Miscellaneous poems, by several hands [T117257]

DMI number:

638

Publication Date:

1726

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T117257

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111943211

Shelfmark:

Harding C 102

Full Title:

MISCELLANEOUS | POEMS, | BY | SEVERAL HANDS. | [rule] | Published by [i]D. LEWIS[/i]. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed by J. WATTS. M DCC XXVI.

Epigraph:

[i]Primum ego me illorum, dederim quibus esse Poetas, | Excerpam numero.[/i] -- Hor.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[17], 2-320.

Bibliographic details:

Leaves T2 and T4 are cancels. p.177 is misnumbered 167; p.314 is misnumbered 324.

Comments:

MISCELLANY GENRE: Miscellaneous poems. MISCELLANY CONTENTS: Untranslated Latin verse pp.147-148; p.176; pp.318-320.

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATERIAL: 'To the Right Honourable the Lord Charles Noell Somerset.' (4pp.); 'The Preface' (4pp.); 'Contents' (5pp.); 'Errata' (1pp.)

References:

Case 337(1)

Related People

Dedicatee:

Charles Noel Somerset

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Editor:

David Lewis

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Printer:

John Watts

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Absolute (100%)

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Content/Publication

First Line:

Fain would I sing the power supreme

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pp.1-4

Poem Title:

An Ode.

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What man in his wits had not rather be poor

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pp.5-6

Poem Title:

Song.

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Here lies the lyric who with tale and song

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p.6

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Tom D'Urfey.

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O thou that high thy head dost bear

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p.7

Poem Title:

The Decanter. From the Greek.

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Where proud Augusta blessed with long repose

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pp.8-18

Poem Title:

Bedlam.

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While Butler needy wretch was still alive

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p.18

Poem Title:

On the setting up Mr. Butler's Monument in Westminster Abby.

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Your sage and moralist can show

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pp.19-33

Poem Title:

The Cobler, A Tale.

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Taught by long miseries we find

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p.34

Poem Title:

Moral.

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Tis ill attempt not to foresee

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p.35

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XI. Book I. To Leuconoe.

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Gladsome spring brings on the year

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pp.36-37

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Description of the Spring. From Anacreon.

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Forgive fair creature formed to please

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p.37

Poem Title:

Song.

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When all was wrapped in dark midnight

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pp.38-46

Poem Title:

William and Margaret. A Ballad.

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The crowded theatre's delight

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p.48

Poem Title:

On the Death of Penkethman.

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While I was fond and you were kind

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pp.49-51

Poem Title:

Horace. Ode IX. Book III. Horace and Lydia.

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He on whose birth the lyric queen

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pp.51-52

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode III. Book IV. To Melpomene.

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Away let naught to love displeasing

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pp.53-55

Poem Title:

Translation from the Antient British.

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Fair marble tell to future days

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p.55

Poem Title:

On two Twin Sisters who died at the same Time, and were buried in one Grave.

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Tis justly thought to praise is ever hard

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pp.56-62

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Upon Mr. Hobbes. Occasion'd by a Copy of Verses written by the Earl of Mulgrave.

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Hard by the hall our master's house

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pp.62-65

Poem Title:

A Piscatory Ballad.

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See fairest yon poor captive see

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pp.65-66

Poem Title:

A Lover to his Mistress, on the sight of a Captive. Translated from the Spanish.

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Accept the muse which love and wonder raise

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pp.66-70

Poem Title:

To Sir Richard Steele. On his Comedy, The Conscious Lovers.

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Once on a time as placed supreme in state

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p.71

Poem Title:

On Ben Johnson's Club-Room, call'd the Apollo; at the Devil-Tavern in Fleet-Street.

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What path of life by man is trod | without repenting at the road

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p.72

Poem Title:

Against Life. From the Greek.

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What path of life by man is trod | without rejoicing at the road

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p.73

Poem Title:

For Life. From the Greek.

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The charms that blooming beauty shows

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pp.74-75

Poem Title:

Song.

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We've entertained the Italian strollers here

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pp.77-79

Poem Title:

A Latin Prologue spoke before one of Terence's Plays at Westminster; on Occasion of a late Boxing-Match, between an Englishman and an Italian. (p.75); The Same English'd. (p.77)

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To have me ever in your power

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pp.79-81

Poem Title:

To a Gentleman, upon receiving One Guinea, to be oblig'd to pay him Ten on Marriage.

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To walk a mile a friend to see

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p.81

Poem Title:

To a Friend, in Imitation of one of Martial's Epigrams.

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While fair Zelinda's various strains conspire

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p.82

Poem Title:

On a Young Lady's playing on the Spinet.

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The morning flowers display their sweets

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pp.83-84

Poem Title:

On the 6th and 8th Verses of the 40th Chapter of Isaiah, occasioned by the Death of a Young Lady.

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View not with envy fretting in thy breast

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pp.85-87

Poem Title:

Part of the 37th Psalm Paraphras'd.

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A good resolve ay marry is it

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pp.87-89

Poem Title:

Upon an Old Resolve.

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Dear Kitty now my counsel take

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pp.90-95

Poem Title:

To Kitty, a Poetical young Lady.

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No longer let men of simile

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p.95

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On a Weather-Cock erected in a close Place.

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Pleasantest companion this

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pp.96-97

Poem Title:

From Martial.

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Let Jove no more his Hebe boast

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p.97

Poem Title:

Verses wrote at Brigadier S----'s over a Bowl of Punch, where Jupiter and Hebe were painted in the Cieling.

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The lofty pyramid that threats the skies

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pp.98-99

Poem Title:

The Pyramid. In Latin and English.

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Is then that hero numbered with the dead

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p.99

Poem Title:

On the Death of Alexander the Great.

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Of wondrous art my muse delighted sings

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pp.100-105

Poem Title:

The Puppet-Shew. From the Latin of Mr. Addison.

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Tis heathenish over your cups to fight

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pp.106-107

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XXVII. Book I.

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Long from the force of beauty's charms

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p.108

Poem Title:

Song.

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When stock was fallen down derry down

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pp.109-114

Poem Title:

An excellent new Ballad on the South-Sea Dog-Fish, that was shewn on the River Thames, in July 1725.

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First Line:

Give you nymphs o give your lover

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p.115

Poem Title:

An Ode of Anacreon, translated after the Greek Measure.

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Here sleep whom neither life nor love

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p.116

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a Man and his Wife.

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If as they tell us man and wife

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p.116

Poem Title:

On the foregoing Epitaph.

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Thenot good day sure thou art bent to thrive

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pp.117-121

Poem Title:

Pastoral. Colin. Thenot.

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Come dearest Lesbia heavenly fair

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pp.121-122

Poem Title:

To Lesbia, out of Catullus.

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She comes she comes now pants my heart

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pp.122-124

Poem Title:

An Ode.

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Accept great bard the tribute of my praise

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pp.124-126

Poem Title:

To Mr. Fenton, on his Tragedy of Mariamne.

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The Macedonian youth with tears deplored

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p.127

Poem Title:

Alexander and Xerxes.

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See how thy captive lark

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pp.128-129

Poem Title:

To a Young lady, on her Lark.

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Last night when sleep with grateful rest

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pp.129-130

Poem Title:

The Dream.

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No more oh Rome thy wrong belief defend

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p.131

Poem Title:

An Epigram.

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Not all the shifts that crafty Rome invents

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p.131

Poem Title:

Another.

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Since all mankind to happiness

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pp.132-133

Poem Title:

On Human Life.

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Silent and lonesome while I lie

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pp.134-136

Poem Title:

The Penitent.

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In friendly part a well meant gift receive

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pp.137-143

Poem Title:

To Sir Herbert Powell, Bart. Upon his going to Travel.

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That this blest day though time's long race

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p.143

Poem Title:

To the Duke of R---- on his Birth-Day: presented by his Son, an Infant.

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A thousand charms in Celia meet

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p.144

Poem Title:

A Song.

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When Salva sings or plays the heroine's part

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p.144.2

Poem Title:

To Mrs. Anastasia Robinson.

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Thy hoarded gold thy chests may quit

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pp.145-146

Poem Title:

From Martial.

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How do they err who throw their love

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pp.146-147

Poem Title:

Song.

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O rare Ben Jonson what a turncoat grown

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p.148

Poem Title:

On Ben Johnson's Bust, lately set up in Westminster Abby, with the Buttons on the wrong Side.

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Live there composed of earthly frame

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pp.149-156

Poem Title:

Reflections upon these two Verses of Mr. Oldham's: | Lord of my self, accountable to none | But to my Conscience, and my God alone.

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Advice Cosmelia by the wise is loved

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p.156

Poem Title:

Presented to a Young Lady, with Advice to a Daughter.

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Old London great and wealthy grown

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p.157

Poem Title:

On the Dispute before the Parliament about building a Bridge at Westminster.

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To the dark and silent tomb

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pp.158-160

Poem Title:

Epitaph on an Infant.

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You've heard of more than civil jars

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pp.161-166

Poem Title:

The Masquerade.

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In metamorphosis as poets do tell

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pp.166-168

Poem Title:

Prologue to Ignoramus. In 1711.

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As Celia in her garden strayed

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pp.168-169

Poem Title:

On a Lady Stung by a Bee.

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Come follow follow me

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pp.170-176

Poem Title:

The Fairies.

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Julia young wanton flung the gathered snow

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p.[177]

Poem Title:

The Snow-Ball.

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For gentle ease and downy sleep

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pp.178-180

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XVI. Book II. To Grosphus.

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Fair virgin this epistle begs

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pp.181-194

Poem Title:

A Letter to a Lady, with a Present of Turkey-Eggs.

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The spring the pleasant spring is blown

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pp.195-196

Poem Title:

To Aurelia.

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The muses nine brave sprightly lasses

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pp.197-199

Poem Title:

Poets, all Amorous.

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The north and every cloud dispersing wind

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pp.200-205

Poem Title:

The Deluge, out of Ovid.

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This would be still my wish could I

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pp.205-208

Poem Title:

To a Friend in the Country, who complain'd of his Condition, and admir'd High Spirits in Low Fortunes.

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Roper and Ridpath both at once we read

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p.209

Poem Title:

On the Death of Abel Roper and George Ridpath, Authors of the Post-Boy and Flying-Post: who dyed both on the same day.

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If friend a wife you mean to wed

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pp.211-219

Poem Title:

Melissa.

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Say dearest Clio have you never seen

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p.220

Poem Title:

The Lover.

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If you mind but the moral my tale does unfold

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pp.221-222

Poem Title:

The Fool.

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Silent nymph with curious eye

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pp.223-231

Poem Title:

Grongar Hill.

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What decent time shall stay our tears

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pp.232-234

Poem Title:

To a Gentleman whose Father was lately dead. In Imitation of, Quis desiderio sit pudor, &c.

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Where a fair mead its verdure spread

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pp.234-237

Poem Title:

Damon and Celia.

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If youth and beauty fade my dear

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p.237

Poem Title:

Epigram from the Greek.

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Whilst at such distance from their native lands

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p.238

Poem Title:

On the Young Lions whelp'd in the Tower.

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See the springing day from far

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pp.239-247

Poem Title:

A Wedding-Song.

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No more the feeble lyre persuade

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pp.248-250

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XII. Book II. To Maecenas.

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O God how glorious is thy name

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pp.250-252

Poem Title:

Paraphrase on the viiith Psalm.

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From whence these dire portents around

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pp.253-254

Poem Title:

On the Passion of our Saviour.

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On God supreme our hope depends

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pp.255-257

Poem Title:

Part of the xlvith Psalm Parapras'd.

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Sweet lovely chaste

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pp.259-269

Poem Title:

The Wreath.

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While I my Cynthia's praises sing

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p.270

Poem Title:

Song.

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Let me see bread and beer tripe and dressing hey day

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p.271

Poem Title:

A Taylor, on a Tavern Bill.

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Appelles heard with grief to parents known

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pp.273-275

Poem Title:

The Painter's Mourning.

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The Thracian infant entering into life

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p.275

Poem Title:

The Thracian.

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The genuine grief the sorrow void of art

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pp.276-282

Poem Title:

On the Death of Sir Herbert Powell Baronet.

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On Stygian banks Diogenes the wise

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p.283

Poem Title:

Epigram from the Greek.

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The Lydian prince is blamed for wealth alone

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p.283

Poem Title:

On the foregoing Epigram.

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Hail ancient book most venerable code

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pp.284-290

Poem Title:

The Hornbook.

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A monster in a course of vice grown old

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p.290

Poem Title:

The Monument.

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Let playhouse actors crowded seats desire

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pp.291-292

Poem Title:

A prologue spoken before the Beaux-Stratagem, acted by some young Persons of Quality.

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Alas to this we come why why is life

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pp.292-294

Poem Title:

Occasion'd by the Death of Sir Godfrey Kneller.

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If ever to writing you pretend

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pp.295-303

Poem Title:

Advice to One who was about to write, to avoid the Immoralities of the antient and modern Poets.

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In roses cupid peeping

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p.304

Poem Title:

An Ode from Anacreon, in the Greek Measure.

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Ye courtiers who the blessings know

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pp.305-306

Poem Title:

The Savage; occasion'd by the bringing to Court a wild Youth, taken in the Woods in Germany, in the Year 1725.

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Arms and the man I sing who from Troy's coasts

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pp.307-309

Poem Title:

A verbal Translation, by way of Essay, of Part of the first Book of Virgil's Aeneid.

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I who was late concerned to hear

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pp.309-311

Poem Title:

To a Young Gentleman, on his Recovery from a Fit of Sickness.

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As faithless Paris ploughed his liquid way

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pp.312-[314]

Poem Title:

Horace, Ode XV. Book I.

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Enough of pagan idle toys

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pp.315-317

Poem Title:

Ode upon Christ's Crucifixion. From the Greek.

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