Born, 1763. | Died, 18 Dec., 1855.
Mr. Rogers’s poem The Pleasures of Memory, published in 1792, was imitated in a small volume published in 1812, entitled The Pains of Memory, a Poem, in two books, by Peregrine Bingham. London, W. Anderson, 1812.
ON A TEAR.
Oh! that the chemist’s magic art
Could crystalize this sacred treasure!
Long should it glitter near my heart!
A secret source of pensive pleasure.
The little brilliant, ere it fell,
Its lustre caught from Chloe’s eye;
Then, trembling left its coral cell—