A collection of the best modern poems [T124388] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 1182
- Publication Date:
- 1771
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T124388
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW110389799
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO BOD BL
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF THE BEST | MODERN POEMS. | [rule] | [ornamant] | [double rule] | PRINTED IN THE YEAR MDCCLXXI. | [PRICE THREE SHILLINGS.]
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Price:
- Three shillings
- Bibliographic details:
- Half title: [ornamental rule] | A | COLLECTION | OF THE BEST | MODERN POEMS. | [ornamental rule]
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Contents [4pp.]
- First Line:
- Some husbands on a winter day
- Page No:
- pp.1-7
- Poem Title:
- The Pig. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Remote from cities in a country town
- Page No:
- pp.8-11
- Poem Title:
- The Lyar: An Heroic Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hirco an old but amorous blade
- Page No:
- pp.12-18
- Poem Title:
- The Leaky Vessel.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When good king Jemmy wore the British crown
- Page No:
- pp.18-20
- Poem Title:
- The Merry Monarch; or Knighthood a Jest.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sir John a country magistrate
- Page No:
- pp.21-23
- Poem Title:
- The Country Justice
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On reading over your proclamation
- Page No:
- pp.23-27
- Poem Title:
- The Power of Scolding, a wonderful Tale
- Attribution:
- by Jack Lovesun
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When infants are born by experience we find
- Page No:
- pp.27-29
- Poem Title:
- The Furniture of a Beau's Mind
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We sage Cartesians who profess
- Page No:
- pp.29-34
- Poem Title:
- The Fair Nun, or Woman an Overmatch for the Devil. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In fruitful Lombardy of yore
- Page No:
- pp.34-48
- Poem Title:
- The Royal Cuckold
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A set of phrases learnt by rote
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- The Furniture of a Woman's Mind
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath a court's luxuriant skies
- Page No:
- pp.51-53
- Poem Title:
- The Mill. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A virtuoso had a mind to see
- Page No:
- pp.53-55
- Poem Title:
- The Incurious. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With envy fraught and malediction
- Page No:
- pp.55-59
- Poem Title:
- Measure for Measure. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy the man the cobler or the bard
- Page No:
- pp.59-61
- Poem Title:
- The Pleasures of Poverty
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The chiming bells from every steeple
- Page No:
- pp.62-66
- Poem Title:
- John, the English Footman, a Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Turn gentle hermit of the dale
- Page No:
- pp.66-71
- Poem Title:
- The Hermit
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy the man who free from noisy sports
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- The Happy Man
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sylvia in days of yore had been
- Page No:
- pp.73-75
- Poem Title:
- The Crooked Stick. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All hail thou pleasing cheerful morn
- Page No:
- pp.75-76
- Poem Title:
- On May-Morning.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh thou whose pinion did overspread the deep
- Page No:
- pp.77-79
- Poem Title:
- The Pleasures of the Night
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold my fair wherever we rove
- Page No:
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- The Winter's Walk
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A farmer once to London went
- Page No:
- pp.81-84
- Poem Title:
- The Farmer's Blunder
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This preacher silent yet severe
- Page No:
- pp.84-86
- Poem Title:
- On seeing a Scull
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Shakespeare's receipt to tame a shrew
- Page No:
- pp.86-90
- Poem Title:
- A new Receipt to tame a Shrew
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair rose whose lively glow the fancy warms
- Page No:
- pp.90-92
- Poem Title:
- The Rose
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let others anxious for a lasting name
- Page No:
- pp.92-94
- Poem Title:
- On Mirth
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Just brought from school pert impudent and raw
- Page No:
- pp.94-97
- Poem Title:
- The Modern Fine Gentleman
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh thou who dwellst upon the bough
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- The Rookery
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Endued with all that could adorn
- Page No:
- pp.98-100
- Poem Title:
- The Lover and the Friend
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Take the gift that I bestow
- Page No:
- p.100
- Poem Title:
- A translation of a little Sonnet wrote by Plato, in his younger time of life, and preserved by Diogenes Lacritius.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O parent of each lovely muse
- Page No:
- pp.101-105
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Fancy
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas when the veil of night overspread the plain
- Page No:
- pp.105-107
- Poem Title:
- The Mouse and Oysters
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas midnight's hour and over the placid deep
- Page No:
- pp.107-110
- Poem Title:
- The Tempest
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though time in haste for ever glides along
- Page No:
- pp.110-114
- Poem Title:
- On Time
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thou whom to counsel is to praise
- Page No:
- pp.115-118
- Poem Title:
- The Female-Drum: or, The Origin of Cards. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why start this case is yours or will be soon
- Page No:
- pp.118-119
- Poem Title:
- Wrote on the Tomb stone where is laid the Skull of a Man
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Blush not ye fair to own me but be wise
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- Wrote on another Tomb-stone where is laid the Skull of a Woman
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tomorrow didst thou say
- Page No:
- pp.120-121
- Poem Title:
- To-morrow
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Well yesterday is passed and cannot be
- Page No:
- pp.121-122
- Poem Title:
- Yesterday
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain poor nymph to please our youthful sight
- Page No:
- pp.122-124
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy to an old Beauty
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Adieu my fair this hapless day
- Page No:
- pp.124-126
- Poem Title:
- The Parting
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The rolling year again brought on the day
- Page No:
- pp.126-128
- Poem Title:
- Fidelia.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Poor relict of my once known yellow store
- Page No:
- pp.129-132
- Poem Title:
- The Last Guinea
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When midnight reigned when every grove was still
- Page No:
- pp.132-135
- Poem Title:
- Damon, or the Complaint
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The north east wind did briskly blow
- Page No:
- pp.135-137
- Poem Title:
- Bryan and Pereene: A West-Indian Poem
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now early shepherds over the meadow pass
- Page No:
- pp.137-139
- Poem Title:
- Health: an Eclogue
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By the blue taper's trembling light
- Page No:
- pp.140-142
- Poem Title:
- A Night-Piece on Death
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lovely lasting peace of mind
- Page No:
- pp.143-145
- Poem Title:
- A Hymn to Contentment
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy the man whose weighty purse contains
- Page No:
- pp.145-147
- Poem Title:
- Poverty
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let others warble love's soft pleasing theme
- Page No:
- pp.148-149
- Poem Title:
- Solitude
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Like mortal men great Jove grown fond of change
- Page No:
- pp.150-153
- Poem Title:
- The Shoe-Boy
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When music heavenly maid was young
- Page No:
- pp.153-157
- Poem Title:
- The Passions. An Ode.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When approached by the fair dewy fingers of spring
- Page No:
- pp.157-160
- Poem Title:
- Spring
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where the light cannot pierce in a grove of tall trees
- Page No:
- pp.160-161
- Poem Title:
- Summer
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though the seasons must alter ah yet let me find
- Page No:
- pp.161-164
- Poem Title:
- Autumn
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When the trees are all bare not a leaf to be seen
- Page No:
- pp.164-165
- Poem Title:
- Winter
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To thee my dear my soul's far better part
- Page No:
- p.166
- Poem Title:
- A Love-Letter, long after Marriage
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When shepherds flourished in Eliza's reign
- Page No:
- pp.167-169
- Poem Title:
- The Shepherd and Nightingale
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let others travel with incessant pain
- Page No:
- pp.170-173
- Poem Title:
- The Wish
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye groves with venerable moss arrayed
- Page No:
- pp.173-180
- Poem Title:
- Laura, or the Complaint
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The solitary bird of night
- Page No:
- pp.180-183
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Wisdom
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let coward guilt with pallid fear
- Page No:
- pp.183-184
- Poem Title:
- Written at Midnight in a Thunder Storm
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Seest thou yonder craggy rock
- Page No:
- pp.185-186
- Poem Title:
- The Complaint of a Lover
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas when the fields had shed their golden grain
- Page No:
- pp.187-189
- Poem Title:
- Colinetta
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What means the reeling earth O why
- Page No:
- pp.190-191
- Poem Title:
- The Crucifixion and Resurrection, an Ode.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As cruel Tom dressed in his Sunday's coat
- Page No:
- pp.191-192
- Poem Title:
- The Drowning of a Kitten: or Cruelty Punished
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As Phillis sat beneath the spreading shade
- Page No:
- pp.192-194
- Poem Title:
- The fatal Moment: or, Phillis forsaken
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What is this fleeting life of man
- Page No:
- pp.194-195
- Poem Title:
- On the Vanity and Vicissitudes of human Life
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When western breezes fan the shore
- Page No:
- p.196
- Poem Title:
- The Shepherd's Life preferred
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The village cock with piercing notes
- Page No:
- pp.197-200
- Poem Title:
- A Morning Rhapsody
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With gallant pomp and beauteous pride
- Page No:
- pp.201-203
- Poem Title:
- Ode on a Storm
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tube I love thee as my life
- Page No:
- p.204
- Poem Title:
- Chusing a Wife by a Pipe of Tobacco
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why sighs each virgin for the nuptial bed
- Page No:
- pp.205-206
- Poem Title:
- Wholesome Advice to unmarried Ladies
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Yes to the sages be it told
- Page No:
- pp.206-208
- Poem Title:
- The Man of Pleasure
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah what avails the lengthening mead
- Page No:
- pp.208-210
- Poem Title:
- The Man of Sorrow
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Placed on the verge of youth my mind
- Page No:
- pp.210-213
- Poem Title:
- The Trials of Virtue
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath an oak a rustic clown
- Page No:
- pp.213-214
- Poem Title:
- The Grumbling Clown
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How happy is the harmless country maid
- Page No:
- p.214
- Poem Title:
- The happy Country Maid
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Serene is the morn the lark leaves his nest
- Page No:
- pp.215-216
- Poem Title:
- The Violet
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Poor Jenny amorous young and gay
- Page No:
- p.216
- Poem Title:
- The Way to be Wise
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some herbs there are whose deadly juices fill
- Page No:
- pp.217-221
- Poem Title:
- The Way of the World
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When lonely night composed the drowsy mind
- Page No:
- pp.221-223
- Poem Title:
- The Temple of Love. A Dream.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How sacred and how innocent
- Page No:
- pp.224-227
- Poem Title:
- A Country-Life
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Gay Chloe's charms attract the eye
- Page No:
- pp.227-228
- Poem Title:
- Sacharissa and Chloe compared; or Virtue preferable to Beauty
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O under various sacred names adored
- Page No:
- pp.228-230
- Poem Title:
- The Hymn of Cleanthes
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold yon new born infant grieved
- Page No:
- pp.230-231
- Poem Title:
- The Ignorance of Man
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Shook from the evening's fragrant wings
- Page No:
- pp.232-233
- Poem Title:
- Retirement
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Far in the windings of a vale
- Page No:
- pp.234-236
- Poem Title:
- Edwin and Emma
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why mourns my friend why weeps his downcast eye
- Page No:
- pp.237-240
- Poem Title:
- Elegy
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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