A Collection of Poems [T184998] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 102
- Publication Date:
- 1733
- ESTC number:
- T184998
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW116945703
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - BOD
- Full Title:
- A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS. | [rule] | [i]By the Author of a POEM on the[/i] CAMBRIDGE | LADIES. | [rule] | [ornament] | [double rule] | [i]CAMBRIDGE:[/i] | Printed by [i]W. FENNER.[/i] MDCCXXXIII.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge
- Genres:
- Subscription Miscellany
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- 0
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY MATTER: Subscription list (6pp.)
- Printer:
- W. Fenner
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed by. W. Fenner'
- First Line:
- Could I the gift of nature well display
- Page No:
- pp.1-5
- Poem Title:
- To the Gentlemen of Catherine-Hall.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Had I the power to will or to indite
- Page No:
- pp.6-17
- Poem Title:
- A Satyrical Poem on the Beggars Opera.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ere Lucifer dispersed the shades of night
- Page No:
- pp.18-28
- Poem Title:
- A Poem in Answer to A Lampoon, which was wrote on the Cambridge Ladies.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Like shipwrecked wretches tossed from shore to shore
- Page No:
- pp.29-31
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue to the University of Cambridge.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since friends and interest jointly do combine
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- To a young Woman who was pre-engag'd to a Friend.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Go thou loved tea go to the matchless fair
- Page No:
- pp.33-34
- Poem Title:
- Sent with some Tea, which was lost at Cards.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As he lived so he died
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- On a Miser.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In lovesick cares with grief oppressed
- Page No:
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- The Complaint.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How dark is reason in itself
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- To a Deist.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Led by thy gift through paths unknown
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- On receiving Byshe's Art of Poetry, from a Gentleman of Catharine-Hall.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I thank you sir for this the first
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- On receiving the First Volume of the Spectators, from a Gentleman of the same Hall.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- So kind the friend so smooth the numbers rise
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- On receiving the Lord Lansdown's Poems, from a Gentleman of the same Hall.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Prythee Nancy
- Page No:
- pp.40-41
- Poem Title:
- Advice to a Young-Woman who lov'd a Soldier. A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Numbers uncouth wild rants and fustian rage
- Page No:
- pp.42-44
- Poem Title:
- A Prologue to the University and Ladies of Cambridge.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See how my friend the good old man appears
- Page No:
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- A Translation of the Twenty-Third Epistle out of the Tenth Book of Martial.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Were heaven as kind as I my dear
- Page No:
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- In imitation of Catullus. A Paraphrase. From the Greek of Menage.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. unknown hand]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Alas poor Dido faith and troth
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- From Ausonius.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From my dear maid I stole a kiss in play
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- On his Mistress.
- Attribution:
- From the same. [i.e. unknown hand]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Selectest pair O friendship most refined
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- Upon two young Ladies, who were Sisters.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear Colin prevent my warm blushes
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By a young Lady
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail to the nymph who does my muse inspire
- Page No:
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- Sent with a Gift on New-Year's-Day.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Till now of late I thought the well dressed fair
- Page No:
- pp.53-58
- Poem Title:
- On the fantastical Behaviour of some of the Fair Sex at Newbury Church in Berkshire, at Divine Service; and also their unanimous Fancy to Velvet Scarves and Scarlet Cloaks.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Rosinda fair Rosinda is possessed
- Page No:
- p.59
- Poem Title:
- An Acrostick.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Admire ye poets where ye cannot raise
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. unknown hand]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mirinda charming nymph thou ever shalt be
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. unknown hand]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Gods of Castalia and all ye nine
- Page No:
- pp.62-64
- Poem Title:
- On M--- C---.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where healing springs near Astrop placed
- Page No:
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- Occasion'd by drinking a Lady's Health at Astrop-Wells; a Peach-stone, which she once had in her Mouth, being put into the Glass.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Drink on my friends drink yeoman dry
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram, occasion'd by the Peach-stone.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- True wit is like a brilliant stone
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- Upon Wit.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold a Lilliputian throng
- Page No:
- pp.69-70
- Poem Title:
- A Riddle.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain I shun Emilia's eyes
- Page No:
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas night when sleep each mortal eye had bound
- Page No:
- pp.73-82
- Poem Title:
- A Dream.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The beauties of the Cambridge fair
- Page No:
- pp.83-86
- Poem Title:
- A Song on the Cambridge Toasts. To the Tune of, All you Ladies now on Land.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The lovely nymphs of trinity
- Page No:
- pp.87-90
- Poem Title:
- The Trinity Beauties. To the same Tune.
- Attribution:
- By a different Hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In Cambridge dwells a blithesome lass
- Page No:
- pp.91-93
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- By J. H.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some former swains have passionately writ
- Page No:
- pp.94-95
- Poem Title:
- By one that lov'd to Excess, and yet rejected the Object beloved.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Accept the dictates of a wounded heart
- Page No:
- pp.95-97
- Poem Title:
- To his Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The furies at a time in consult met
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Assist ye gods inspire me whilst I write
- Page No:
- pp.98-103
- Poem Title:
- Lavinia's Lamentation.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who ever thou art that mounts a dazzling throne
- Page No:
- pp.104-109
- Poem Title:
- A Translation out of Seneca's Trag. Herc. OEtaeus. Act II Cho.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With no less various passions tossed
- Page No:
- pp.110-111
- Poem Title:
- Desiring it might rain, to detain a Mistress.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear P---n | While your fair nymph I surveyed
- Page No:
- p.112
- Poem Title:
- To a Gentleman in Love.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. unknown hand]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain our fruitless tears are shed
- Page No:
- pp.113-114
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of the Reverend Mr. Eyles, A. M. Fellow of St. John's College, just after his return from Paris.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Once more we see the lovely spring
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- April.
- Attribution:
- Philander
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Farewell fair saint may neither seas nor wind
- Page No:
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram on a Lady who cross'd the Seas.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While you my friend enjoy the London air
- Page No:
- pp.116-119
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to a Friend.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Aeolus profligate of storm
- Page No:
- pp.119-120
- Poem Title:
- On a Beautiful Young Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cruel Amanda hard's my fate
- Page No:
- p.120
- Poem Title:
- To his Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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