# Tixall Poetry

Tixall Poetry.
Ruins of Tixall
Engraved from an Original painting in the possession of M$^r$ Clifford.
Pub$^d$ by Longman, Hurst & C$^o$ London and John Ballantyne & C$^o$ Edinburgh.
TIXALL POETRY;
with
Notes and Illustrations
by
Arthur Clifford, Esq.
Editor of Sir Ralph Sadler's State Papers.
———Sow, which from her spring, At Stafford meeteth Penk, which she along doth bring To Trent, by Tixall grac'd, the Astons' ancient seat, Which oft the Muse hath found her safe and sweet retreat. The noble owners now of which beloved place, Good fortunes them and theirs with honoured titles grace: May Heaven still bless that house, till happy floods you see Yourselves more graced by it, than it by you can be. Whose bounty, still my Muse so freely shall confess, As when she shall want words, her signs shall it express.
Drayton's Poly-olbion, Song XII.
EDINBURGH:
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For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London;
And John Ballantyne and Co. Edinburgh.
1813.
To
The Right Honourable
Lady Harriet Leveson Gower.
I have had the pleasure to be informed, that your Ladyship has frequently been heard to express your admiration of Tixall, and its situation. Your Ladyship has also favoured me with your approbation of a considerable part of the Poetry in this volume, which I had the honour, some time ago, to submit to your Ladyship's perusal. With such a decision, ​therefore, in my favour, I can confidently declare, that I feel little or no anxiety in offering this Work to the Public.
I have the honour to be, With the highest respect, Madam, Your Ladyship’s most obliged, and Most obedient humble servant, Arthur Clifford.
Edinburgh, 5th July, 1813.
* Preface
* A Midnight Meditation Among the Ruins at Tixall
Poems, Collected by the Honourable Herbert Aston, 1658
* The Expostulation of St Mary Magdalen
* On the Death of Mr P——'s Little Daughter in the Beginning of the Spring, at Amsterdam
* On the Death of the Lady Catherin White in Child-Birth, at Rome
* To Mr Normington upon His Easterne Voyage
* To Cononell Plater, upon His Easterne Voyage
* To Mr Kitely, on the Same Voyage
* A Present of Bands and Cuffes
* The Forehead the First Assault
* Forehead and Cheekes. The First Duell
* Eyes and Lips. The Second Duell
* The Fanne
* Letters to Mr Normington
* On the Death of the Countesse of Rivers
* Self-Love Mentayned to the Faire Self-Denyer, My Sister, Th.
* A Sigh to St Monica's Teares
* A New Remonstrance to His Malignant Mistresse
* A Glass Lampe Broken
* A Glasse Bell in a Pendant, Broken
* A Broken Wether-Glasse
* A Broken Burning-Glass
* A Broken Houre-Glasse
* A Broken Venice Glasse
* A Glasse Ring Broken
* A Glasse Watch-Cover
* A Broken Perspective Glass
* A Broken Looking-Glasse
* A Broken Stilling-Glasse
* A Glasse Chayne Broken
* A Glasse Window Broken
* A Glasse of Conserve of Roses Broken
* A Glass, on the One Side Concave, on the Other Convex, Broken
* To the Faire Indian of Amersford
* On the Death of Mr Morgan, Whose Last Words Were, "O God, What Is Man!"
* On the Death of Mrs Moore's Little Sonne, at Amsterdam
* To His Mistress, upon Returne from Travells
* To Mr Normington, at Piacenza, upon Occasion of the Overflowes of Po and Tyber
Poems by the Honourable Mrs Henry Thimelby
* Mrs Thimelby, on the Death of Her Only Child
* To Her Husband, on New-Years-Day, 1651
* Uppon the Returne from Our Friends in Stafordshire
* Contented Poverty
* To H——— T———
* To Mr E——— T———, Who Holds Selfe-Love in All Our Actions
* Upon a Command to Write on My Father
* To My Brother and Sister Aston, on Ther Wedding-Day, Being Absent
* No Love Like That of the Soule
* Upon the Lady Persalls Parting with Her Daughter Without Teares
* On Faire Mrs Hall Dying in Her Prime
* To Sir William and My Lady Persall uppon the Death of Their Little Franke
* To Cannall, in Mourning
* To the Lady Southcot, on Her Wedding-Day
* To Sir William and My Lady Persall, upon the Death of Theire and Our Deare Mall
* To the Lady Elizabeth Thimelby, on New-Yeares-Day, 1655, Looking Dayly for Her Sonne from Travaile
* An Epitaph on a Sweet Little Boy of Sir William Persall
Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston
* To the Most Incomparable Lady, Mrs Catherine Gage, upon St Mary Magdalen's Not Finding Our Saviour in the Sepulchre
* Concealed Love ("Deare love…")
* The Despairing Lover
* A Song ("All the flatteries of fate…")
* Cruelty in Love
* The Power of Love
* Despair
* The Vicissitudes of Love
* To a Lady with a Fine Voice
* Constancy
* The Tormented Lover
* A Moral Song
* A Dialogue
* To Phillis ("Phillis, though thy powerfull charmes…")
* Damon
* The Dying Lover
* A Fragment
* To Phillis ("Oh, Phillis, would the Gods decree…")
* A Dirge
* A Song ("Now that the spring…")
* Another ("The delights of the bottle…")
* To Sleep ("Care-charming Sleepe…")
* To Hope
* To Flora
* The Lost Mistress
* Dispaire ("Noe, noe, 'tis in vaine…")
* The Broken Hart
* The Death of Amintas
* Inconstancy
* The Witches Song
* Another ("Echo shrill…")
* Concealed Love ("I feed a flame within…")
* To Cloris
* To Daphne
* To Dorinda
* Strephon
* A Confession
* A Thought on Human Life
* On Phillis
* The Pleasures of Madness
* Dispaire ("How severe is fate…")
* A Storme
* The Royal Exile
* To Love
* Eugenia
* Pompey's Ghost
* The Royal Nun
* A Scotch Ballad
* Another ("Twa bonny lads…")
* A Ballad
* To the Tune of "Robin Good Fellow
* Mopsus and Marina
* Witty Mr Henningam's Song
* Unperishable Love
* Mirtillo
* On His Mistresse Going a Voyage
* Phillis
* The Constant Lover
* The Irresistible Beauty
* Philander and Phillis
* The Ambitious Swain
* Concealed Love ("My life is now a burden grown…")
* The True Use of Power and Riches
* A Willing Delusion
* Lavinia
* The Same
* Belinda
* What Is Life without Love?
* Mars and Cupid
* The Power of Beauty
* The Jealous Lover
Miscellaneous Poems
* On the Marriage of the Fair and Vertuous Lady, Mrs Anastasia Stafford
* A Dreame
* Celia
* For Love
* Mr Waller, When He Was at Sea
* Ephelia
* An Epistle, in Answer to Ephelia
* On Saint Catherines Day
* To My Honord Cosen, Mr Henry Somerset, on New Year's Day
* To My Most Honord Cosen, Mrs Somerset, on the Unjust Censure Past upon My Poore Marcelia
* Upon Mrs E. T.'s Quere by Her Eyes, Why I Was Troubled?
* On the World
* On Time
* Upon Mr Abraham Cowley's Retirement
* On Solitude
* Life
* Conscience
* A Pastoral Protest of Love, by Damon to Stella
* To a Lady, Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her?
* The Soldier's Song
* On Melancholy
* A Song ("Ah! fading joy!")
* A Domesday Thought
* The Immortality of Poesie. To Envy
* Cupio Dissolvi. St Paule
* To Mrs Constance Aston
* To Mr Ed. Thimelby, That Unity Is No Argument for the Forehead Against the Eyes
* To My Most Honoured Cosen, Mrs E. C. on New Yeare's Day
* Ps. 120. v. 4
* To a Gentleman, That Courted Several Ladys
* On the Translation of the House of Loretto
* The Perfect Lover
* Cruelty
* To Mr Nevill, at His Departure
* To My Cosen Aston and His Lady, Excusing My Want of a Wedding Garment, at the Celebration of Their Marriage
* On Argalus and Parthenia
* To Mrs Gertrude Aston's Happy Condition When with Mrs Eliza Thimelby
* On the Death of My Dear Sister, Mrs Kath. Aston; Known by the Name of "Good Love"
* An Epitaph
* To Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, on the Happy Birth of the Princess Catherina Laura
* From a Sick Poetesse to Mrs St George, on Her Feeding the Swans
* To Mr Caril, Perswading Him upon the Death of Card. F. to Leave the Court
* The Recantation
* The Poore New Ye Are's Gift of Wishes Cobled Together
* To Sleep ("Sleep, the best ease…")
* The Golden Mean
* Rusticatio Religiosi in Vacantiis
* To Mrs E. T. Saying She Could Not be Affraide of My Ghost
* The Fairies' Song
* A Song for Drinking
* A Song for Love
* To the Right Honourable Walter Lord Aston and His Lady, upon Their 24th Yeare of Happy Marriage
* A Contemplation upon the Shortness and Shallowness of Human Knowledge
* The Dirge
* Life a Preparation for Eternity
* On Friendship
* Retirement
* On the Death of My Deare Sister, C. A.
Notes
* Notes to the Tixall Poetry
* Notes to the Honourable Mrs Henry Thimelby's Poems
* Notes to the Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston
* Notes to the Miscellaneous Poems
* Appendix
Errata.
Preface, p. xxxix, l. 18, read light.
| Poetry, | p. 212, l. 4, for corn read coin. |
| | p. 217, l. 20, read, In love, but love and humblenes? |
| From 239, down to 249, the paging is wrong, but nothing is omitted. ||
| | p. 3(2)46, l. last, for I bear, read Bear. |
Lately Published,
The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler, Knight-Banneret. Edited by Arthur Clifford, Esq. To which is added a Memoir of the Life of Sir Ralph Sadler, with Historical Notes; by Walter Scott, Esq. 2 vol. 4to. With Portraits, Autographs, and other Embellishments. 5l. 5s. boards.
A few Copies on Large Paper, in 3 vol. 4to, price 81. 8s.
All these important State Papers, excepting those referring to the earliest of the Four Periods, are now laid before the Public for the first time. They are published from the Originals, which have been preserved in the family of Thomas Clifford, Esq. of Tixall, in the county of Stafford, whose mother, the Hon. Barbara Aston, represented Gertrude Sadler, Lady Aston, grand-daughter and sole heiress of Sir Ralph Sadler.
The Collection consists of four separate Sets of Letters, relating almost entirely to the affairs of Scotland; the First, on the negociation for disuniting that kingdom from France, and from the Family Alliance against England; the Second, on the Scottish Reformation; the Third, on the Rebellion in the North of England in 1569; and the Last, on the subject of Queen Mary. In these transactions Sir Ralph Sadler, as Ambassador from England, bore an important part, and displayed great abilities as a Statesman. His Letters, and State Papers, throw a strong light on one of the most interesting periods in British History.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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