Epigram After Having Seen Several Bad Paintings Of The Death Of Sir John Moore

"O all ye Sons of Taste! with raptured sight     Behold this image of the God of light;     Admire its whole, admire its every part;     'Tis sc"

"(Supposed To Be Written By Miss B***, His Sister.)     At God's command the vital spirit fled,     And thou, my Brother! slumber'st with the"

"The piece, to-night, is of peculiar kind,     For which the appropriate name is hard to find;     No Comedy, 'tis clear; nor can it be,     Wit"

"Mortal! whoe'er thou art, that passest by,     Stop, and behold this stone with heedful eye!     Here lies a Youth, whom Death's resistless powe"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"