Poets of John Company

By Theodore Oliver Douglas Dunn

The original plan of this book provided for a collection of verse written in India by Englishmen from the earliest days of the British occupation up to our own time; and such a collection was actually made. The poems here reproduced illustrate Anglo-Indian life (old style) from the close of the eighteenth century up to and including the period of the Mutiny: but sharp chronological limits have not been observed. Featured poets include Warren Hastings, James Atkinson, and Henry Meredith Parker.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Jul 21, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547097440

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Theodore Oliver Douglas Dunn

Poets of John Company

EAN 8596547097440

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

Preface.

Introduction.

SIR WILLIAM JONES.

A Persian Song.

A Hymn to Narayena.

ANONYMOUS.

The Letters of Simpkin the Second, upon the Trial of Warren Hastings.

The Procession.

ANONYMOUS.

The Art of Living in India.

WARREN HASTINGS.

John Company.

JOHN LEYDEN.

Ode to an Indian Gold Coin.

The Battle of Assaye.

Address to my Malay Krees.

Verses written at Sagur Island in 1807.

Calcutta: a Poem.

ANONYMOUS.

The Adventures of Qui Hai.

ANONYMOUS.

A letter from Shigram-Po to his Father.

REGINALD HEBER.

Lines Addressed to Mrs. Heber.

An Evening Walk in Bengal.

HENRY DEROZIO.

On the Abolition of Sattee.

SIR CHARLES D'OYLEY.

Tom Raw the Griffin.

JAMES ATKINSON

Ode to a Punkah.

JAMES SILK BUCKINGHAM.

Starboard Watch, Ahoy!

SIR JOHN MALCOLM.

Lines Written on the Death of Leyden, 1811.

Song at an Anniversary Dinner in celebration of the Battle of Assaye.

EMMA ROBERTS.

A Scene in the Doab.

WILLIAM FRANCIS THOMPSON.

Indian Revelry.

The Jogi's Address to the Ganges.

The Rajpoot's Lament.

JAMES YOUNG

The Mosquito's Song.

JAMES HUTCHINSON.

The Pindaree.

HORACE HAYMAN WILSON.

The Ganges.

HENRY MEREDITH PARKER.

The Late Mr. Simms.

Calcutta Stanzas for the Month of May.

The Adjutant Bird.

The Mussulman's Lament over the body of Tippoo Sultan.

The Return from India.

DAVID