A Select Collection of Poems, From the most approved Authors, Vol 2 [T117085] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1160

Publication Date:

1768

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

T117085

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW114144941

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BL

Full Title:

A | SELECT | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS, | From the most approved AUTHORS. | [double-rule] | IN TWO VOLUMES. | [double rule]| VOL. II. | [rule] | EDINBURGH: | Printed by A. DONALDSON, and sold at | his Shops in London and Edinburgh. | [double-rule] | MDCCLXVIII.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

CHECK

Comments:

CONTENTS: Half-title: [Ornament] | A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS. | VOL. II. | [ornament] 'CONTENTS of VOL. II.', p.v-viii.

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Author:

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:

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Whoever with curious eye has ranged

Page No:

pp.2-3

Poem Title:

The Monkies, a Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

When Cortez' furious legions flew

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

The Revenge of America.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Joseph Warton

First Line:

The dart of Izdabel prevails twas dipped

Page No:

p.5

Poem Title:

The Dying Indian.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Joseph Warton

First Line:

Mother of musings contemplation sage

Page No:

pp.8-15

Poem Title:

The Pleasures of Melancholy. Written in the Year 1745.

Attribution:

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 Absence of —.

Attribution:

By the Same [Thomas 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. Thomas 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:

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, address'd to Mr. St—pe, to whom the Authour 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 in 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...Set to Music by Mr. Boyce, Composer to his Majesty.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mason, Fellow of Pembroke-Hall.

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 Shepheard.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. William 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. Richard 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:

Ere yellow autumn from our plains retired

Page No:

pp.40-42

Poem Title:

The Swallows. Written September, 1748.

Attribution:

By Mr. Jago.

Attributed To:

Richard Jago

First Line:

Seek not in these paths to view

Page No:

pp.42-43

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hark what a mournful solemn sound

Page No:

pp.43-45

Poem Title:

Some Reflections upon hearing the Bell toll for the Death of a Friend.

Attribution:

By Mr. J. G.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O come thou melancholy muse

Page No:

pp.45-47

Poem Title:

The Robin: An Elegy. Written at the close of Autumn, 1756.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. J. G.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As once the muse reclining on her lyre

Page No:

pp.47-49

Poem Title:

Ut Pictura Poesis.

Attribution:

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

Attributed To:

John Nourse

First Line:

What ken mine eyes enchanted man of ease

Page No:

pp.49-52

Poem Title:

On J. W. ranging Pamphlets.

Attribution:

By Mr. D—.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sir | While at the helm of state you ride

Page No:

pp.52-53

Poem Title:

A Letter to Sir Robert Walpole.

Attribution:

By the late Henry Fielding.

Attributed To:

Henry Fielding

First Line:

Dear doctor of St Mary's

Page No:

pp.54-55

Poem Title:

A Song. Upon Miss Harriet Hanbury, addressed 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.55

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.56-64

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.56

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:

With gallant pomp and beauteous pride

Page No:

pp.64-66

Poem Title:

Ode on a Storm.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How short is life's uncertain space

Page No:

pp.66-67

Poem Title:

The Wish.

Attribution:

By Mr. Merrick.

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

Oft has it been my lot to mark

Page No:

pp.67-70

Poem Title:

The Camelion: A Fable after Monsieur De La Motte.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. James Merrick]

Attributed To:

James Merrick

First Line:

Come Thomas give us t' other sonnet

Page No:

pp.70-73

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:

Time flies so you and Horace sing

Page No:

pp.73-76

Poem Title:

To Mr. J. H. at the Temple, occasioned by a Translation of an Epistle of Horace. 1730.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. S—, of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Between the smooth descent of yonder hills

Page No:

pp.76-79

Poem Title:

The Country Parson.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While soft through water earth and air

Page No:

pp.80-81

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.81-83

Poem Title:

Ode, to Spring.

Attribution:

By Miss F.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sister of Phoebus gentle queen

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

Ode to Cynthia.

Attribution:

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

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sweet warbler to whose artless song

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

Ode to a Thrush.

Attribution:

By Miss P * * *.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Over yonder eastern hill the twilight throws

Page No:

pp.85-94

Poem Title:

Hymn To The Naiads...1746.

Attribution:

By Dr. Akenside.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

The wise and great of every clime

Page No:

pp.95-103

Poem Title:

Ode To the Right Honourable Francis Earl of Huntingdon. MDCCXLVII.

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.104

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.105

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:

pp.105-106

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:

pp.106-107

Poem Title:

IV.

Attribution:

By the Same [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Hail sacred stream whose waters roll

Page No:

pp.107-110

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By William Whitehead, Esq.

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Silent and clear through yonder peaceful vale

Page No:

pp.111-113

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead, Esq;]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Amid these mouldering walls this marble round

Page No:

pp.114-116

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead, Esq;]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Yes noble youth tis true the softer arts

Page No:

pp.117-119

Poem Title:

Elegy III. To the Right Honourable George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Newnham. Written at Rome, 1756.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead, Esq;]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

From Latian fields the mansions of renown

Page No:

pp.119-122

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. William Whitehead, Esq;]

Attributed To:

William Whitehead

First Line:

Behold the magic of Theresa's hand

Page No:

pp.122-123

Poem Title:

To a Lady on a Landscape of her Drawing.

Attribution:

By Mr. Parrat.

Attributed To:

Charles Parrott

First Line:

In frolic's hour ere serious thought had birth

Page No:

pp.123-126

Poem Title:

To the Honourable and Reverend F. C.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

French power and weak allies and war and want

Page No:

pp.127-131

Poem Title:

To the Reverend T— T—, D. D.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Prithee why so fantastic and vain

Page No:

pp.131-132

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.133-134

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.134-135

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By the Same. [Thomas Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

The hero who to Smyrna bay

Page No:

pp.135-139

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. the Rev. Dr. Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

Lord sister here's the butcher come

Page No:

pp.140-142

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Thomas Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

In Russia's frozen clime some ages since

Page No:

pp.143-170

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Thomas Lisle]

Attributed To:

Thomas Lisle

First Line:

When tepid breezes fanned the air

Page No:

pp.170-171

Poem Title:

The Ever-Green.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too timorous maid can time or chance

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

Answer

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The midnight moon serenely smiles

Page No:

pp.172-173

Poem Title:

To Miss ****.

Attribution:

By Miss Eliza Carter.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

Beneath an aged oak's embowering shade

Page No:

pp.174-177

Poem Title:

Cynthia, an Elegiac Poem.

Attribution:

By T. P***cy.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Queen of each sacred sound sweet child of air

Page No:

pp.178-180

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.180-181

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

Viscount Bolingbroke.

Attributed To:

Henry St John

First Line:

Led by the muse my step pervades

Page No:

pp.182-185

Poem Title:

An Ode to Sculpture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Kitty's charming voice and face

Page No:

pp.185-186

Poem Title:

The Play-Thing changed.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Old Plumb who though blessed in his Kentish retreat

Page No:

pp.186-188

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.188-190

Poem Title:

The Fakeer: A Tale.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Richard Owen Cambridge]

Attributed To:

Richard Owen Cambridge

First Line:

Here on my native shore reclined

Page No:

pp.191-194

Poem Title:

Ode to Independency.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mason.

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Ah cease this kind persuasive strain

Page No:

pp.194-196

Poem Title:

Ode on Melancholy. To a Friend.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mason]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Awake aeolian lyre awake

Page No:

pp.196-200

Poem Title:

Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Ruin seize thee ruthless king

Page No:

pp.201-206

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.207

Poem Title:

Song...Written in the Year 1732.

Attribution:

By Lord Lyttleton.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

Clarinda dearly loved attend

Page No:

pp.208-213

Poem Title:

An Epistle to a Lady.

Attribution:

By — Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail lovely babe to thee at length is given

Page No:

pp.214-217

Poem Title:

Ode, wrote on the Birth of Miss M. H. G.

Attribution:

By Miss E. K.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh Albion famed for arts in arms renowned

Page No:

pp.218-220

Poem Title:

The Complaint. An Elegy.

Attribution:

By J—. H—.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What time the jocund rosy bosomed hours

Page No:

pp.220-226

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.227-228

Poem Title:

Love-Elegies...Written in the year 1732. Elegy I. On his falling in love with Neaera.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Adieu ye walls that guard my cruel fair

Page No:

pp.229-230

Poem Title:

Love-Elegies...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.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Should Jove descend in floods of liquid ore

Page No:

pp.230-231

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

While calm you sit beneath your secret shade

Page No:

pp.231-232

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

With wine more wine deceive thy master's care

Page No:

pp.233-235

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.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Thousands would seek the lasting peace of death

Page No:

pp.235-236

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Now Delia breathes in woods the fragrant air

Page No:

pp.237-238

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Ah what avails thy lover's pious care

Page No:

pp.238-239

Poem Title:

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

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

He who could first two gentle hearts unbind

Page No:

pp.239-241

Poem Title:

Elegy IX. He has lost Delia.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

This day which saw my Delia's beauty rise

Page No:

pp.241-242

Poem Title:

Elegy X. On Delia's Birth-day.

Attribution:

By. Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

The man who sharpened first the warlike steel

Page No:

pp.242-243

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.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

No second love shall ever my heart surprize

Page No:

pp.243-244

Poem Title:

Elegy XII. To Delia.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Let others boast their heaps of shining gold

Page No:

pp.244-247

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.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

What scenes of bliss my raptured fancy framed

Page No:

pp.247-248

Poem Title:

Elegy XIV. To Delia.

Attribution:

By Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Oh formed alike to serve us and to please

Page No:

pp.249-250

Poem Title:

Elegy XV. To Mr. George Grenville.

Attribution:

By. Mr. Hammond.

Attributed To:

James Hammond

First Line:

Well done my lord with noble taste

Page No:

pp.251-252

Poem Title:

Verses on the Equestrian Statue of King Charles II in the Parliament Close, being painted white, September, 1767.

Attribution:

By the Authour of Dorando.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sure there are charms by heaven assigned

Page No:

pp.252-256

Poem Title:

The Birth of Fashion. A Specimen of a Modern Ode. From the New Bath-Guide.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear mother my time has been wretchedly spent

Page No:

pp.256-259

Poem Title:

The Consultation of Physicians. From the Same [i.e. the New Bath-Guide].

Attribution:

By S— B—N—R—D.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From the earliest ages dear mother till now

Page No:

pp.259-262

Poem Title:

The Trade of Gaming. From the Same [i.e. the New Bath-Guide].

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Over moorlands and mountains rude barren and bare

Page No:

pp.263-264

Poem Title:

Content: A Pastoral.

Attribution:

By J. Cunningham.

Attributed To:

John Cunningham