WITH ALL RESPECT, IS DEDICATED BY HIS LORDSHIP’S MOST OBLIGED AND MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. _Jan. 1788._ CONTENTS. Page LEWESDON HILL 1 Notes 41 Inscribed beneath the picture of an ass 61 Ode to the Lyric Muse. Spoken in the Theatre at the installation of Lord North, chancellor of the university of Oxford 64 Verses intended to have been spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at his installation as chancellor of the university of Oxford, in the year 1793 70 On the Death of Captain Cook 75 Elegy to the memory of Dr. W. Hayes, professor of music in the university of Oxford 80 The World. Intended as an apology for not writing. By a Lady 82 The British Theatre. Written in 1775 84 On two Publications, entitled Editions of two of our Poets 89 The Spleen 92 Lines written with a pencil in a lady’s almanac 98 To a young gentlewoman, with Thomson’s Seasons, doubled down at the story of Palemon and Lavinia 101 Sonnet 103 Sonnet to Petrarch 105 To a lady, who desired some specimens of the author’s poetry 107 Epitaph on a child who died of a scarlet fever in the fifteenth month of his age, 1802 108 Epitaph on Sir Charles Turner, bart. in the family mausoleum at Kirk Leatham, Yorkshire 109 Lines written at the tomb of William of Wykeham, in Winchester cathedral 111 Translation of a Greek inscription upon a fountain 112 From Lucretius sæpius olim Religio peperit scelerosa.—Lib. I. v. 83. 114 From Lucretius Suave, mari magno turbantibus.—Lib. II. v. 1. 117 From Lucretius Avia Pieridum peragro loca.—Lib. IV. v. 1. 119 Psalm LXXII. abridged, and adapted to a particular tune 120 Midnight Devotion. Written in the great storm, 1822 123 Silbury Hill 125 To the Daisy 127