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George Saville Carey

1743–1807

George Saville Carey (1743–1807) was an English comic writer, lecturer and entertainer, and a writer of songs, epigrams and occasional verse.

He was the son of the poet and songwriter Henry Carey.

Poems (51)

  1. An Evening's Walk
  2. The Peasant and Ant: A Fable
  3. The Apology
  4. Sunday: A Poem
  5. Epigram on Lord G—
  6. An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Richard Cross
  7. A Poor Man's Queries: Addressed to His Friend
  8. The Fatal Incident
  9. A Pastoral, Written on the Death of Mr. C. Churchill and Mr. R. Lloyd
  10. Momus: A Poem
  11. The Victim: A Poem
  12. Young Jockey of the Carron Side
  13. Song ("Sure Wolly will never return back again")
  14. Song ("The morn was fair, and Phoebus peept")
  15. Song ("Whene'er my Patty trips the green")
  16. A Dialogue Song
  17. To a Friend in the Country ("Spite of the hub-bub of the town")
  18. Verses on a Distressed Family, That Were Ruined by a Great Man's Promise
  19. On Mr. and Mrs. Prince's Birth-days
  20. Epigram on Dr. Weezle
  21. On the Death of Lord Eglington
  22. The Bird's Nest: A Fable
  23. The Petticoat: A New Song
  24. The Pretty Maid of Chelmsford
  25. Thorney, Laben, and Dolein: A Pastoral
  26. The Happy Husband: A Song
  27. To a Friend in the Country ("Since to the town you've bid a long adieu")
  28. Song ("Talk not of books, of dress, of riches")
  29. An Epistle to a Friend ("I cannot yet, say what you will")
  30. An Epistle to a Friend ("May I not hope your patience will endure")
  31. An Allegory on Friendship
  32. The Banks of Chelmer
  33. The First of May
  34. An Epistle to a Friend ("I said I'd write, but did not dream")
  35. On the Death of Bonnell Thornton, Esq.
  36. The Fopling and the Ewe: A Fable
  37. An Epigram on an Ugly Lady
  38. To a Friend ("I wrote a letter long ago")
  39. On Receiving Some Complimentary Verses from a Lady
  40. Epigram on Having Received a Compliment on Account of the Publication of a New Burletta
  41. Epigram on a Drunken Man and a Fish-Woman
  42. Epigram on a Modern Gentleman
  43. On Pleasure
  44. Epigram on a Tippler
  45. The Cobler and his Creditors
  46. Epigram on a Female Virago and Actress
  47. Epigram on a Spendthrift and a Hypocrite
  48. The Banks of Yarrow: In Imitation of a Scotch Ballad
  49. Epigram on Le Fevre's Curing the Gout
  50. Epigram on a Lady Who Had Left the Picture of Her Favourite Child at the Frame-maker's
  51. Epigram ("Are you a Bard, cry'd Doll? I thought to see")

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