Restoration & Augustan

Sir John Henry Moore

1756–1780


Sir John Henry Moore (1756–1780) was an English baronet and poet. His Poetical Trifles (1778) appeared anonymously and was reprinted several times; his poems were collected in Park's edition of the British Poets (1808).

He is remembered for light verse, tales and songs, and for an Elegy Written in a College Library.

  1. Indeed, my Celia, 'tis in vain

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