'Verses / Spencer' 'Too late I staid, forgive the crime; /...' [transcript of poem]
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
[transcribed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]:
'If guardian Powers preside above
Who still extend to virtuous Love
A tutelary care
The Virgins bosom?s earliest dole
The first born Passion of the soul
Must find protection there.
Never can noon's maturer ray
That charm of orient light display,
Which morning suns impart
So can no later passion prove
That glow which gilds the dawn of Love
The day spring of the hearts?
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb
'Poetry Composed by Llewelyn on the Death of his Greyhound' 'The Spearman [spearmen in original] heard the bugle sound/...'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux
Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 28 November 1807:
'I attribute my cold to going to Jermyn Street [grandmother's London residence] last night in a thick fog.
'I found Mr. Spencer and Mr. Preedy there. William Spencer just come to town in a violent hurry as he says he is going to have a share in Drury Lane [...] He was brilliant with rouge and spirits, but must have been rather disappointed in his audience's behaviour. I did nothing but blow my nose and wink my eyes; Mr. Preedy had one of his lethargic fits upon him and never had his open for a minute and my grandmother [the Dowager Countess Spencer] was nodding the whole evening in a comfortable nap. He repeated to us however (just as if we had been awake) quantities of his own poetry, of which, by the bye, he is going to publish a small volume, his bookseller having offered him two hundred pound for it, and read us a Latin epitaph he has just written upon the death of poor Mr. Sargent and contrived to introduce in the course of the conversation, all the compliments that have ever been paid him, de part a l'autre for the last twelvemonth.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Spencer Manuscript: Unknown