A collection of poems in two volumes. By several hands [vol 2] [N27941] [ecco]

DMI number:

781

Publication Date:

1751

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

N27941

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116533482

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | IN TWO VOLUMES. | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | [ornament] | DUBLIN: | Printed for P. WILSON, J. EXSHAW, J. ESDALL, | R. JAMES, S. PRICE, and M. WILLIAMSON. | M,DCC,LI.

Place of Publication:

Dublin

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Duodecimo

Bibliographic details:

Half title: [i]DODSLEY[/i]'s | COLLECTION. | VOL. II. | The THIRD EDITION. Several sections have separate title pages.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Contents [2pp]; Advertisement [2pp]

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A collection of poems in two volumes. By several hands [vol 1] [N27941] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1751

ESTC No:

N27941

Volume:

1 of 2

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First Line:

Now had the son of Jove mature attained

Page No:

pp.1-11

Poem Title:

The Choice of Hercules. A Poem.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah me is all our pleasure mixed with woe

Page No:

pp.11-16

Poem Title:

The Education of Achilles.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In days my lord when mother time

Page No:

pp.16-22

Poem Title:

An Epistle from S. J. Esq; in the Country to the Right Hon. the Lord Lovelace in Town. Written in the Year 1735.

Attribution:

from S. J. Esq;

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too plain dear youth these tell-tale eyes

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

Chloe to Strephon. A Song.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. S. J.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Just broke from school pert impudent and raw

Page No:

pp.24-28

Poem Title:

The Modern Fine Gentleman. Written in the Year 1746.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. S. J.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The art of converse how to soothe the soul

Page No:

pp.28-49

Poem Title:

An Essay on Conversation.

Attribution:

By Benjamin Stillingfleet.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Stillingfleet

First Line:

Thou who shalt stop where Thames' translucent wave

Page No:

pp.49-50

Poem Title:

On a Grotto near the Thames, at Twickenham. Compos'd of Marbles, Spars and Minerals.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

If truth can fix thy wavering heart

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

Song. To Sylvia.

Attribution:

By David Garrick, Esq;

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

O thou whose artless free born genius charms

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

To the Author of the Farmer's Letters, which were written in Ireland in the Year of the Rebellion, by Henry Brooke, Esq; 1745.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Garrick]

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Untouched by love unmoved by wit

Page No:

p.52

Poem Title:

Verses Written in Sylvia's Prior.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i. e. Garrick]

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

While here the poet paints the charms

Page No:

p.52

Poem Title:

Verses written in a Book call'd Fables for the Female Sex.

Attribution:

By the Same [i. e. Garrick]

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

Arachne once as poets tell

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

Upon a Lady's Embroidery.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Garrick]

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

As doctor -- musing sate

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

Death and the Doctor. Occasion'd by a Physician's lampooning a Friend of the Author.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Garrick]

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

The goddess of wit and love

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

On the Right Side.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Garrick]

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

The court was met the prisoner brought

Page No:

pp.56-68

Poem Title:

The Trial of Selim the Persian, For divers High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Attribution:

By Mr. Edward Moore.

Attributed To:

Edward Moore

First Line:

Though here my body lies interred

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

On the Left Side.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Garrick]

Attributed To:

David Garrick

First Line:

A myrtle flourished mongst the flowers

Page No:

pp.69-71

Poem Title:

The Marriage of the Myrtle and the Yew. A Fable. To Delia, about to marry beneath herself. 1744.

Attribution:

By --.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Bold was the irreligious hand

Page No:

pp.71-73

Poem Title:

On a Bay-Leaf, pluck'd from Virgil's Tomb, near Naples. 1736.

Attribution:

By the Same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The minutes the hours the days and the years

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

To Chloe. Written on my Birth-Day, 1734.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Stanhope has gained one branch of fame

Page No:

pp.74-75

Poem Title:

The Exception.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Yes all my lord usurp fair honour's name

Page No:

pp.76-88

Poem Title:

Honour. A Poem...Inscribed to the Rt. Hon. the Lord Visc. Lonsdale.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Brown.

Attributed To:

John Brown

First Line:

Ye green haired nymphs whom Pan allows

Page No:

pp.89-91

Poem Title:

Ode to a Water Nymph.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mason.

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Sorrowing I catch the reed and call the muse

Page No:

pp.92-102

Poem Title:

Musaeus: A Monody to the Memory of Mr. Pope, In Imitation of Milton's Lycidas.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mason]

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Fate gave the word the cruel arrow sped

Page No:

pp.103-123

Poem Title:

An Essay on Satire, occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Browne.

Attributed To:

John Brown

First Line:

In measured time | So heaven has willed together with their snows

Page No:

pp.124-130

Poem Title:

A Character of Mr. Pope's Writings. Being An Episode from the Poem call'd Sickness, B. II.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Thomson.

Attributed To:

William Thompson

First Line:

When dark oblivion in her sable cloak

Page No:

pp.130-131

Poem Title:

The Cave of Pope. A Prophecy.

Attribution:

By Mr. Robert Dodsley.

Attributed To:

Robert Dodsley

First Line:

Thy sable bed no pompous heralds raise

Page No:

pp.132-133

Poem Title:

To the Memory of The Rev. James Wilson, M. A. Curate of St. Peter's Dublin.

Attribution:

By Mr. Brooke.

Attributed To:

Henry Brooke

First Line:

Shall boasted pomp the high imperial name

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

To The Memory of Colonel Henry Clements, Who was Killed at the Action near Tournay in May 1745.

Attribution:

By the Same [i. e. Brooke]

Attributed To:

Henry Brooke

First Line:

The solitary bird of night

Page No:

pp. 134-138

Poem Title:

Ode to Wisdom.

Attribution:

By a Lady.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In plaintive sounds that turned to woe

Page No:

pp.138-139

Poem Title:

To the Gentleman, On his intended to cut down a Grove to enlarge his Prospect.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. a lady]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where early Phoebus sheds his milder beams

Page No:

pp.140-157

Poem Title:

Psyche: Or, The Great Metamorphosis. A Poem, written in Imitation of Spenser.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst you Athenia with assiduous toil

Page No:

pp.158-163

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:

p.164

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.164-165

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:

p.165

Poem Title:

Chiswick.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thanks Chloe thy coquetting art

Page No:

pp.166-169

Poem Title:

The Indifferent. From the Italian of Metastasio.

Attribution:

By the Same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When flourished with their state the Athenian name

Page No:

pp.169-183

Poem Title:

An Epistle from Florence. To T. A. Esq; Tutor to the Earl of P------. Written in the Year 1740.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Happy the babe whose natal hour

Page No:

pp.183-187

Poem Title:

The Pleasure of Poetry. An Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Vansittart.

Attributed To:

Robert Vansittart

First Line:

Farewell that liberty our fathers gave

Page No:

pp.193-194

Poem Title:

Love-Elegies. On his falling in Love with Neaera. Elegy I.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Adieu ye walls that guard my cruel fair

Page No:

pp.195-196

Poem Title:

Unable to satisfy the covetous temper of Neaera, he intends to make a campaign, and try, if possible, to forget her. Elegy II.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Should Jove descend in floods of liquid ore

Page No:

pp.196-197

Poem Title:

He upbraids and threatens the avarice of Neaera, and resolves to quit her. Elegy III.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

While calm you sit beneath your secret shade

Page No:

pp.197-199

Poem Title:

To his Friend written under the Confinement of a long Indisposition. Elegy IV.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

With wine more wine deceive thy master's care

Page No:

pp.199-201

Poem Title:

The Lover is at first introduced speaking to his Servant, he afterwards addresses himself to his Mistress, and at last there is a supposed Interview between them. Elegy V.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Thousands would seek the lasting peace of death

Page No:

pp.201-203

Poem Title:

He adjures Delia to pity him by their friendship with Celia who was lately dead. Elegy VI.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Now Delia breathes in woods the fragrant air

Page No:

pp.203-204

Poem Title:

On Delia's being in the country where he supposes she stays to see the harvest. Elegy VII.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Ah what avails thy lover's pious care

Page No:

p.205

Poem Title:

He despairs that he shall ever possess Delia. Elegy VIII.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

He who could first two gentle hearts unbind

Page No:

pp.206-207

Poem Title:

He has lost Delia. Elegy IX.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

This day which saw my Delia's beauty rise

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

On Delia's Birth-day. Elegy X.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

The man who sharpened first the warlike steel

Page No:

pp.209-210

Poem Title:

Against lovers going to war, in which he philosophically prefers love and Delia to the more serious vanities of the world. Elegy XI.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

No second love shall ever my heart surprize

Page No:

pp.210-211

Poem Title:

To Delia. Elegy XII.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Let others boast their heaps of shining gold

Page No:

pp.211-215

Poem Title:

We imagines himself married to Delia, and that content with each other they are retired into the country. Elegy XIII.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

What scenes of bliss my raptured fancy framed

Page No:

pp.215-216

Poem Title:

To Delia. Elegy XIV.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Oh formed alike to serve us and to please

Page No:

pp.217-218

Poem Title:

To Mr. George Grenville. Elegy XV.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Thou for whose view these numbers are designed

Page No:

pp.219-236

Poem Title:

The Battle of the Sexes. A Poem.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Amid the garden's fragrance laid

Page No:

pp.239-241

Poem Title:

Odes on Several Subjects. Ode I. Allusion to Horace.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akinside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

The radiant ruler of the year

Page No:

pp.241-244

Poem Title:

Ode II. On the Winter-Solstoce. M.D.CCXL.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akinside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

O fly tis dire suspicion's mien

Page No:

pp.245-247

Poem Title:

Ode III. Against Suspicion.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akinside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Indeed my Phaedria if to find

Page No:

pp.247-249

Poem Title:

Ode IV. To a Gentleman whose Mistress had married an Old Man.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akinside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

How thick the shades of evening close

Page No:

pp.250-255

Poem Title:

Ode V. Hymn to Chearfulness, The Author Sick.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akinside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Queen of my songs harmonious maid

Page No:

pp.256-257

Poem Title:

Ode VI. On the Absence of the Poetic Inclination.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akinside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

No foolish boy to virtuous fame

Page No:

pp.257-259

Poem Title:

Ode VII. To a Friend, on the Hazard of falling in Love.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akinside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Adieu to Leyden's lonely bound

Page No:

pp.260-263

Poem Title:

Ode VIII. On leaving Holland.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akinside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Thou silent power whose balmy sway

Page No:

pp.263-265

Poem Title:

Ode IX. To Sleep.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akinside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Once more I join the Thespian choir

Page No:

pp.265-269

Poem Title:

Ode X. On Lyric Poetry.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akinside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

Page No:

pp.270-274

Poem Title:

An Elegy written in a Country Church Yard.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nymph of the fount from whose auspicious urn

Page No:

pp.275-292

Poem Title:

An Hymn To The Nymph of Bristol Spring.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Whitehead.

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Hence clamour loving joy be gone

Page No:

pp.293-295

Poem Title:

A Solemn Dirge, Sacred to the Memory of his Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales: As it was sung by Mr. Lowe, Miss Burchell, and others, at Vaux-Hall, London.

Attribution:

Written by Mr. Smart. The Music compos'd by Mr. Worgan, M. B.

Attributed To:

Christopher Smart