The Poetical Calendar. Vol. XII. For December. [T146608]
- DMI number:
- 1104
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- Volume Number:
- 12 of 12
- ESTC number:
- T146608 [vol XII]
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW113915607
- Full Title:
- THE | POETICAL CALENDAR. | CONTAINING | A COLLECTION | Of scarce and valuable | PIECES OF POETRY: | With Variety of | ORIGINALS AND TRANSLATIONS, | BY THE MOST EMINENT HANDS. | Written and Selected | By FRANCIS FAWKES, M. A. | And WILLIAM WOTY. | IN TWELVE VOLUMES. | LONDON: | Printed by DRYDEN LEACH; | For J. COOTE, at the King's Arms, in Pater-noster-Row. | MDCCLXIII.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of literary verse and Periodical miscellany
- Format:
- Octavo
- Comments:
- NOTE: ECCO copy has smudge p. 61. Please check wording of first line! Contents: pp. 34, 36: Latin verse "Ad Ornatissimam Puellam. By Dr. Lowth." [translated pp. 35, 37.] p. 107, pp. 108-112: Prose account of the life of William Collins pp. 113-120: General Index to all 12 volumes
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Containing a collection of scarce and valuable pieces of poetry: With variety of originals and translations, by the most eminent hands. [T146608]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T146608 [vol I]
- Volume:
- 1 of 12
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. II. For February. [T146608]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T146608 [vol II]
- Volume:
- 2 of 12
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. VI. For June. [T146608]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T146608 [vol VI]
- Volume:
- 6 of 12
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. VII. For July. [T146608]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T146608 [vol VII]
- Volume:
- 7 of 12
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. X. For October. [T146608]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T146608 [vol X]
- Volume:
- 10 of 12
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. XI. For November. [T146608]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T146608 [vol XI]
- Volume:
- 11 of 12
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. III. For March. [T146608] [gb]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T146608 [vol III]
- Volume:
- 3 of 12
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. IV. For April. [T146608] [gb]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T146608 [vol IV]
- Volume:
- 4 of 12
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. IX. For September. [T146608] [gb]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T146608 [vol IX]
- Volume:
- 9 of 12
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Poetical Calendar. Vol. V. For May. [T146608] [gb]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T146608 [vol V]
- Volume:
- 5 of 12
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Francis Fawkes
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Editor:
- William Woty
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Printer:
- Dryden II Leach
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- BBTI
- Publisher:
- John Coote
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- BBTI
- First Line:
- Last of all the months severest of them all
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- December.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From mountains of eternal snow
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Winter.
- Attribution:
- By a Gentleman of Cambridge.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What though thou comest in sable mantle clad
- Page No:
- pp.5-7
- Poem Title:
- To Winter.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Woty.
- Attributed To:
- William Woty
- First Line:
- Hail eldest of the monthly train
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- On the Fifth of December, Being the Birth-Day of a Beautiful Young Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The festive roar of laughter the warm glow
- Page No:
- pp.9-19
- Poem Title:
- Death. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- By the Late Charles Emily, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Charles Emily
- First Line:
- Thy justice heavenly king and that great day
- Page No:
- pp.20-30
- Poem Title:
- The Day of Judgement.
- Attribution:
- By R. Glynn, M.D.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Glynn [later Clobery]
- First Line:
- Lo on yon promontory's pendent brow
- Page No:
- pp.31-33
- Poem Title:
- To Fame. An Ode.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No longer seek the needless aid
- Page No:
- pp.35, 37
- Poem Title:
- The Same Translated. [i.e. Ad Ornatissimam Puellam.]
- Attribution:
- By William Duncombe, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- William DuncombeRobert Lowth
- First Line:
- So oft indulged the philosophic muse
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- The Faculties of the Soul, an Argument of Its Immortality.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. William Duncombe, Esq.]
- Attributed To:
- William Duncombe
- First Line:
- The active soul by which man lives and moves
- Page No:
- pp.39-42
- Poem Title:
- The Faculties of the Soul.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who reads Lost Paradise the fall
- Page No:
- pp.43-44
- Poem Title:
- Dr. Samuel Barrow's Latin Verses, Prefixed to Milton's Paradise Lost, Translated.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- William Duncombe
- First Line:
- Prelate whose steady hand and watchful eye
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet to His Grace Tho. Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Tho. Edwards.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Edwards
- First Line:
- O take o keep me ever blessed domains
- Page No:
- pp.46-52
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle of M. de Voltaire, Upon His Arrival at His Estate Near the Lake of Geneva, in March, MDCCLV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The deeds of discord or in prose or in rhyme
- Page No:
- pp.53-59
- Poem Title:
- Concord.
- Attribution:
- By James Harris, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- James Harris
- First Line:
- Stripped to the naked soul escaped from clay
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- To the Author of a Panegyric on Mrs. Grace Butler, Who Died Aged LXXXVI.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Here shunning idleness at once and praise
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- Inscription on a Grotto of Shells at Crux-Easton, the Work of Nine Young Ladies.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Pope.]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- What are the falling rills the pendent shades
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- Verses by Mr. Pope, on Reading a Poem, Entitled "A Fit of the Spleen," by Dr. Ibbott*.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- With no poetic ardour fired
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- Verses Left By Mr. Pope, on his Lying in the Same Bed Which Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Used at Atterbury, a Seat of the Duke of Argyle's, in Oxfordshire, July IX, MDCCXXXIX.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Mindless of fate in these low vile abodes
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- To His Grace the Duke of Argyle, Upon Reading the Preamble to the Patent Creating Him Duke of Greenwich.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- Hail bright eyed harbinger of sacred light
- Page No:
- pp.65-68
- Poem Title:
- A Morning Elegy*.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Abr. Portal [see note]
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Portal
- First Line:
- Welcome thou sober evening calm and grey
- Page No:
- pp.69-72
- Poem Title:
- An Evening Elegy.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Abr. Portal [see note]
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Portal
- First Line:
- Friendship how sweet how comely dost thou seem
- Page No:
- pp.72-74
- Poem Title:
- Friendship. Attempted After the Manner of Cowley.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Abr. Portal [see note]
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Portal
- First Line:
- O could my muse with gentle Gay
- Page No:
- pp.75-80
- Poem Title:
- Eliza's Wedding-Day. An Eclogue.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Abr. Portal [see note]
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Portal
- First Line:
- Ladies the ends for which we meet tonight
- Page No:
- pp.81-82
- Poem Title:
- Prologue.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair crystal fount whose peaceful bed
- Page No:
- pp.83-84
- Poem Title:
- Pompilia. An Ode.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Get along sir I hate you that's flat
- Page No:
- pp.84-85
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue, Between a Gentleman and a Lady, at a Ball at Croydon.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whenever superior force defies
- Page No:
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- An Apology for Running Away.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And must thou leave us Nancy
- Page No:
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- Song to a Tune in The Parting Lovers.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me where the weakness lies
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Time flies Nannette to seal our doom
- Page No:
- pp.89-90
- Poem Title:
- To Nannette.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Madam to you since fortune proves so kind
- Page No:
- p.90
- Poem Title:
- To a Lady, on Her Obtaining a Prize in the Lottery.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here doomed the sabbath of the grave to keep
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on an Infant.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One summer's day invited by the shade
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- Written at Venlo During the Late War: on a Beautiful Child Being Killed by the Fall of a Stone from the Steeple.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On Edward's brow no laurels cast a shade
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- An Inscription Designed for the Statue of Edward the Sixth in St. Thomas's Hospital.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When fierce Bellona doubtful held the scale
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- The Death of Otho.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Detested deed what rites shall purge the land
- Page No:
- p.93
- Poem Title:
- On a Late Parricide.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The Latian dame a prison's nightly guest
- Page No:
- p.93
- Poem Title:
- The Roman Charity, in Contrast to the Foregoing. [i.e. "On a Late Parricide"]
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cassandra from her spark received
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- Epigram.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Old Ayres subpoenaed to the grave
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- Another. [i.e. another epigram]
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Death by a conduct strange and new
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- On One Who Died of the Hyp.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies a man behold what faith can do
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on a Man who Died Suddenly at Church.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On wings of winds his journey Rumor sped
- Page No:
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- Epigram on the False Report of Mrs. H___y's Death.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- That power supreme who taught me first to breathe
- Page No:
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph Intended for My Own Tomb-Stone.
- Attribution:
- By E.R.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Shall foreign lands for Pomfret wake the lyre
- Page No:
- pp.97-101
- Poem Title:
- Gratitude. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- By William Thompson, M.A. Late Fellow of Queen's College.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O night dark night wrapped round with Stygian gloom
- Page No:
- pp.102-103
- Poem Title:
- More Night Thoughts.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. W.
- Attributed To:
- William Whitehead
- First Line:
- In yonder grove a druid lies
- Page No:
- pp.104-106
- Poem Title:
- Ode on the Death of Mr. James Thomson.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. William Collins*
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
- First Line:
- A bard there dwelt more fat than bard beseems
- Page No:
- p.106
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lord L____ [see note]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cease fair Aurelia cease to mourn
- Page No:
- p.108
- Poem Title:
- To Miss Aurelia C____r, on her Weeping at her Sister's Wedding
- Attribution:
- [William Collins]
- Attributed To:
- William Collins
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