The Irish Poet and the Natural World: An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics

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CONTENTS1 Acknowledgements xiii Note on the Texts xiv Introduction 1 Select Bibliography 49 Prelude Luke Gernon (1600–1620–1673) This Nymph of Ireland 59 Part I: 1580–1689 John Derricke (fl.1575–1581) from: The First Part of the Image of Irelande 63 Richard Stanihurst (1547–1582–1618) A Devise made by Virgil… Englished 69 Edmund Spenser (c.1552–c.1595–1599) from: The Faerie Queene 71 Richard Nugent (fl.1604) Fare-well sweete Isle 76 Anonymous (1622) from: A Battell of Birds 77 Richard Bellings (c.1598–1624–1677) The Description of a Tempest 81 Lady Ann Southwell (1571–c.1626–1636) from: An Elegie… to the Countesse… 84 Anonymous (c.1636) Ye merry Boyes all that live in Fingaule 88 Anonymous (1644) from: A Looking-Glasse of the World 91 Payne Fisher (1616–1645–1693) On a dangerous Voyage 98 John Perrot (fl.1659–1671) from: A Song for that Assembly 102 Katherine Philips (1632–1662–1664) The Irish Greyhound 106 vii Where possible, three dates are given for each author: birth, date of first circulation of the 1 work printed in this anthology and death. viii Sir William Temple (1628–c.1663–1699) On my Lady Giffard’s Loory 108 Ambrose White (fl.1665) Verses for the year... 1665 112 Richard Head (c.1637–1674–1686) A Great Sea-Storm describ’d 115 Edmund Arwaker (c.1655–1686–c.1710) from: Fons Perennis 119 Part II: 1690–1739 Nahum Tate (1652–1696–1715) Upon the Sight of an Anatomy 123 George Wilkins (1674–1699–?) from: The Chace of the Stagg 126 Dorothy Smith (fl.1701) from: The Shepherd’s Jubilee 129 Jonathan Swift (1667–1710–1745) A Description of a City Shower 134 Thomas Parnell (1679–1713–1718) from: Health, an Eclogue 137 James Ward (1691–1718–1736) from: Phoenix Park 140 John Winstanley(?) (1677–1718–1750) An Elegy on... Jenny the Fish 143 John Winstanley(?) (1677–c.1720–1750) A Poem upon Daisy 146 James Arbuckle (c.1700–1721–c.1747) from: Glotta 150 Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) and William Dunkin (1705–1765), 1723 Carbery Rocks 154 Thomas Sheridan (1687–1724–1738) A Description of Doctor Delany’s Villa 156 Thomas Sheridan(?) (1687–1725–1738) from: To the Honourable Mr D. T. 158 Laetitia Pilkington (c.1708–1725–1750) The Petition of the Birds 161 Mr B-------r (fl.1726) On the Ortolans 163 ix Murroghoh O’Connor (fl.1726) from: The County of Kerry 164 Charles Coffey(?) (1700–1727–1745) from: The Bason 167 Mary Barber (c.1685–c.1728–1755) Written from Dublin to a Lady 169 Matthew Pilkington (1701–1731–1774) The Bee 171 James Belcher(?) (fl.1726–1732) A Cat may look upon a King 175 Patrick Delany (1685–c.1732–1768) from: Longford’s Glyn 177 John Lawson(?) (1708/9–1733–1759) from: The Upper Gallery 180 James Delacourt (1709–1734–1781) from: To Mr Thomson, on his Seasons 183 Henry Brooke (c.1703–1735–1783) from: Universal Beauty 186 James Sterling (1701–1737–1763) from: A Friend in Need 189 Part III: 1740–1769 Wetenhall Wilkes (1705/6–1741–1751) from: Bellville 195 Walter Chamberlaine(?) (c.1706–1741–1754) from: A Poem occasioned by… Powers-Court 201 Samuel Shepherd (1701/2–1741–1785) from: Leixlip 204 William Dunkin (1705–1741–1765) The Frosty Winters of Ireland 208 Thomas Delamayne (1718–1742–1773) from: To Francis Bindon Esq. 213 Laurence Whyte (c.1683–1742–c.1753) Famine 218 Laurence Whyte (c.1683–1742–c.1753) from: The Parting Cup 222 Thomas Mozeen (fl.1744–1768) A Description of a Fox-Chase 225 x Henry Jones (1721–1744–1770) On a fine Crop of Peas… spoil’d by a storm 228 Henry Jones (1721–1746–1770) Philosophy: a poem 230 Anonymous (1746) from: Leixlip: a Poem 233 Edmund Burke (1729–1748–1797) from: O fortunatos nimium paraphras’d 237 James Kirkpatrick (1696–1750–1770) from: The Sea Piece 240 John Winstanley(?) (1677–c.1750–1750) To the Revd. Mr ------- on his Drinking Sea-Water 244 Anonymous (1753) On the Hot-Wells at Mallow 246 Anonymous (1754) from: The Villa: or Glasnevin 249 Thomas Newburgh (c.1695–1758–1779) The Beau-Walk, in Stephen’s Green 252 Richard Barton (1706–1759–1759) from: A Physico-Poetical Essay 253 William Balfour Madden (c.1730–1761–1783) from: Bellisle: a poem 258 James Eyre Weeks (c.1719–1762–1775) On the late Fog...