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John Cunningham

1729–1773

John Cunningham was an actor and pastoral poet, born in Dublin, who spent much of his life in the north of England and died at Newcastle in 1773.

Gilfillan prints his ballad May-Eve, or Kate of Aberdeen.

Poems (101)

  1. May-Eve; Or, Kate of Aberdeen
  2. Newcastle Beer
  3. Day: A Pastoral
  4. The Contemplatist: A Night Piece
  5. Content: A Pastoral
  6. With a Present
  7. Corydon: A Pastoral, to the Memory of William Shenstone, Esq.
  8. The Rose and Butterfly: A Fable
  9. Damon and Phebe
  10. A Pastoral Hymn to Janus, on the Birth of the Queen
  11. Stanzas on the Forwardness of Spring
  12. Phillis: A Pastoral Ballad
  13. The Violet
  14. The Narcissus
  15. Pomona: A Pastoral
  16. Fancy: A Song in a Pantomime Entertainment
  17. The Fox and the Cat: A Fable
  18. The Miller: A Ballad
  19. The LVIII. Ode of Anacreon Imitated
  20. To the Hon. Master B—: Sent with a Select Collection of Books
  21. On Seeing W. R. Chetwood Cheerful in a Prison
  22. Melody
  23. The Inscription Imitated
  24. Imitated
  25. Delia: A Pastoral
  26. The Sheep and the Bramble-Bush: A Fable
  27. The Sycamore Shade: A Ballad
  28. The XXXIII. Ode of Anacreon Imitated: To the Swallow
  29. Love and Chastity: A Cantata
  30. Fortune: An Apologue
  31. The Warning
  32. Amphitrion
  33. Kitty Fell
  34. A Man to My Mind
  35. The Toast: A Catch
  36. Holyday Gown
  37. The Hawthorn Bower
  38. An Election Ballad
  39. Another Election Ballad
  40. Another Election Ballad (II)
  41. Stanzas on the Death of His Majesty King George II
  42. A Prologue, Spoke by Mr Frodsham, at York
  43. A Prologue, Spoke at the Opening of an Elegant Little Theatre at Whitby
  44. A Prologue on Opening the Theatre at Whitby, the Ensuing Season
  45. A Prologue, Spoke by Mr Brimyard, in the Character of a Sailor, at North-Shields
  46. An Epilogue, Spoke by Mrs Brooke, at Norwich
  47. A Prologue, Spoke at Edinburgh, on Mrs Bellamy's First Appearance There
  48. A Prologue, Spoke by Mr Diggs, at Edinburgh, to the Muse of Ossian
  49. An Epilogue to the Muse of Ossian
  50. An Epilogue, Spoke by Mrs Bellamy, at Edinburgh, in Character of Lady Fanciful
  51. An Epilogue in Character of Lady Townly, in the Provok'd Husband
  52. An Eulogium on Charity: Spoke at Alnwick
  53. A Prologue, Spoke by Mrs G—, on Reviving the Merchant of Venice
  54. An Epilogue, Spoke by Mrs G—, at Her Benefit
  55. An Epilogue, Design'd to Be Spoke at Alnwick
  56. A Prologue for Some Country Lads, Performing the Devil of a Wife
  57. Prologue to the Recruiting Officer
  58. An Epilogue, Spoke by a Child of Nine Years Old
  59. On Some Busses Being Fitted Out for the Herring Fishery
  60. Ode on the King of Prussia
  61. Ode, Composed for the Birth-Day of the Late Gen. Lord Blakeney
  62. Sent to Miss Bell H—, with a Pair of Buckles
  63. Daphne: A Song
  64. A Song
  65. To Chloe in an ill Humour
  66. The Dance: Anacreontic
  67. To a Young Widow
  68. Fortune to Harlequin, in a Pantomime
  69. A Birth-Day Ode, Performed in Dublin
  70. An Irregular Ode on Music
  71. A Fragment: Part of a Poem Wrote on Miss Bellamy, When in Dublin
  72. On a very young Lady
  73. An Invitation
  74. Fanny of the Dale
  75. To Mr K—
  76. Apollo, to the Company at Harrowgate
  77. A Song (II)
  78. A Song (Sent to Chloe with a Rose)
  79. A Fragment: To Mr Woods, Architect of the Exchange at Liverpool
  80. A Prologue, Spoke by Mr Wallace, on Opening the New Theatre at Newcastle
  81. An Epigram
  82. Another Epigram
  83. A Postscript
  84. A Recantation
  85. To Delia
  86. An Acrostic
  87. Another Acrostic
  88. On Mr Churchill's Death
  89. Apollo, to Mr C— F—, on His Being Satirized by an Ignorant Person
  90. On Seeing J— C—ft, Esq. Abused in a Newspaper
  91. On Hearing David Hume, Esq. Particularly Admired in a Company of Petit Maitres
  92. A Character
  93. Epigraph for Dean Swift's Monument
  94. Epigram
  95. An Apology for a Certain Lady
  96. On Gold
  97. To Chloe, on a Charge of Inconstancy
  98. On Alderman W—: The History of His Life
  99. An Elegy on His Death
  100. From the Author to a Celebrated Methodist Preacher
  101. An Elegy on a Pile of Ruins

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