Love tales and elegies with pastorals and other curious poems. Selected from the best authors. [T113367] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1293

Publication Date:

1775

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T113367

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW114336378

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

[i]LOVE TALES[/i] | AND | [i]ELEGIES:[/i] | INTERSPERSED WITH | PASTORALS AND OTHER CURIOUS POEMS. | SELECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORS. | WITH | SEVERAL VALUABLE ORIGINALS. | [Engraving] | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR J. WENMAN, No 144, FLEET-STREET. | MDCCLXXV.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Comments:

Attributions: Note on contents page explains 'The Pieces marked with an Asterism are Originals'. The asterisms have been noted as part of poem attribution details, and the attribution type of poems so marked has been given as 'descriptive epithet'.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Preface pp.[iii]-iv; Contents [2pp.]

Related People

Publisher:

Joseph Wenman

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

How oft to Mira has her favoured youth

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pp.1-3

Poem Title:

Mira. An Elegy. On The Death Of An Unhappy Young Lady.

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Where beauteous Isis and her husband Tame

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pp.3-26

Poem Title:

Henry and Emma; Or, The Nut-Brown Maid.

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Alexis shunned his fellow swains

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pp.26-27

Poem Title:

The Despairing Shepherd.

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While from the skies the ruddy sun descends

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pp.27-29

Poem Title:

Love And Friendship. A Pastoral.

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Far in Cythera stands a spacious grove

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pp.30-31

Poem Title:

The Grotto of Love.

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What can I say what arguments can prove

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pp.31-35

Poem Title:

Caelia To Damon: An Elegaic Epistle.

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While blooming youth and gay delight

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pp.35-37

Poem Title:

To Caelia.

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See while thou weepst fair Chloe see

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pp.37-38

Poem Title:

To Chloe, Weeping.

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Farewell that liberty our fathers gave

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pp.38-39

Poem Title:

On Neaera.

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Adieu ye walls that guard my cruel fair

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pp.40-41

Poem Title:

On The Same.

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Thousands would seek the lasting peace of death

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pp.41-42

Poem Title:

To Delia.

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He who could first two gentle hearts unbind

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pp.42-44

Poem Title:

On the Loss of Delia.

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Thirsis a youth of the inspired train

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p.44

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[no title]

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Margarita first possessed

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pp.45-47

Poem Title:

The Chronicle.

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Whilst on Septimius's panting breast

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pp.48-49

Poem Title:

Acme and Septimius.

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Behold a fabric rising from the ground

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pp.50-52

Poem Title:

The Temple of Love.

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In that sweet isle where Venus keeps her court

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pp.52-72

Poem Title:

Cymon and Iphigenia. A Tale: From Boccace.

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When radiant Phoebus first began to rise

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pp.72-79

Poem Title:

Damon And Thyrsis, An Elegaic Pastoral.

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Where wide Salopia's fertile plains extend

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pp.80-83

Poem Title:

Emma of Shrewsbury.

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What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade

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pp.83-86

Poem Title:

Elegy On An Unfortunate Lady.

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Come Mira thou pride of the grove

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pp.86-87

Poem Title:

To Mira.

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O come Eliza lovely maid

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pp.88-89

Poem Title:

To Eliza.

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Though summer exerts her sweet power

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pp.89-91

Poem Title:

Love Verses, To Phyllida.

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Ye groves with venerable moss arrayed

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pp.91-98

Poem Title:

Laura, An Elegy.

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Endued with all that could adorn

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pp.99-100

Poem Title:

The Lover And The Friend.

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Ye fair for whom the hands of Hymen weave

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pp.100-103

Poem Title:

Il Latte.

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Through the dim veil of evening's dusky shade

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pp.103-105

Poem Title:

Ophelia's Urn.

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Why over the verdant banks of Ooze

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pp.105-106

Poem Title:

The Halcyon.

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Why mourns my friend why weeps his downcast eye

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pp.106-110

Poem Title:

Jessy. An Elegaic Poem.

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A tear bedews my Delia's eye

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pp.110-111

Poem Title:

To Delia, Weeping.

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Far in the windings of a vale

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pp.112-115

Poem Title:

Edwin and Emma.

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Will you hear how once repining

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pp.115-117

Poem Title:

Eliza's Complaint.

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Let the green olive glad hesperian shores

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pp.117-128

Poem Title:

Love and Honour.

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Artist who underneath my table

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pp.128-129

Poem Title:

To a Spider.

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Kitty's charming voice and face

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p.129

Poem Title:

The Play-Thing.

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Phyllis hear thy faithful swain

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pp.130-131

Poem Title:

The Lover's Gift.

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Yes fair Aspasia while thy charms I own

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pp.131-134

Poem Title:

To Aspasia.

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Cobham to thee this rural lay I bring

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pp.134-137

Poem Title:

Enjoyment.

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Of Leinster famed for maidens fair

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pp.137-139

Poem Title:

Lucy of Leinster.

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Parent of blooming flowers and gay desires

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pp.140-141

Poem Title:

On Delia Lost. Written In The Spring.

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Take holy earth all that my soul holds dear

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p.140

Poem Title:

Maria. An Elegy.

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In ancient days when Arthur reigned

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pp.141-147

Poem Title:

Hengist and Mey. A British Tale.

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As duteous to the place of prayer

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pp.148-151

Poem Title:

The Sun-Flower. A Fable.

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Beneath yon flowery turf the fairest head

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pp.151-152

Poem Title:

On Laura's Grave.

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Whether Stella's eyes are found

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pp.152-153

Poem Title:

The Natural Beauty.

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Come live with me and be my love

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pp.153-154

Poem Title:

The Shepherd's Invitation.

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If all the world and love were young

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pp.155-156

Poem Title:

The Refusal.

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While winter deforms the rough year

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pp.156-158

Poem Title:

Phoebe Absent. A Pastoral Ballad.

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Canst thou shepherd canst thou tell

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pp.158-159

Poem Title:

The Nymph's Question.

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Seek not for paradise with curious eye

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pp.159-161

Poem Title:

Paradise Restored.

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Come thou rosy dimpled boy

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pp.162-163

Poem Title:

Ode To Cupid.

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In the dead of the night when with labour oppressed

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pp.163-164

Poem Title:

An Anacreontic.

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Oh me that restless bliss so soon should fly

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pp.164-165

Poem Title:

The Comparison.

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Retired from any mortal's sight

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pp.166-167

Poem Title:

The Unhappy Lover.

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The sun far sunk in his descent

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p.166

Poem Title:

Laura's Walk.

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When here Lucinda first we came

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pp.167-168

Poem Title:

Arno's Vale.

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How sweet to recall the soft moments of joy

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pp.168-170

Poem Title:

A Pastoral Ballad.

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Twas not by beauty's aid alone

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pp.171-172

Poem Title:

Clara's Triumph.

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If ever sharp sorrow from thine eyes did flow

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pp.172-173

Poem Title:

An Epitaph.

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As Chloe on flowerets reclined over the stream

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pp.173-174

Poem Title:

Chloe's Resolution.

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Tis night dead night and over the plain

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pp.174-177

Poem Title:

THe Midnight Lover.

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Turn gentle hermit of the dale

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pp.178-183

Poem Title:

The Hermit.

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O Nancy wilt thou go with me

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pp.183-184

Poem Title:

Nancy, A Love Song.

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Hark through the sacred silence of the night

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pp.185-188

Poem Title:

Verses Written On Valentine's Morning.

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