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.]

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Duodecimo

Price:

Three shillings

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Half title: [ornamental rule] | A | COLLECTION | OF THE BEST | MODERN POEMS. | [ornamental rule]

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Prefatory matter: Contents [4pp.]

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Some husbands on a winter day

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pp.1-7

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The Pig. A Tale.

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Remote from cities in a country town

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pp.8-11

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The Lyar: An Heroic Tale.

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Hirco an old but amorous blade

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pp.12-18

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The Leaky Vessel.

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When good king Jemmy wore the British crown

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pp.18-20

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The Merry Monarch; or Knighthood a Jest.

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Sir John a country magistrate

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pp.21-23

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The Country Justice

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On reading over your proclamation

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pp.23-27

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The Power of Scolding, a wonderful Tale

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by Jack Lovesun

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When infants are born by experience we find

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pp.27-29

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The Furniture of a Beau's Mind

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We sage Cartesians who profess

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pp.29-34

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The Fair Nun, or Woman an Overmatch for the Devil. A Tale.

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In fruitful Lombardy of yore

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pp.34-48

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The Royal Cuckold

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A set of phrases learnt by rote

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pp.49-50

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The Furniture of a Woman's Mind

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Beneath a court's luxuriant skies

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pp.51-53

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The Mill. A Tale.

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A virtuoso had a mind to see

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pp.53-55

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The Incurious. A Tale.

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With envy fraught and malediction

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pp.55-59

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Measure for Measure. A Tale.

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Happy the man the cobler or the bard

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pp.59-61

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The Pleasures of Poverty

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The chiming bells from every steeple

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pp.62-66

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John, the English Footman, a Tale.

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Turn gentle hermit of the dale

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pp.66-71

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The Hermit

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Happy the man who free from noisy sports

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p.72

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The Happy Man

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Sylvia in days of yore had been

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pp.73-75

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The Crooked Stick. A Tale.

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All hail thou pleasing cheerful morn

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pp.75-76

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On May-Morning.

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Oh thou whose pinion did overspread the deep

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pp.77-79

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The Pleasures of the Night

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Behold my fair wherever we rove

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p.80

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The Winter's Walk

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A farmer once to London went

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pp.81-84

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The Farmer's Blunder

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This preacher silent yet severe

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pp.84-86

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On seeing a Scull

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Shakespeare's receipt to tame a shrew

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pp.86-90

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A new Receipt to tame a Shrew

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Fair rose whose lively glow the fancy warms

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pp.90-92

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The Rose

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Let others anxious for a lasting name

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pp.92-94

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On Mirth

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Just brought from school pert impudent and raw

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pp.94-97

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The Modern Fine Gentleman

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Oh thou who dwellst upon the bough

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pp.97-98

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The Rookery

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Endued with all that could adorn

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pp.98-100

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The Lover and the Friend

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Take the gift that I bestow

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p.100

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A translation of a little Sonnet wrote by Plato, in his younger time of life, and preserved by Diogenes Lacritius.

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O parent of each lovely muse

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pp.101-105

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Ode to Fancy

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Twas when the veil of night overspread the plain

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pp.105-107

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The Mouse and Oysters

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Twas midnight's hour and over the placid deep

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pp.107-110

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The Tempest

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Though time in haste for ever glides along

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pp.110-114

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On Time

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Thou whom to counsel is to praise

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pp.115-118

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The Female-Drum: or, The Origin of Cards. A Tale.

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Why start this case is yours or will be soon

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pp.118-119

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Wrote on the Tomb stone where is laid the Skull of a Man

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Blush not ye fair to own me but be wise

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p.119

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Wrote on another Tomb-stone where is laid the Skull of a Woman

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Tomorrow didst thou say

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pp.120-121

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To-morrow

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Well yesterday is passed and cannot be

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pp.121-122

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Yesterday

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In vain poor nymph to please our youthful sight

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pp.122-124

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An Elegy to an old Beauty

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Adieu my fair this hapless day

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pp.124-126

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The Parting

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The rolling year again brought on the day

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pp.126-128

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Fidelia.

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Poor relict of my once known yellow store

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pp.129-132

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The Last Guinea

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When midnight reigned when every grove was still

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pp.132-135

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Damon, or the Complaint

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The north east wind did briskly blow

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pp.135-137

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Bryan and Pereene: A West-Indian Poem

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Now early shepherds over the meadow pass

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pp.137-139

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Health: an Eclogue

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By the blue taper's trembling light

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pp.140-142

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A Night-Piece on Death

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Lovely lasting peace of mind

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pp.143-145

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A Hymn to Contentment

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Happy the man whose weighty purse contains

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pp.145-147

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Poverty

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Let others warble love's soft pleasing theme

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pp.148-149

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Solitude

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Like mortal men great Jove grown fond of change

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pp.150-153

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The Shoe-Boy

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When music heavenly maid was young

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pp.153-157

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The Passions. An Ode.

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When approached by the fair dewy fingers of spring

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pp.157-160

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Spring

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Where the light cannot pierce in a grove of tall trees

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pp.160-161

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Summer

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Though the seasons must alter ah yet let me find

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pp.161-164

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Autumn

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When the trees are all bare not a leaf to be seen

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pp.164-165

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Winter

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To thee my dear my soul's far better part

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p.166

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A Love-Letter, long after Marriage

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When shepherds flourished in Eliza's reign

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pp.167-169

Poem Title:

The Shepherd and Nightingale

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Let others travel with incessant pain

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pp.170-173

Poem Title:

The Wish

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Ye groves with venerable moss arrayed

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pp.173-180

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Laura, or the Complaint

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The solitary bird of night

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pp.180-183

Poem Title:

Ode to Wisdom

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Let coward guilt with pallid fear

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pp.183-184

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Written at Midnight in a Thunder Storm

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Seest thou yonder craggy rock

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pp.185-186

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The Complaint of a Lover

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Twas when the fields had shed their golden grain

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pp.187-189

Poem Title:

Colinetta

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What means the reeling earth O why

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pp.190-191

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The Crucifixion and Resurrection, an Ode.

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As cruel Tom dressed in his Sunday's coat

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pp.191-192

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The Drowning of a Kitten: or Cruelty Punished

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As Phillis sat beneath the spreading shade

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pp.192-194

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The fatal Moment: or, Phillis forsaken

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What is this fleeting life of man

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pp.194-195

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On the Vanity and Vicissitudes of human Life

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When western breezes fan the shore

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p.196

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The Shepherd's Life preferred

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The village cock with piercing notes

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pp.197-200

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A Morning Rhapsody

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With gallant pomp and beauteous pride

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pp.201-203

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Ode on a Storm

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Tube I love thee as my life

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p.204

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Chusing a Wife by a Pipe of Tobacco

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Why sighs each virgin for the nuptial bed

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pp.205-206

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Wholesome Advice to unmarried Ladies

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Yes to the sages be it told

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pp.206-208

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The Man of Pleasure

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Ah what avails the lengthening mead

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pp.208-210

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The Man of Sorrow

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Placed on the verge of youth my mind

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pp.210-213

Poem Title:

The Trials of Virtue

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Beneath an oak a rustic clown

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pp.213-214

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The Grumbling Clown

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How happy is the harmless country maid

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p.214

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The happy Country Maid

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Serene is the morn the lark leaves his nest

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pp.215-216

Poem Title:

The Violet

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Poor Jenny amorous young and gay

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p.216

Poem Title:

The Way to be Wise

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Some herbs there are whose deadly juices fill

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pp.217-221

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The Way of the World

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When lonely night composed the drowsy mind

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pp.221-223

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The Temple of Love. A Dream.

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How sacred and how innocent

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pp.224-227

Poem Title:

A Country-Life

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Gay Chloe's charms attract the eye

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pp.227-228

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Sacharissa and Chloe compared; or Virtue preferable to Beauty

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O under various sacred names adored

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pp.228-230

Poem Title:

The Hymn of Cleanthes

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Behold yon new born infant grieved

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pp.230-231

Poem Title:

The Ignorance of Man

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Shook from the evening's fragrant wings

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pp.232-233

Poem Title:

Retirement

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Far in the windings of a vale

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pp.234-236

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Edwin and Emma

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Why mourns my friend why weeps his downcast eye

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pp.237-240

Poem Title:

Elegy

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