OF THE

Later English Poets,

WITH PRELIMINARY NOTICES;

BY ROBERT SOUTHEY.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,

Printed by S. Hollingsworth, Crane-Court, Fleet-Street.

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CUTHBERT SHAW.

Ravensworth, Yorkshire. 1738-1771.

The Monodies of this writer upon his Wife and Child are

well known. What other misfortunes he suffered besides

their deaths, were occasioned by his own follies and vices. His first poem was published under the name of W. Sey

mour,

An Evening Address to a Nightingale,

Sweet bird! that kindly perching near,

Pourest thy plaints melodious in mine era
Not, like base worldlings, tutor'd to forego
The melancholy haunts of woe,

Thanks for thy sorrow-soothing strain :-
For surely, thou hast known to prove,
Like me, the pangs of hapless love,

Else why so feelingly complain,
And with thy piteous notes thus sadden all the
Say, dost thou mourn thy ravish'd mate,

That oft enamour'd on thy strains has hung?

grove?