH ON BROOKS

25. ON TWO DEAD SPEAKERS

26. ELEGY ON THE LAMENTED DEATH OF AN AVADAVAT

27. ON THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH SHERIDAN

28. FROM EVERY LATENT FOE

29. MELANCHOLY, FRIEND TO GRIEF

30. ON LADY ANNE HAMILTON’S DOG

31. ON LADY ANNE HAMILTON

32. LINES BY A LADY ON THE LOSS OF HER TRUNK

33. I HAVE A SILENT SORROW HERE

34. YES, YES, BE MERCILESS, THOU TEMPEST DIRE!

35. THE WALSE

36. THE WALTZ

37. AN ADDRESS TO THE PRINCE REGENT

POLITICAL PASQUINADES

YE SONS OF FREEDOM, WAKE TO GLORY (MARSEILLAISE)

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FUGITIVE VERSE

PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES

NOTE

EPILOGUE TO EDWARD AND ELEANORA

EPILOGUE TO SEMIRAMIS

PROLOGUE TO SIR THOMAS OVERBURY

EPILOGUE TO THE FATAL FALSEHOOD

PROLOGUE TO THE MINIATURE ‘PICTURE

EPILOGUE TO THE FAIR CIRCASSIAN

EPILOGUE FOR A BENEFIT PLAY

EPILOGUE FOR AN UNKNOWN PLAY

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES