THE

PLEASURES OF MEMORY,

AND

OTHER POEMS.

BY SAMUEL ROGERS, Esq.

To which is added,

THE

PAINS OF MEMORY.

BY ROBERT MERRY, A. M.

NEW-YORK :

PUBLISHED BY R. & W. A. BARTOW, 347 PEARL-

STREET, FRANKLIN-SQUARE, AND W. A. BARTOW,
RICHMOND, (VIR.)

J. Gray Co. Printers.

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INDEX

TO ROGERS' POEMS,

Invocation

5

Analysis of the first part of the Pleasures of Memory 9

Pleasures of Memory, part 1st

11

Analysis of part 2d

25

Pleasures of Memory, part 2d

27

Notes on part 1st

43

Notes on part 2d

51

Ode to Superstition

57

Notes on the Ode

63

Epistle to a Friend

67

Preface to the Epistle

69

Notes on the Epistle

81

To the Gnat

89

Sketch of the Alps at day-break

89

Greek Epigram imitated

90

The Sailor, an elegy

91

Captivity

92

On a Tear

98

An Italian Song

To a Friend on his Marriage

To a Youngest Daughter -

A Wish

A Character

Farewell

To an Old Oak

To a Voice that had been lost

Fragments from Euripides

Written at Midnight, 1786

Verses written to be spoken by Mrs. Siddons

To Two Sisters

Written in a Sick Chamber

To the Fragments of a Statue of Hercules

Imitation of an Italian Sonnet

An Epitaph on a Robin Redbreast

On a Girl Asleep

Το

Verses written in Westminster Abbey

To the Butterfly

The Hermit

The Superannuated Lover

94

96

96

97

97

98

100

101

102

102

105

106

107

108

108

109

109

110

112

113

121

Paips of Memory, by Robert Merry, A. M.

123