The polyhymnia: being a collection of poetry, original and selected. By a society of gentlemen.
Glasgow : printed for and sold by John Murdoch,
[1799]
The numbered parts all start with 'The polyhymnia. no. ... Containing ...' and the songs are: 1, "Poor Mary's broken sixpence: ..."; 2, "The last love-letters, ..."; 3, "The answer to the last love-letter, ..."; 4, "The forsaken wife's remonstrance, ..."; 5, "The husband's penitence, ..."; 6, "The rambling bear: ..."; 7, "The hymn to friendship, ...", 8, "The haunted castle, ..."; 9, "An epithalamium ..."; 10, "The court of Venus, ..."; 11, "The magic pill: ..."; 12, "The magic pill: ... continued, ..."; 13, "The African slave, ..."; 14, "Verses ..."; 15, "Kelvin stream; ..."; 16, "The hill of heroes: ..."; 17, "The hill of heroes: ... continued ..."; 18, "Eliza, ..."; 19, "Address to Miss B-, ..."; 20, "Claudian's Epithalamium, ... continued ...".
Originally issued in 20 parts, each with separate titlepage and register.
Here bound together with a general titlepage, preliminaries and an index.
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