A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T101653] [ECCO]

DMI number:

985

Publication Date:

1765

Volume Number:

2 of 6

ESTC number:

T101653

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW3313419609

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | IN SIX VOLUMES. | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | [Ornament] | LONDON: Printed by J. HUGHS, | For J. DODSLEY, in PALL-MALL. | [Short rule] | M DCC LXV.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Other matter:

Index: pp.399-400

Related People

Printer:

J. Hughs

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

James Dodsley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Pope to whose reed beneath the beechen shade

Page No:

pp.5-9

Poem Title:

Uncertainty. Eclogue I. To Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hear Doddington the notes that shepherds sing

Page No:

pp.10-14

Poem Title:

Hope. Eclogue II. To Mr Doddington.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The gods o Walpole give no bliss sincere

Page No:

pp.14-18

Poem Title:

Jealousy. Eclogue. III. To Mr. Edward Walpole.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cobham to thee this rural lay I bring

Page No:

pp.19-22

Poem Title:

Possession. Eclogue IV. To Lord Cobham.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas night and Flavia to her room retired

Page No:

pp.23-25

Poem Title:

Soliloquy Of a Beauty in the Country. Written at Eton-School.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Parent of arts whose skillful hand first taught

Page No:

pp.26-33

Poem Title:

Blenheim. Written at the University of Oxford in the Year 1727.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say dearest friend how roll thy hours away

Page No:

pp.33-39

Poem Title:

To the Reverend Dr. Ayscough at Oxford. Written from Paris in the Year 1728.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou whose friendship is my joy and pride

Page No:

pp.40-43

Poem Title:

To Mr. Poyntz, Ambassador at the Congress of Soissons, in the Year 1728. Written at Paris.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Such is thy form O Poyntz but who shall find

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

Verses to be written under Picture of Mr. Poyntz.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Immortal bard for whom each muse has wove

Page No:

pp.45-48

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr. Pope. From Rome, 1730.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Favourite of Venus and the tuneful nine

Page No:

pp.49-52

Poem Title:

To My Lord--------. In the Year 1730. From Worcestershire.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The counsels of a friend Belinda hear

Page No:

pp.52-58

Poem Title:

Advice to a Lady.

Attribution:

By the Same 1731. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Delia on the plain appears

Page No:

pp.58-59

Poem Title:

Song. Written in the Year 1732.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The heavy hours are almost past

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

Song. Written in the Year 1733.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me my Delia tell me why

Page No:

pp.62-64

Poem Title:

Damon and Delia. In Imitation of Horace and Lydia. Written in the Year 1732.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Parent of blooming flowers and gay desires

Page No:

pp.64-65

Poem Title:

Ode. In Imitation of Pastor Fido. (O Primavera Gioventu del Anno.) Written abroad in 1729.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let others heap of wealth a shining store

Page No:

pp.66-69

Poem Title:

Part of an Elegy of Tibullus Translated. (Divitas alius fulvo sibi congerat Auro.) 1729-30.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say Myra why is gentle love

Page No:

pp.69-70

Poem Title:

Song. Written in the Year 1732.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go Thames and tell the busy town

Page No:

pp.70-71

Poem Title:

Written at Mr. Pope's House at Twickenham, which he had lent to Mrs. Gr--lle. In August 1735.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

None without hope ever loved the brightest fair

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair nature's sweet simplicity

Page No:

p.72

Poem Title:

To Mr. West, at Wickham. Written in the Year 1740.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Once by the muse alone inspired

Page No:

p.73

Poem Title:

To Miss Lucy F-----.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All that of love can be expressed

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

To the Same, with Hammond's Elegies.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To him who in an hour must die

Page No:

p.74

Poem Title:

To the Same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To ease my troubled mind of anxious care

Page No:

pp.75-76

Poem Title:

To the Same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair Venus whose delightful shrine surveys

Page No:

pp.76-77

Poem Title:

A Prayer to Venus in her Temple at Stowe. To the Same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On Thames's bank a gentle youth

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

To the Same. On her pleading want of Time.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your shape your lips your eyes are still the same

Page No:

pp.78-79

Poem Title:

To the Same.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When I think on your truth I doubt you no more

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With me while present may thy lovely eyes

Page No:

p.80

Poem Title:

To the Same with a New Watch.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye sylvan scenes with artless beauty gay

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

An Irregular Ode, written at Wickham, in 1746. To the Same. [i.e. Lucy F—]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At length escaped from every human eye

Page No:

pp.83-96

Poem Title:

To the Memory of the same Lady. A Monody. A. D. 1747.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Made to engage all hearts and charm all eyes

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

Verses, Making Part of an Epitaph on the same Lady.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wise was that Spartan lawgiver of old

Page No:

pp.98-127

Poem Title:

On the Abuse of Travelling. A Canto. In Imitation of Spenser.

Attribution:

By Gilbert West, Esq;

Attributed To:

Gilbert West

First Line:

Hither all ye heavenly powers

Page No:

pp.131-198

Poem Title:

The Institution of the Order of the Garter.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Gilbert West.]

Attributed To:

Gilbert West

First Line:

While you my lord alas amidst a few

Page No:

pp.199-221

Poem Title:

An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.

Attribution:

By ------- Esq;

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Through the wild maze of life's still varying plan

Page No:

pp.221-236

Poem Title:

An Epistle.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Clarinda dearly loved attend

Page No:

pp.236-244

Poem Title:

An Epistle to a Lady.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Heaven in the human breast implants

Page No:

pp.245-247

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pollio wouldst thou condescend

Page No:

pp.247-250

Poem Title:

Epistle to Pollio, from the Hills of Howth in Ireland.

Attribution:

By the Same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Remote from liberty and truth

Page No:

pp.251-254

Poem Title:

An Ode to William Pultney, Esq;

Attribution:

By the Same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lonsdale thou ever honoured name

Page No:

pp.254-257

Poem Title:

An Ode to the Right Honourable the Lord Lonsdale.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gentle idle trifling boy

Page No:

pp.258-259

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On Stowe the muse's happy theme

Page No:

pp.260-261

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too anxious for the public weal

Page No:

pp.262-263

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Is there or do the schoolmen dream

Page No:

pp.266-275

Poem Title:

To Mankind: An Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wearied with indolent repose

Page No:

pp.275-277

Poem Title:

Verses to Camilla.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas when the friendly shade of night

Page No:

pp.277-281

Poem Title:

To Clarissa.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unmarked by trophies of the great and vain

Page No:

p.281

Poem Title:

An Inscription on a Tomb, Raised to the memory of the Author's father, and of others his ancestors.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I loved thee beautiful and kind

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

Epigram I.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since first you knew my amorous smart

Page No:

p.282

Poem Title:

Epigram II.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Among these chiefs of British race

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

Epigram IV.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lie on while my revenge shall be

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

Epigram VI.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My heart still hovering round about you

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

Epigram III.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though cheerful discreet and with freedom well bred

Page No:

p.283

Poem Title:

Epigram V.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Foul with graceless verse

Page No:

pp.284-285

Poem Title:

Epigram IX. On one who first abused and then made love to a Lady.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I swore I loved and you believed

Page No:

p.284

Poem Title:

Epigram VII.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The gentle pen with look demure

Page No:

p.284

Poem Title:

Epigram VIII. On Mrs. Penelope.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She who in secret yields her heart

Page No:

p.285

Poem Title:

Epigram XI.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While Lucy chaste as mountain snows

Page No:

p.285

Poem Title:

Epigram X.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lovely shines thy wedded fair

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

Epigram XIII.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We thought you without titles great

Page No:

p.286

Poem Title:

Epigram XII.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ever busied never employed

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

Epigram XVI.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tom thought a wild profusion great

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

Epigram XIV.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why like a tyrant wilt thou reign

Page No:

p.287

Poem Title:

Epigram XV. To Clarissa.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Vainly hath heaven denounced the woman's woes

Page No:

p.288

Poem Title:

Epigram XVII.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You ask me sir why thus by phantoms awed

Page No:

pp.288-300

Poem Title:

The Danger of Writing Verse. An Epistle. First printed in the Year 1741.

Attribution:

By William Whitehead, Esq;

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

O Charles in absence hear a friend complain

Page No:

pp.301-303

Poem Title:

To the Honourable * * *

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

On old Parnassus the other day

Page No:

pp.304-308

Poem Title:

To Mr. Garrick.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Sly hypocrite was this your aim

Page No:

pp.309-310

Poem Title:

Nature to Dr. Hoadly, On his Comedy of the Suspicious Husband.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

A Grecian youth of talents rare

Page No:

pp.311-313

Poem Title:

The Youth and the Philosopher. A Fable.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Ah friend forbear nor fright the fields

Page No:

pp.313-316

Poem Title:

An Ode to a Gentleman, On his pitching a Tent in his Garden.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Hermes the gamester of the sky

Page No:

pp.316-318

Poem Title:

On a Message-Card in Verse, Sent by a Lady.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Yes I'm in love I feel it now

Page No:

pp.319-320

Poem Title:

The Je ne scai Quoi. A Song.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Ye distant spires ye antique towers

Page No:

pp.320-324

Poem Title:

An Ode On a distant Prospect of Eton College.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Lo where the rosy bosomed hours

Page No:

pp.325-327

Poem Title:

Ode.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Gray.]

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Twas on a lofty vase's side

Page No:

pp.328-330

Poem Title:

Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Gray.]

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Sing we no more of Hymeneal lays

Page No:

pp.331-337

Poem Title:

A Monody On the Death of Queen Caroline.

Attribution:

By Richard West, Esq; Son to the Chancellor of Ireland, and Grandson to Bishop Burnet.

Attributed To:

Richard West

First Line:

Old battle array big with horror is fled

Page No:

pp.338-340

Poem Title:

Imitation I. A New-Year's Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Little tube of mighty power

Page No:

pp.340-341

Poem Title:

Imitation II.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou matured by glad Hesperian suns

Page No:

pp.341-342

Poem Title:

Imitation III.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Critics avaunt tobacco is my theme

Page No:

pp.342-343

Poem Title:

Imitation IV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Blessed leaf whose aromatic gales dispense

Page No:

pp.343-344

Poem Title:

Imitation V.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Boy bring an ounce of freeman's best

Page No:

pp.344-345

Poem Title:

Imitation VI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Charles son of York who on the mercy-seat

Page No:

pp.346-348

Poem Title:

Ode to the Hon. C.Y.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I rural life enjoy the town's your taste

Page No:

pp.348-350

Poem Title:

From Caelia to Cloe.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wherefore was man thus formed with eye sublime

Page No:

pp.350-352

Poem Title:

On a Fit of the Gout.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O ship shall new waves again bear thee to sea

Page No:

p.353

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XIV. Book I. imitated in 1746.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst you Athenia with assiduous toil

Page No:

pp.354-361

Poem Title:

The Female Right to Literature, in a Letter to a young Lady from Florence.

Attribution:

By -----

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Great Homer's birth seven rival cities claim

Page No:

pp.361-362

Poem Title:

On Shakespeare's Monument at Stratford upon Avon.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When fair Serena first I knew

Page No:

pp.362-363

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The potent lord that this bright villa planned

Page No:

pp.363-364

Poem Title:

Chiswick.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thanks Chloe thy coquetting art

Page No:

pp.364-368

Poem Title:

The Indifferent, From the Italian of Metastasio.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thanks dear coquet indulgent cheat

Page No:

pp.368-372

Poem Title:

The Triumph of Indifference. Being the same Ode imitated by an unknown Hand.

Attribution:

by an unknown Hand

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Phoebe thank thy false heart it has fixed my repose

Page No:

pp.372-375

Poem Title:

The Shepherd's Farewel to his Love. Being the same Ode.

Attribution:

Translated by Mr. Roderick.

Attributed To:

Richard Roderick

First Line:

Through the close covert of the shady grove

Page No:

pp.375-377

Poem Title:

Riddle.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Roderick.]

Attributed To:

Richard Roderick

First Line:

Torn from the fruitful spot on which I grew

Page No:

pp.378-380

Poem Title:

Riddle.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e, Mr. Roderick.]

Attributed To:

Richard Roderick

First Line:

My size is large my shape's uncouth

Page No:

pp.380-381

Poem Title:

Riddle.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e, Mr. Roderick.]

Attributed To:

Richard Roderick

First Line:

Lyce at length my vows are heard

Page No:

pp.382-384

Poem Title:

Audivere, Lyce, &c. Hor. Book IV. Ode 13. imitated.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e, Mr. Roderick.]

Attributed To:

Richard Roderick

First Line:

Capricious W- a sonnet needs must have

Page No:

p.385

Poem Title:

A Sonnet. Imitated from the Spanish of Lopez De Vega. Menagiana tom. iv. p.176.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Roderick]

Attributed To:

Richard Roderick

First Line:

O- whom virtue makes the worthy heir

Page No:

p.386

Poem Title:

Sonnet I.

Attribution:

By T. E.

Attributed To:

Thomas Edwards

First Line:

Wisely O C- enjoy the present hour

Page No:

p.387

Poem Title:

Sonnet II.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.386]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O sprung from worthies who with councils wise

Page No:

p.388

Poem Title:

Sonnet III. To F. K. Esq;

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.386]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

C--s I hoped the little heaven shall spare

Page No:

p.389

Poem Title:

Sonnet IV.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.386]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When pensive on that portraiture I gaze

Page No:

p.390

Poem Title:

Sonnet V. On a Family-Picture.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.386]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

R-- who well hast judged the task too hard

Page No:

p.391

Poem Title:

Sonnet VI.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.386]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

C--e with whom my pilot and my guide

Page No:

p.392

Poem Title:

Sonnet VII.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.386]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wo worth the man who in ill hour assayed

Page No:

p.393

Poem Title:

Sonnet VIII. On the Cantos of Spenser's Fairy Queen, lost in the Passage from Ireland.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.386]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Peace to thy ashes to thy memory fame

Page No:

p.394

Poem Title:

Sonnet IX.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.386]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O--- great meed shalt thou receive

Page No:

p.395

Poem Title:

Sonnet X. To the Author of Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St. Paul.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.386]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Young fair and good ah why should young and fair

Page No:

p.396

Poem Title:

Sonnet XI.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.386]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

W- whose dear friendship in the dawning years

Page No:

p.397

Poem Title:

Sonnet XII.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.386]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou who successive in that honoured seat

Page No:

p.398

Poem Title:

Sonnet XIII. To the Right Hon. Mr. -----, with the foregoing Sonnets.

Attribution:

By T. E. [p.386]

Attributed To:

Not attributed