Miscellaneous pieces of poetry, selected from various eminent authors [T139170] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1410

Publication Date:

1765

ESTC number:

T139170

Format:

Unknown

Content/Publication

First Line:

Let happier bards whose raptured breasts aspire

Page No:

p.[1]

Poem Title:

Address To R--- S--- M---, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where is the man who prodigal of mind

Page No:

pp.3-8

Poem Title:

The Enlargement of the Mind: in Two Epistles. Epistle I. To General Craufurd, from Belvidere.

Attribution:

'Mr. Langhorne's' [p.2]

Attributed To:

John Langhorne

First Line:

Light heard his voice and eager to obey

Page No:

pp.8-15

Poem Title:

Epistle II. To William Langhorne, M. A.

Attribution:

'Mr. Langhorne's' [p.2]

Attributed To:

John Langhorne

First Line:

To wake the soul by every power sublime

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

Sent to the Rev. Dr. M---, with the two preceding Epistles,

Attribution:

by --S ---.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From the red wave rising bright

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

Hymn to the Rising Sun.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Life of the world immortal mind

Page No:

pp.18-20

Poem Title:

Hymn to the Eternal Providence.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou whom love and fancy lead

Page No:

pp.20-22

Poem Title:

Ode, Written in a Cottage-garden, at a Village in Lorrain; and occasioned by a Tradition concerning a Tree of Rosemary. Arbustum Loquitur.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Parent of virtue if thine ear

Page No:

pp.23-26

Poem Title:

Hymn to Humanity.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twice twenty tedious moons have rolled away

Page No:

pp.29-31

Poem Title:

The Volunteer Laureat, No. I. On the Queen's Birth-day, 1731-2. Addressed to her Majesty.

Attribution:

By Richard Savage, Esq.

Attributed To:

Richard Savage

First Line:

Oft has the Muse on this distinguished day

Page No:

pp.32-35

Poem Title:

The Volunteer Laureat, No VII. For the 1st of March, 1738.

Attribution:

'Richard Savage', p.27.

Attributed To:

Richard Savage

First Line:

Where Thames with pride beholds Augusta's charms

Page No:

pp.35-39

Poem Title:

The Triumph of Health and Mirth, A Poem occasioned by the Recovery of Belinda, a Lady of Quality, at Bath.

Attribution:

'Richard Savage', p.27.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Closed are those eyes that beamed seraphic fire

Page No:

pp.39-40

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a young Lady.

Attribution:

'Richard Savage', p.27.

Attributed To:

Richard Savage

First Line:

See female vice and female folly here

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

To a Lady, Sent with Pope's Works.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh my loved Hill oh though by heaven designed

Page No:

pp.41-44

Poem Title:

The Friend: An Epistle to Aaron Hill, Esq;

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sink not my friend beneath misfortune's weight

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

To Richard Savage, Esq; Son of the Earl of Rivers.

Attribution:

By John Dyer, L. L. B. Author of Grongar Hill, the Ruins of Rome, and the Fleece.

Attributed To:

John Dyer

First Line:

When feverish poisons seized my tainted blood

Page No:

pp.46-49

Poem Title:

Sickness and Recovery.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Moses Browne.

Attributed To:

Moses Browne

First Line:

If amid the joys that crown thy happy choice

Page No:

pp.49-51

Poem Title:

Verses on the Marriage of Mr Daniel Booth, jun.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Moses Browne. [p.46]

Attributed To:

Moses Browne

First Line:

Though rude the verse though long withheld the lays

Page No:

pp.51-53

Poem Title:

Verses to the Memory of Mrs Booth, late wife of Daniel Booth, Esq;

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Moses Browne. [p.46]

Attributed To:

Moses Browne

First Line:

By Lea's dear banks where joined in play

Page No:

pp.54-55

Poem Title:

Musing by a River.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Moses Browne. [p.46]

Attributed To:

Moses Browne

First Line:

When day's faint beams their scattered light recall

Page No:

pp.55-60

Poem Title:

Astronomy, Its Discoveries, Improvements, Use and Excellency.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Moses Browne. [p.46]

Attributed To:

Moses Browne

First Line:

O thou by genius and by birth allied

Page No:

pp.60-62

Poem Title:

To the Rev. Mr. Moses Browne.

Attribution:

By Mr J. Duick.

Attributed To:

J. Duick

First Line:

Ye seraphs who God's throne incircling still

Page No:

pp.65-69

Poem Title:

The Goodness of God.

Attribution:

By Mr Samuel Boyse.

Attributed To:

Samuel Boyse

First Line:

Thus Job began cursed be the fatal morn

Page No:

pp.69-71

Poem Title:

The third Chapter of the Book of Job, translated.

Attribution:

By Mr Samuel Boyse.

Attributed To:

Samuel Boyse

First Line:

While thy torn heart with varied woe is pressed

Page No:

pp.71-73

Poem Title:

Verses occasioned by the death of Mr M--- S---.

Attribution:

By Mr Samuel Boyse.

Attributed To:

Samuel Boyse

First Line:

Once trembling in my sins I stood

Page No:

pp.74-75

Poem Title:

Paraphrase on the three first Verses of the third Chapter of St Paul's Epistle to the Roman's.[...] Wrote December 1752.

Attribution:

By Mr --- B---

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This day the promise is fulfilled

Page No:

pp.76-78

Poem Title:

Hymn, Founded upon Isaiah xxxiii. 17.

Attribution:

Designed to be sun after Sermon, on that text, upon a sacramental occasion.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye who did weep the barren womb

Page No:

pp.78-80

Poem Title:

Isaiah Chapter LIV. 1-11. verified.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On Nile's fair banks doth rise a woody grove

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

The Pharaoh's Dream.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Consider friend sedately view

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

To an Old Gentleman, (whose life had been remarkably vitious), on occasion of his Birthday, 6th July 1744.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How vain the promised joys of time

Page No:

pp.84-86

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. J--- H--- Addressed to the Rev. Mr E---.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas heaven fair nymph who taught the bard

Page No:

pp.86-88

Poem Title:

To Belinda, With a Copy of Pope and Mitchell's Works.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Struck by the favours of thy hand

Page No:

pp.88-91

Poem Title:

On Myrtilla's being struck down by a Golf-ball on Burnstfield's Links, near Edinburgh.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Full twenty beauties of the feathered tribe

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

To Myrtilla, on her setting at Liberty some Birds taken in a Gin.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While other bards invoke a fabulous muse

Page No:

pp.92-93

Poem Title:

To the Belle Assemble.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gay Chloe's charms attract the eye

Page No:

pp.93-95

Poem Title:

Sacharissa and Chloe compared; Virtue preferable to Beauty.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By all the wise admired the good esteemed

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

To the Memory of The Reverend Mr J--- B---.

Attribution:

By William Stevenson, M. D.

Attributed To:

William Stevenson

First Line:

Lo where the rosy bosomed hours

Page No:

pp.96-98

Poem Title:

Ode

Attribution:

By Mr Gray.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Say will no white robed son of light

Page No:

pp.98-101

Poem Title:

Truth, an Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. Mason

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Now the bright morning star day's harbinger

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

Sonnet on May Morning.

Attribution:

By Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Darcy to thee whatever of happier vein

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

Sonnet, To the Earl of Holdernesse,

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. W. Mason] Prefixed to his Poems.

Attributed To:

William Mason

First Line:

Hence gay delusions fickle train

Page No:

pp.102-105

Poem Title:

Truth, An irregular Ode,

Attribution:

By the Honourable and Reverend Mr Shirley, Loughrea, in Ireland.

Attributed To:

Walter Shirley

First Line:

Father of all still wise and good

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

Hymn to Adversity,

Attribution:

By William Smith, D. D. Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia.

Attributed To:

William Smith

First Line:

While for a pupil lost your sorrow flows

Page No:

pp.106-107

Poem Title:

On the Death of a Fellow-Student, [...] Addressed to Dr Smith his tutor, upon occasion of his preaching his funeral sermon.

Attribution:

By Mr Duche of Philadelphia-College.

Attributed To:

Mr. Duche

First Line:

O under various sacred names adored

Page No:

pp.107-110

Poem Title:

The Hymn of Cleanthes,

Attribution:

Translated by Gilbert West, Esq; L. L .D,

Attributed To:

Gilbert West

First Line:

Nor me the glories of thy birth engage

Page No:

pp.110-112

Poem Title:

An Ode to Mankind. Addressed to the Prince of Wales. [...] Introduction to the Prince.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. West]

Attributed To:

Gilbert West

First Line:

Is there or do the schoolmen dream

Page No:

pp.112-118

Poem Title:

To Mankind: The Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too anxious for the public weal

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

By the same [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Unmarked by trophies of the great and vain

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

An Inscription on the Tomb, Raised to the memory of the Author's father, and of others his Ancestors.

Attribution:

By the same. [not attributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Stanton the man that can control

Page No:

pp.120-122

Poem Title:

Solitude. To the Reverend Mr Stanton,

Attribution:

By Mr Thomas Gibbons.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gibbons

First Line:

The rosy morn had chased the power of sleep

Page No:

pp.122-123

Poem Title:

A View from Hay-Cliff, near Dover.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Gibbons]

Attributed To:

Thomas Gibbons

First Line:

Beneath this cool embowering shade

Page No:

pp.124-125

Poem Title:

Friendship. To Robert Cruttenden, Esq;

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Gibbons]

Attributed To:

Thomas Gibbons

First Line:

Come every tender heart pour forth your woe

Page No:

pp.125-126

Poem Title:

Verses on Miss C--- G---. A Young Lady, who died at Edinburgh, Feb. 22. 1761.

Attribution:

By the Countess of D---.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whence this unwanted transport in my breast

Page No:

pp.127-133

Poem Title:

A British Philippic: Occasioned by the Insults of the Spaniards, and the Preparations for war. Wrote, August 1738.

Attribution:

By Mark Akenside, M. D.

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Science thou fair effusive ray

Page No:

pp.134-137

Poem Title:

Hymn to Science.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Akenside]

Attributed To:

Mark Akenside

First Line:

Evening thou nymph divine and holy

Page No:

pp.138-140

Poem Title:

An Ode to Evening. In Imitation of Milton.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair as the dawning light auspicious guest

Page No:

pp.140-142

Poem Title:

Chearfulness.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When pious frauds and holy pride no more

Page No:

pp.142-145

Poem Title:

On the Nuptials of Frederic, late Prince of Wales. Wrote 1739.

Attribution:

Mr Jo. Spence, Professor of Poetry, and Fellow of New-College, Oxon, Who has made no inconsiderable figure in the literary world.

Attributed To:

Joseph Spence

First Line:

Virtue and fame the other day

Page No:

pp.146-147

Poem Title:

Virtue and Fame. To the Countess of Egremont.

Attribution:

By Lord Lyttelton.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

Fame heard with pleasure straight replied

Page No:

p.148

Poem Title:

Addition, extempore,

Attribution:

By the Earl Hardwicke.

Attributed To:

Philip Yorke

First Line:

Methought I saw before my feet

Page No:

pp.148-149

Poem Title:

Reply,

Attribution:

by Lord Lyttelton.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

Such were the notes that struck the wondering ear

Page No:

p.150

Poem Title:

On reading Miss Carter's Poems in manuscript.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Lyttelton]

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton

First Line:

While soft through water earth and air

Page No:

pp.151-153

Poem Title:

Ode, To a Lady in London.

Attribution:

By Miss Eliza Carter.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

While night in solemn shade invests the pole

Page No:

pp.153-155

Poem Title:

Ode,

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. Carter]

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter