POEMS:

BY

THE REV. GEORGE CRABBE, LL.B.

Ipse per Ausonias Æneïa carmina gentes
Qui sonat, ingenti qui nomine pulsat Olympum;
Mæöniumque senem Romano provocat ore:

Forsitan illius nemoris latuisset in umbrâ

Quod canit, et sterili tantum cantâsset avenâ

Ignotus populi; si Mæcenate careret.

Paneg. ad Pisones, Lucan.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

FIFTH EDITION.

London:

PRINTED FOR J. HATCHARD,

BOOKSELLER TO HER MAJESTY, 190, OPPOSITE ALBANY,

PICCADILLY.

1810.

Brettell and Co. Printers,

Marshall-Street, Golden-Square, London.

DEDICATION.

TO THE

RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY-RICHARD FOX,

LORD HOLLAND,

OF HOLLAND, IN LINCOLNSHIRE;

LORD HOLLAND, of foxLEY;

AND

FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.

MY LORD;

THAT the longest Poem in

this Collection was honoured by the notice of your Lordship's Right Honourable and evervalued Relation, Mr. Fox; that it should be

the last which engaged his attention; and