The flower-piece, a collection of modern poems [T213573]

DMI number:

1323

Publication Date:

1780

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T213573

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB127308265

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

THE | FLOWER-PIECE, | A | COLLECTION | OF | MODERN POEMS. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | LONDON: | Printed for the AUTHOR. | MDCCLXXX.

Epigraph:

[i]Collecta revirescunt.[/i]

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Comments:

Contents: prose pp. 1-7, 24-27, 35-41, 46-47, 49-57, 90-93, 95, 153-155, 169-170,

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: contents pp. [iii]-v; advertisement [1p.] Back matter: advertisement [1p.]

Related Miscellanies

Title:

The fugitive miscellany: a collection of fugitive pieces in prose and verse [vol 2] [T118867] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1775

ESTC No:

T118867

Volume:

2 of 2

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

John Almon

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

See ESTC record.

Content/Publication

First Line:

Why so pensive this morning when all things are gay

Page No:

pp.8-12

Poem Title:

A Tete A Tete Dialogue On The Fete De Champetre.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh Boston late with every pleasure crowned

Page No:

pp.12-23

Poem Title:

The Times. An Elegy. Written In America, 1775.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twixt Death and Schomberg the other day

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

Death And The Doctor...To Dr. Schomberg, of Bath.

Attribution:

By Paul Whitehead, Esq.

Attributed To:

Paul Whitehead

First Line:

What ecstasies her bosom fire

Page No:

pp.28-30

Poem Title:

To a Lady, On Her Passion For Old China.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To Schomberg quoth Death I your patient will have

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

By The Same [i.e. Whitehead]

Attributed To:

Paul Whitehead

First Line:

Near half an age with every good man's praise

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

An Epitaph On The Monument Of The Late Worthy And Rev. Mr. Beighton, Of Egham, Who Was Vicar Of That Place Forty-Five Years.

Attribution:

D. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Tell me the meaning you who can

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

Upon Seeing Mr. Taylor's Pictures, Of Bath, And Hearing A Connoisseur Swear That "They Were Finely Painted For A Gentleman."

Attribution:

Written By D. Garrick, Esq.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Immortal Wolfe sculptor thy laureled bust

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

On General Wolf.

Attribution:

By Sir William Draper, Esq.

Attributed To:

Sir William Draper

First Line:

After much hiding sir and dodging

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

Epistle From Mr. Geo. Lacy. To The Rev. Mr. Boudry.

Attribution:

Mr. Geo. Lacy.

Attributed To:

George Lacy

First Line:

Come powers of taste nor while the vacant hours

Page No:

pp.34-35

Poem Title:

On The Alterations In St. James's Park.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Soft inmate of the love fraught breast

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

Sonnet: To Two Redbreasts Who Were Building, But On Sight Of The Author, Fled.

Attribution:

Philo.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Freedom's charms alike engage

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

On Freedom.

Attribution:

By The Late Dr. Hawkesworth.

Attributed To:

John Hawkesworth

First Line:

Friendship is the joy of reason

Page No:

p.42

Poem Title:

On Friendship.

Attribution:

By The Late Dr. Hawkesworth.

Attributed To:

John Hawkesworth

First Line:

Her comic vein had every charm to please

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

Inscription Upon The Monument of Mrs. Pritchard, Which Was Put Up Last Wednesday, At The East End Of Wesminster Abbey, Next To Shakespeare, And Opposite To Handel's Monument.

Attribution:

W. Whitehead, P. L.

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Here lies lord Chesterfield the wit

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

Epigraph on the late Lord Chesterfield.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies that wretched favourite ridden thing

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

Epitaph On Lewis XIII.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

In days of old ere Ampthill towers were seen

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

said to be written by Mr. Horace W--e.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If fate deceive not where this stone is lain

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

[Motto To The Scotch Stone Under The Coronation Chair At Westminster ('Ni fallit, Scoti, quorumq; locatum, | Invenient lapidem, regnare tenentur ibidem')] In English thus

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Says Celia to a reverend dean

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Chloe's charms are so refined

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

Chloe.

Attribution:

T. H. I.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If when the breast is rent with pain

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

To Miss Woffington.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In the isle of Great Britain a laurel once grew

Page No:

pp.58-60

Poem Title:

The Gardener's Congress On Colley Cibber's Being Appointed Poet Laureat.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Turned out of Honiton

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Twas on the bank of that fair tide

Page No:

pp.61-62

Poem Title:

The Voice of Truth. An Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah dear Clarinda we are undone

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

Extempore Apology To Mrs. Clare Byrne, For A Mistake At Whist, Which Lost The Game.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Within the circle of this magic ring

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

To My Mother, With Her Wedding Ring.

Attribution:

By My Father.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis said of monkeys that their race can talk

Page No:

pp.64-71

Poem Title:

The Colony Of Beauty, An Allegorical Poem.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Vice once with virtue did engage

Page No:

pp.72-78

Poem Title:

The Wife And The Nurse: A Ballad. Written In 1743.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Amongst the daughters of great Jove

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

Ode To Health, Inscribed To Miss --, Since Mrs. -- Southampton, July 1765.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This is my last will | I insist on it still

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

The Following Is The Singular Will Of Mr. William Hickington, Whose Death Was Lately Mentioned In The York Courant, And Which Has Been Proved In The Deanry Court.

Attribution:

W. Hickington.

Attributed To:

William Hickington

First Line:

In Chatworth's groves and vales I've seen

Page No:

p.82

Poem Title:

Lines Written In A Seat In The Garden Of His Grace The Duke Of Devonshire, At Chatsworth.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Few words are best I wish you well

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

To Mr. C. St. James's Place. London, Octocer [sic] 22.

Attribution:

Verses By Pope. Not In His Works.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

See Nerissa the young and the fair

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Goodman Death | To please his palate

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

the late Alexander Pope, Esq;

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

What I am going to bequeath

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

The Underwritten Lines Are Copied From The Original Will Of The Late Nathaniel Lloyd, Esq. Who Died Lately At His Seat At Twickenham.

Attribution:

Nathaniel Lloyd

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lloyd

First Line:

In vain ye seek the warmer sky

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

Ode To Health. Written March 10, 1775.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Tis done the well earned wages freely paid

Page No:

pp.88-89

Poem Title:

Written On Saturday Night.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Loud blew the winds and from the shore

Page No:

pp.89-90

Poem Title:

Translation Of A Fragment Of Simonides.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Thee on thy radiant throne sublime

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

Sappho's Ode To Venus.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Mistaken fair in vain you try

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

To A Lady Who Was Writing A Defiance To Cupid In Verse.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Once on a time it came to pass

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

Fables Of The Ass, Nightingale, And Kid.

Attribution:

By The Late Lord E--.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Feign would I kind and learned friend

Page No:

pp.97-98

Poem Title:

Veres To The Author's Tutor At C. C. C. Oxon. From The Country.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In vain poor sable son of woe

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

On A Black Marble Statue Of A Slave, Standing At The Porch Of One Of The Inns Of Court.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When in the opening of the youthful year

Page No:

pp.98-99

Poem Title:

The Three First Stanzas Of The Twenty-Fourth Canto Of Dante's Inferna Made Into A Song. In Imitation Of The Earl Of Surry's Stile.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Swift say wouldst thou refuse with me

Page No:

pp.100-101

Poem Title:

The Sixth Ode Of The Second Book Of Horace, Imitated. Addressed To Dean Swift, Esq; Of Castle Ricard In Ireland. Written In The Year 1747.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me o muse if aught you know

Page No:

pp.102-103

Poem Title:

Verses Written At Bath, On The New Game of E and O.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hence dull lethargic peace

Page No:

pp.104-110

Poem Title:

Il Bellicoso.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mason.

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Kind nature with a mother's joys

Page No:

pp.110-114

Poem Title:

The Pleasures of the Mind.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If Dodington will condescend

Page No:

pp.114-115

Poem Title:

An Invitation To The Right Hon. George Dodington, Esq; ... In Allusion To Horace, B. I. Epist. 5.

Attribution:

By The Late Mr. Christopher Pitt.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

Among the well bred natives of our isle

Page No:

pp.115-116

Poem Title:

To My Brother Mr. Christopher Pitt, An Epistle; On His Having A Fit Of The Gout.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here sleeps what once was beauty once was grace

Page No:

pp.116-117

Poem Title:

Epitaph On Miss Drummond, Daughter Of The Archbishop Of York.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mason.

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Cries Damon teazed by dearest life

Page No:

p.117

Poem Title:

A Song. Written In 1765.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Health pleasure's handmaid loves my beech crowned hill

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

Health.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Eating a mitey cheese elate with pride

Page No:

p.119

Poem Title:

[Epigram. ('Damon dit en mangeant d'un Chester plein de mites')]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The Ionian quarter of the Cyprian shore

Page No:

pp.119-121

Poem Title:

The Court Of Venus. From Claudian. Being Part Of The Epithalamium On The Marriage Of The Emperor Honorius With Maria, The Daughter Of Stilicho.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now six and thirty rapid years are fled

Page No:

pp.121-122

Poem Title:

On His Birth-Day.

Attribution:

I. H. Browne, Esq;

Attributed To:

Isaac Hawkins Browne

First Line:

There lived in York an age ago

Page No:

pp.122-124

Poem Title:

The Choice Of A Wife By Cheese.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ralph Clod a yeoman of the west

Page No:

pp.124-125

Poem Title:

The Pair of Beasts. A Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Enchanting nymph of heavenly birth

Page No:

pp.125-127

Poem Title:

On Beauty.

Attribution:

By Lord P--n.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Phoebus was amorous and longed to be rude

Page No:

p.125

Poem Title:

An Epigram On Modern Marriages.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Avert proud death thy lifted spear

Page No:

pp.128-129

Poem Title:

On Seeing The Figure Of Death In A Dream.

Attribution:

By Dr. Harington.

Attributed To:

Dr Henry Harington

First Line:

Alwhyle ye drinke midst age and ache ybent

Page No:

p.129

Poem Title:

Written In The Pump-Room At Bath.

Attribution:

Edgar.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let the keen sportsman rising with the dawn

Page No:

pp.130-133

Poem Title:

From Partridge-Shooting. An Eclogue.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Oft when I've seen the new fledged morn arise

Page No:

pp.134-140

Poem Title:

The Sportsman.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Illustrious Bladud best of kings

Page No:

pp.141-142

Poem Title:

New-Year Ode, To His Most Excellent Majesty King Bladud of Bath.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

I cannot eat but little meat

Page No:

pp.142-144

Poem Title:

Song, Written About Two Hundred And Fifty Hears Ago.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say image by what sculptor's hand

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

From The Greek Of Posidippus: A Dialogue. The Traveller And Statue Of Opportunity.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Full humble is my prayer I ween

Page No:

p.145

Poem Title:

An Humble Prayer.

Attribution:

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First Line:

What cheerful sounds salute our ears

Page No:

pp.146-147

Poem Title:

The Triumph Of Ceres: Or The Harvest-Home. To The Tune Of "What Beauteous Scenes Inchant My Sight!".

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Parret whose artless windings lead

Page No:

pp.147-148

Poem Title:

To The Parret.

Attribution:

E. L. N.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In times when gloomy superstition reigned

Page No:

pp.149-150

Poem Title:

Prologue To The Plays At H--. Acted November 24th And 25th, 1774. Spoken By Lord P--.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My golden locks time hath to silver turned

Page No:

pp.151-152

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Sir Henry Lea.

Attributed To:

Henry Lea

First Line:

The mimic form on the other side

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

Lines...Upon The Back Of His Own Picture, Which Was Sent Lately To A Gentleman Of The University Of Oxford.

Attribution:

Written By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

The quality of mercy is not stained

Page No:

p.153

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Shakespear.

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

A youth the meanest of the muse's train

Page No:

pp.156-162

Poem Title:

To The King.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If yet the mole that heaves thy dirty breast

Page No:

pp.163-164

Poem Title:

To Him Only Who Feels The Justness Of The Character.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While blooming youth and gay delight

Page No:

pp.164-166

Poem Title:

To Caelia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Canst thou shepherd canst thou tell

Page No:

pp.166-167

Poem Title:

The Nymph's Question.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For once ye muses chaste as fair

Page No:

pp.167-168

Poem Title:

Verses Occasioned By A Rape On An Irish Captain.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Checquered with plumes of various dies

Page No:

p.168

Poem Title:

On A Lady's Muff.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Read or oh say does some amorous fair

Page No:

pp.170-181

Poem Title:

An Epistle From Obera, Queen of Otaheite, to Joseph Banks.

Attribution:

Translated by T. Q. Z. Esq. Professor of The Otaheite Language in Dublin

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Welcome fair nymph from Hockerill's gloomy plains

Page No:

pp.181-187

Poem Title:

The Orange-Girl At The Foote To Sally Harris: Or, The Town To The Country Pomona. An Heroic Epistle.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

If yet enslaved by vice there rest

Page No:

pp.187-190

Poem Title:

The Answer. To The Right Hon. Mr. --.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

For me my fair a wreathe has wove

Page No:

pp.190-191

Poem Title:

From The Spanish.

Attribution:

By Mr. Garrick.

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Behold the Cerberus the Atlantic plow

Page No:

p.191

Poem Title:

Impromptu. On The Sailing Of The Cerberus, With The Three General Officers On The American Expedition.

Attribution:

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