A select collection of poems from the most approved authors [vol 2] [N21829] [ecco]

DMI number:

1382

Publication Date:

1772

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

N21829

EEBO/ECCO link:

CB128854025

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BL

Full Title:

A SELECT | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS, | FROM | THE MOST APPROVED AUTHORS, | IN TWO VOLUMES. | [rule] | THE SECOND EDITION. | [rule] | VOL. II. | [double rule] | EDINBURGH: | Printed by A. DONALDSON, and sold at his Shop, | corner of Arundel-Street, Strand, London; and at | Edinburgh. | [short rule] | MDCCLXXII.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Duodecimo

Bibliographic details:

Half title: [ornamental rule] | A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS. | VOL. II. | [ornamental rule]

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Contents pp. [v]-viii.

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Title:

A select collection of poems from the most approved authors [vol 1] [N21829] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1772

ESTC No:

N21829

Volume:

1 of 2

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Printer:

Alexander Donaldson

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Ye belles and ye flirts and ye pert little things

Page No:

pp.1-2

Poem Title:

Song for Ranelagh.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Whitehead.

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Whoever with curious eye has ranged

Page No:

pp.2-3

Poem Title:

The Monkies: A Tale.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Merrick.

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

When Cortez' furious legions flew

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

The Revenge of America.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton.

Attributed To:

Joseph Warton

First Line:

The dart of Izdabel prevails twas dipped

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

The Dying Indian

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Warton]

Attributed To:

Joseph Warton

First Line:

Mother of musings contemplation sage

Page No:

pp.6-15

Poem Title:

The Pleasures of Melancholy. Written in teh Year 1745.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Thomas Warton.

Attributed To:

Thomas Warton

First Line:

W---de thy beechen slopes with waving grain

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

A Sonnet; written at W--de in the absense of --.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Warton]

Attributed To:

Thomas Warton

First Line:

As by some tyrant's stern command

Page No:

pp.17-20

Poem Title:

The Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse. Written in the Year 1744.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When late the trees were stripped by winter pale

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

On Bathing. A Sonnet.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Warton]

Attributed To:

Thomas Warton

First Line:

O thou who labourst in this rugged mine

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

By Miss Cooper, (now Mrs. Madan), in her Brother's Coke upon Littleton.

Attribution:

By Miss Cooper, (now Mrs. Madan)

Attributed To:

Judith Madan [nee Cowper]

First Line:

Try not my St---e tis in vain

Page No:

pp.22-23

Poem Title:

Ode on the Death of Matzel, a favourite Bull-finch; addressed to Mr. St--pe, to whom the Author had given the Reversion of it when he left Dresden.

Attribution:

By the Honourable Sir Charles Han. Williams, Kt. of the Bath.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

Beneath these moss grown roots this rustic cell

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

An Inscription on the Cell.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ne gay attire ne marble hall

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

Father Francis's Prayer. Written in Lord Westmorland's Hermitage.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sweet bird that singest on yonder spray

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

An Inscription in the Cell.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here all thy active fires diffuse

Page No:

pp.25-29

Poem Title:

An Ode Performed in the Senate-house at Cambridge, July 1. 1749, at the Installation of his Grace Thomas Holles Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mason, Fellow of Pembroke-Hall. Set to Music by Mr. Boyce, Composer to his Majesty.

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Yes magic lyre now all complete

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

Ode to an Aeolus's Harp. Sent to Miss Shepherd.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Mason]

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Away let naught to love displeasing

Page No:

pp.31-32

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Reflecting on thy worth methinks I find

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

Dennis to Mr. Thomson, Who had procured him a Benefit Night.

Attribution:

Dennis

Attributed To:

John Dennis

First Line:

To you whose groves protect the feathered choirs

Page No:

pp.33-36

Poem Title:

The Goldfinches. An Elegy.

Attribution:

By Mr. Jago.

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

The sun had chased the mountain snow

Page No:

pp.36-39

Poem Title:

The Blackbirds. An Elegy.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Jago]

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

In ancient times some hundred winters past

Page No:

pp.39-40

Poem Title:

The Heroines, or Modern Memoirs.

Attribution:

By Mr. Graves.

Attributed To:

Richard Graves

First Line:

Seek not in these paths to view

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

Transcribed from the Rev. Mr. Pixel's Parsonage Garden near Birmingham, 1757.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As once the muse reclining on her lyre

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

Ut Pictura Poesis.

Attribution:

By Mr. Nourse, late of All-Souls College Oxen, 1741.

Attributed To:

John Nourse

First Line:

Dear doctor of St Mary's

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

A Song Upon Miss Harriet Hanbury, addresed to the Rev. Mr. Birt.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

First Line:

Your compliments dear lady pray forbear

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

To a Lady, who sent Compliments to a Clergyman upon the Ten of Hearts.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Adieu awhile forsaken flood

Page No:

pp.45-53

Poem Title:

The Grotto...Written in the Year 1732.

Attribution:

Written by the late Mr. Green of the Custom-house, under the Name of Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford.

Attributed To:

Matthew Green

First Line:

Our wits Apollo's influence beg

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

The Grotto....Written in the Year 1732.

Attribution:

Written by the late Mr. Green of the Custom-house, under the Name of Peter Drake, a Fisherman of Brentford.

Attributed To:

Matthew Green

First Line:

Oft has it been my lot to mark

Page No:

pp.53-55

Poem Title:

The Camelion. A Fable after Monsieur De La Motte.

Attribution:

By Mr. Merrick.

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet

Page No:

pp.55-58

Poem Title:

Captain Thomas, of Battereau's Regiment in the Isle of Skie, to Captain P-- at Fort Augustus.

Attribution:

C. T.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Between the smooth descent of yonder hills

Page No:

pp.58-61

Poem Title:

The Country Parson.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While soft through water earth and air

Page No:

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

Ode, to a Lady in London.

Attribution:

By Miss Carter.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

Hail genial goddess blooming spring

Page No:

pp.63-65

Poem Title:

Ode, to Spring.

Attribution:

By Miss F.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sister of Phoebus gentle queen

Page No:

pp.65-66

Poem Title:

Ode to Cynthia.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Miss F. ]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail sacred stream whose waters roll

Page No:

pp.67-70

Poem Title:

Ode to the Tiber. Written Abroad...On entering the Campania of Rome, at Otricoli. MDCCLV.

Attribution:

By William Whitehead, Esq.

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Sweet warbler to whose artless song

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

Ode to a Thrush.

Attribution:

By Miss P***.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Silent and clear through yonder peaceful vale

Page No:

pp.70-73

Poem Title:

Elegy I. Written at the Convent of Haut Villiers in Champagne, 1754.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Amid these mouldering walls this marble round

Page No:

pp.73-75

Poem Title:

Elegy II. On the Mausoleum of Augustus. To The Right Honourable George Bussy Villiers, Visc. Villiers. Written at Rome, 1756,

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Yes noble youth tis true the softer arts

Page No:

pp.76-78

Poem Title:

Elegy III. To The Right Honourable George Simon Harcourt, Visc. Newnham. Written at Rome, 1756.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

From Latian fields the mansions of renown

Page No:

pp.78-81

Poem Title:

Elegy IV. To an Officer. Written at Rome, 1756.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Whitehead]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Behold the magic of Theresa's hand

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

To a Lady on a Landscape of her Drawing.

Attribution:

By Mr. Parrat.

Attributed To:

Charles Parrott

First Line:

Prithee why so fantastic and vain

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

To a Lady very handsome, but too fond of Dress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Phoebus's beams are withdrawn from our sight

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

An Excuse for Inconstancy, 1737.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Dr. Lisle.

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

When Orpheus went down to the regions below

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

The Power of Music. A Song. Imitated from the Spanish...Set to Music by Dr. Hayes.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

The hero who to Smyrna bay

Page No:

pp.86-91

Poem Title:

Letter from Smyrna to his Sisters at Crux-Easton, 1733.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Lisle]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lord sister here's the butcher come

Page No:

pp.91-94

Poem Title:

Letter from Marseilles to my Sisters at Crux-Easton, May 1735.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

In Russia's frozen clime some ages since

Page No:

pp.94-121

Poem Title:

The History of Porsenna, King of Russia. In Two Books.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

The midnight moon serenely smiles

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

To Miss ****.

Attribution:

By Miss Elisa Carter.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

Beneath an aged oak's embowering shade

Page No:

pp.124-127

Poem Title:

Cynthia: An Elegaic Poem.

Attribution:

By T. P***cy.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Queen of each sacred sound sweet child of air

Page No:

pp.128-130

Poem Title:

Arion, an Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Marriot.

Attributed To:

James Marriott

First Line:

Dear thoughtless Clara to my verse attend

Page No:

pp.130-131

Poem Title:

Epistle from the late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke to Miss Lucy Atkins.

Attribution:

Lord Viscount Bolingbroke

Attributed To:

Henry St John

First Line:

Led by the muse my step pervades

Page No:

pp.132-135

Poem Title:

An Ode to Sculpture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Old Plumb who though blessed in his Kentish retreat

Page No:

pp.136-138

Poem Title:

The Fable of Jotham: To the Borough-Hunters.

Attribution:

By Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq.

Attributed To:

Richard Owen Cambridge

First Line:

A fakeer a religious well known in the east

Page No:

pp.138-140

Poem Title:

The Fakeer: A Tale.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Cambridge]

Attributed To:

Richard Owen Cambridge

First Line:

Here on my native shore reclined

Page No:

pp.141-144

Poem Title:

Ode to Independency.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mason.

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Ah cease this kind persuasive strain

Page No:

pp.144-146

Poem Title:

Ode on Melancholy. To a Friend.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Mason]

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Awake aeolian lyre awake

Page No:

pp.146-150

Poem Title:

Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Ruin seize thee ruthless king

Page No:

pp.151-156

Poem Title:

Ode.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Gray]

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

When Delia on the plain appears

Page No:

p.157

Poem Title:

Song...Written in the Year 1732.

Attribution:

By Lord Lyttelton.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

Clarinda dearly loved attend

Page No:

pp.158-163

Poem Title:

An Epistle to a Lady.

Attribution:

By --- Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What time the jocund rosy bosomed hours

Page No:

pp.164-170

Poem Title:

The Tomb of Shakespear, A Vision.

Attribution:

By John Gilbert Cooper, Esq.

Attributed To:

John Gilbert Cooper

First Line:

Farewell that liberty our fathers gave

Page No:

pp.170-172

Poem Title:

Elegy I. On his falling in love with Neaera.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Adieu ye walls that guard my cruel fair

Page No:

pp.172-173

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Should Jove descend in floods of liquid ore

Page No:

pp.174-175

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

While calm you sit beneath your secret shade

Page No:

pp.175-176

Poem Title:

Elegy IV. To his friend, written under the confinement of a long indisposition.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

With wine more wine deceive thy master's care

Page No:

pp.176-178

Poem Title:

Elegy V. 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.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Thousands would seek the lasting peace of death

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Now Delia breathes in woods the fragrant air

Page No:

pp.180-182

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Ah what avails thy lover's pious care

Page No:

p.182

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

He who could first two gentle hearts unbind

Page No:

pp.183-184

Poem Title:

Elegy IX. He has lost Delia.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

This day which saw my Delia's beauty rise

Page No:

pp.184-185

Poem Title:

Elegy X. On Delia's Birth-Day.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

The man who sharpened first the warlike steel

Page No:

pp.185-186

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

No second love shall ever my heart surprize

Page No:

pp.186-187

Poem Title:

Elegy XII. To Delia.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Let others boast their heaps of shining gold

Page No:

pp.187-190

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

What scenes of bliss my raptured fancy framed

Page No:

pp.191-192

Poem Title:

Elegy XIV. To Delia.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Oh formed alike to serve us and to please

Page No:

pp.192-193

Poem Title:

Elegy XV. To Mr. George Grenville.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

O say thou dear possessor of my breast

Page No:

pp.194-195

Poem Title:

Elegy XVI. To Miss D-- W--d.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond. Written in the year 1732.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Over yonder eastern hill the twilight throws

Page No:

pp.196-205

Poem Title:

Hymn to the Naiads.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akenside. 1746.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

The wise and great of every clime

Page No:

pp.206-214

Poem Title:

Ode To the Right Honourable Francis Earl of Huntington.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

To me whom in their lays the shepherds call

Page No:

p.215

Poem Title:

I. For a Grotto.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Such was old Chaucer such the placid mien

Page No:

p.216

Poem Title:

II. For a Statue of Chaucer at Woodstock.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Whoever thou art whose path in summer lies

Page No:

p.217

Poem Title:

III.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

O youths and virgins o declining eld

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

IV.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Amid the garden's fragrance laid

Page No:

pp.219-221

Poem Title:

Ode I. Allusion to Horace.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

The radiant ruler of the year

Page No:

pp.221-224

Poem Title:

Ode II. On the Winter Solstice, 1740.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

O fly tis dire suspicion's mien

Page No:

pp.225-227

Poem Title:

Ode III. Against Suspicion.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Indeed my Phaedria if to find

Page No:

pp.227-229

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

How thick the shades of evening close

Page No:

pp.229-234

Poem Title:

Ode V. Hymn to Chearfulness. The Author sick.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Queen of my songs harmonious maid

Page No:

p.235

Poem Title:

Ode VI. On the Absence of the Poetic Inclination.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

No foolish boy to virtuous fame

Page No:

pp.236-238

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Adieu to Leyden's lonely bound

Page No:

pp.238-241

Poem Title:

Ode VIII. On leaving Holland.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Thou silent power whose balmy sway

Page No:

pp.241-243

Poem Title:

Ode IX. To Sleep.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Once more I join the Thespian choir

Page No:

pp.244-248

Poem Title:

Ode X. On Lyric Poetry.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

The balmy zephyrs over the woodland stray

Page No:

pp.248-255

Poem Title:

Mary, Queen of Scots: An Elegy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In ancient days when Arthur reigned

Page No:

pp.256-262

Poem Title:

Hengist and Mey: A Ballad.

Attribution:

By the Author of the Concubine.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now the storm begins to lower

Page No:

pp.263-266

Poem Title:

The Fatal Sisters: An Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Uprose the king of men with speed

Page No:

pp.266-269

Poem Title:

The Descent of Odin.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Gray]

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man

Page No:

pp.270-271

Poem Title:

The Beggar.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed