Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry: A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries

By Edmund Goldsmid

"Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry: A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries" by Edmund Goldsmid is a collection of poems that the author collected through his studies and travels. Manuscripts, public and private libraries; old books picked up on dusty bookstalls, or carried away as prizes from the battlefield of the auction-room; even pencillings on the inside of tattered bindings contributed to this collection. Each poem in this book, some of which remain authorless, has the musings of the author to help readers understand them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 19, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066150051

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Edmund Goldsmid

Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry

A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066150051

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INTRODUCTION.

I. BEAUTIES FORT

BEAUTIES FORT.

MY BONNY LASS! THINE EYE.

ANTHONY MUNDAY'S POEM ON THE CAPTIVITY OF JOHN FOX.

CARE FOR THY SOULE.

MEGLIORA SPERO.

A LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH TO THE KING.

THE KING'S ANSWER.

AN EPITAPH ON DUNDEE.

THE ROBBER ROBB'D.

AH! THE SHEPHERD'S MOURNFUL FATE!

SOME VERSES TO A FRIEND WHO TWICE VENTURED ON MARRIAGE.

A PANYGYRICK UPON OATES.

THE MIRACLE.

THE PATRIOTS.

JUSTICE IN MASQUERADE; OR, SCROGGS UPON SCROGGS.

THE BRAWNY BISHOP'S COMPLAINT.

THE POOR BLIND BOY.

THE INISKILLING REGIMENT.

A BALLAD ON THE FLEET.

ON SEEING MR. FOX AND MR. HASTINGS AT CHELTENHAM.

AN IMITATION OF HORACE

EPITAPH ON DR. JOHNSON.

VERSES UPON THE ROAD.. FACIT INDIGNATIO.

SATYR ON THE SCOTS.

THE MARSEILLAISE.

A DIRGE.

FINIS.

INTRODUCTION.

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The following curious collection I have gathered together during several years' reading in out-of-the-way corners. Manuscripts, in public and private libraries; old books picked up on dusty bookstalls, or carried away as prizes from the battlefield of the auction-room; even pencillings on the inside of tattered bindings,—all have been laid under contribution. I trust this medley, or pot-pourri, of snatches of song, grave and gay, will prove as interesting to my readers as they have been to myself. They claim attention on various grounds: some are the works of well-known men, such as Anthony Munday and Warren Hastings; some are bitter political squibs—such, for instance, as the Satyre against the Scots, page 47; some, again, are exquisitely beautiful, as The Dirge, page 53. A few have appeared in different collections: but none of my readers, I will undertake to say, have seen more than a half-dozen or so.

With these few words I beg to introduce Volume One of the "Collectanea

Adamantaea."

EDMUND GOLDSMID.

Edinburgh, March 6th, 1884.

I. BEAUTIES FORT

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II. MY BONNY LASS, THINE EYE

III. ANTHONY MUNDAY'S POEM ON THE CAPTIVITY OF JOHN FOX

IV. CARE FOR THY SOUL

V. MEGLIORA SPERO

VI. A LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH TO THE KING

VII. THE KING'S ANSWER

VIII. AN EPITAPH ON DUNDEE

IX. THE ROBBER ROBB'D

X. AH! THE SHEPHERD'S MOURNFUL FATE

XI. VERSES TO A FRIEND

XII. A PANYGYRICK UPON OATES

XIII. THE MIRACLE

XIV. THE PATRIOTS

XV. JUSTICE IN MASQUERADE

XVI. THE BRAWNY BISHOP'S LAMENT

XVII. THE POOR BLIND BOY

XVIII. THE INISKILLING REGIMENT

XIX. A BALLAD ON THE FLEET

XX. ON MR. FOX AND MR. HASTINGS

XXI. AN IMITATION OF HORACE, BK. II, ODE