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Thomas Gent

I lived from 1693-1778. I was from Ireland, and am in the English category.

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  • To .........
    Come, Jenny, let me sip the dew,
    That on those coral lips doth play,
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Henry and Eliza
    O'er the wide heath now moon-tide horrors hung,
    And night's dark pencil dim'd the tints of spring;
    40 lines
  • Song
    Oh! never will I leave my love,
    My captive soul would sigh to stray,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • On the Death of Dr. Abel (1)
    Another awful warning voice of death
    To human dignity, and human pride;
    36 lines
  • Bertram And Anna
    Stranger! if thou e'er did'st love,
    If nature in thy bosom glows,
    140 lines
  • Constancy, To----
    Dearest love! when thy God shall recall thee,
    Be this record inscribed on thy tomb:
    21 lines
  • Address To Albion
    To thee, O Albion! be the tribute paid
    Which sympathy demands, the patriot tear;
    32 lines
  • A Fragment
    Oh, Youth! could dark futurity reveal
    Her hidden worlds, unlock her cloud-hung gates,
    48 lines
  • Sonnet: Morning
    Light as the breeze that hails the infant morn
    The Milkmaid trips, as o'er her arm she slings
    14 lines
  • The Sibyl, A Sketch.
    So stood the Sibyl: stream'd her hoary hair
    Wild as the blast, and with a comet's glare
    19 lines
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