Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General editor’s preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Note on the text
- Volume the First
- Volume the Second
- Volume the Third
- Corrections and emendations
- Appendix A The History of England: facsimile
- Appendix B Marginalia in Oliver Goldsmith’s The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II
- Appendix C Marginalia in Vicesimus Knox’s Elegant Extracts . . . in Prose
- Appendix D Sophia Sentiment’s letter in The Loiterer, 28 March 1789
- Appendix E Continuations of ‘Evelyn’ and ‘Catharine’ by James Edward Austen and Anna Lefroy
- Abbreviations
- Explanatory Notes
Ode to Pity
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General editor’s preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Note on the text
- Volume the First
- Volume the Second
- Volume the Third
- Corrections and emendations
- Appendix A The History of England: facsimile
- Appendix B Marginalia in Oliver Goldsmith’s The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II
- Appendix C Marginalia in Vicesimus Knox’s Elegant Extracts . . . in Prose
- Appendix D Sophia Sentiment’s letter in The Loiterer, 28 March 1789
- Appendix E Continuations of ‘Evelyn’ and ‘Catharine’ by James Edward Austen and Anna Lefroy
- Abbreviations
- Explanatory Notes
Summary
1
Ever musing I delight to tread
The Paths of honour and the Myrtle Grove
Whilst the pale Moon her beams doth shed
On disappointed Love.
While Philomel on airy hawthorn Bush
Sings sweet and Melancholy, And the Thrush
Converses with the Dove.
2.
Gently brawling down the turnpike road,
Sweetly noisy falls the Silent Stream—
The Moon emerges from behind a Cloud
And darts upon the Myrtle Grove her beam.
Ah! then what Lovely Scenes appear,
The hut, the Cot, the Grot, and Chapel queer,
And eke the Abbey too a mouldering heap,
Conceal’d by aged pines her head doth rear
And quite invisible doth take a peep.
End of the first volume.
June 3d 1793—
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- Juvenilia , pp. 96 - 98Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006