A collection of poems by several hands. [ESTC R38820]

DMI number:

1691

Publication Date:

1693

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R38820

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Full Title:

A | Collection | OF | POEMS | [i]By Several Hands.[/i] | Most of them written by Per- | sons of Eminent Quality. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON[/i] | Printed by [i]T.Warren,[/i] for [i]Francis Saunders,[/i] | at the [i]Blue-Anchor[/i] in the Lower- | Walk of the [i]New-Exchange,[/i] 1693.

Epigraph:

[i]But who did ever in[/i] French [i]Authors see | The Comprehensive[/i] English [i]Energy? | The weighty Bullion of one Sterling Line, | Drawn to[/i] French [i]Wire, would through whole | Pages shine.[/i] | Lord [i]Roscommon's[/i] Essay on Translated Verse.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: (1) Publisher preface 'The Publisher to the Reader.' pp. A3r-A5r. (2) Contents 'The Contents.' pp. A6r-A8r. End matter: (1) Catalogue 'A Catalogue of Books Printed for, and Sold by Francis Saunders.' pp.274-276. (3) Preface 'The Preface to the Art of Poetry:' pp. Br-Bv.

References:

NCBEL 338 (1693)

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Editor:

Wentworth Dillon

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Printer:

Thomas Warren

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Publisher:

Saunders Francis

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Content/Publication

First Line:

Rome was not better by her Horace taught

Page No:

pp. 1-4

Poem Title:

Of This Translation, And of the Use of Poetry:

Attribution:

By Edmund Waller, Esq;

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

If in a picture Piso you should see

Page No:

pp. 5-32

Poem Title:

Horace of the Art of Poetry.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

In those cold climates where the sun appears

Page No:

pp. 33-48

Poem Title:

The Temple of Death.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Mulgrave.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

O azure vaults o crystal sky

Page No:

pp. 49-54

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase On the CXLVIII Psalm.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Virtue dear friend needs no defence

Page No:

pp. 55-7

Poem Title:

To Orinda: An Imitation of Horace.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Roscommon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

Ah happy grove dark and secure retreat

Page No:

pp. 58-60

Poem Title:

The Grove.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

In Windsor Forest before war destroyed

Page No:

pp. 65-82

Poem Title:

The Duel of the Stags.

Attribution:

Written by the Honourable Sir Robert Howard.

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Howard

First Line:

You tell me Celia you approve

Page No:

pp. 83-4

Poem Title:

To Celia.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Thyrsis I wish as well as you

Page No:

p. 85

Poem Title:

Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Princes make laws by which their subjects live

Page No:

pp. 86-7

Poem Title:

To Celia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Chloris I justly am betrayed

Page No:

pp. 88-9

Poem Title:

To Chloris

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Madam though meaner beauties might

Page No:

pp. 90-1

Poem Title:

To a Lady, who told him he could not Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Chloris you live adored by all

Page No:

pp. 92-4

Poem Title:

To Chloris

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Thou flatterer of all the fair

Page No:

pp. 95-8

Poem Title:

The Picture. In Imitation of Anacreon's Bathillus.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Mulgrave.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

From wars and plagues come no such harms

Page No:

pp. 99-101

Poem Title:

To a Coquet Beauty.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

From all uneasy passions free

Page No:

p. 102

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Hector though warned by an approaching cry

Page No:

pp. 103-10

Poem Title:

The Parting of Hector with his princess Andromache, and only Son Astyanax, when he went upon his last Expedition, in which he was Slain by Achilles. Done out of the Greek of Homer, Iliad. 6.

Attribution:

By Knightly Chetwood.

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

To vex and torture thy unmeaning brain

Page No:

pp. 111-3

Poem Title:

On a Poet Who Writ in the Praise of Satyr.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Rochester.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Once more love's mighty chains are broke

Page No:

pp. 114-5

Poem Title:

A Farewel to Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though Phillis your prevailing charms

Page No:

p. 116

Poem Title:

By a Person of Honour

Attribution:

By a Person of Honour

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Entreaty shall not serve nor violence

Page No:

pp. 117-20

Poem Title:

Epilogue to Every Man in his Humor.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Religious discord fury of this isle

Page No:

pp. 121-4

Poem Title:

Upon the Death of His Grace the Late Duke or Ormond, Anno 1687.

Attribution:

By Knightly Chetwood.

Attributed To:

Knightly Chetwood

First Line:

This Atlas gone what hero does remain

Page No:

pp. 124-6

Poem Title:

To His Grace the present Duke.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What strange surprise to meet such words as these

Page No:

pp. 127-8

Poem Title:

The Earl of Rochester's Answer, to a Paper of Verses, sent him by L.B. Felton, and taken out of the Translation of Ovid's Epistles, 1680.

Attribution:

The Earl of Rochester

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Sweetest bud of beauty may

Page No:

p. 129

Poem Title:

To a Very Young Lady.

Attribution:

By Sir George Etherege.

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Tell me gentle Strephon why

Page No:

pp. 130-2

Poem Title:

The Forsaken Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Ah Celia that I were but sure

Page No:

pp. 133-4

Poem Title:

The Divided Heart.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

While others toil our country to supply

Page No:

pp. 135-7

Poem Title:

To Mr. J. N. on his Translations out of French and Italian.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Hopeless I languish out my days

Page No:

pp. 138-9

Poem Title:

Virtue's Urania

Attribution:

By the same Author.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind

Page No:

pp. 140-1

Poem Title:

Sylvia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

As in those nations where they yet adore

Page No:

pp. 142-3

Poem Title:

To Celia.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Ah pardon madam if I ever thought

Page No:

pp. 144-5

Poem Title:

The Submission.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Fear not my dear a flame can never die

Page No:

pp. 146-7

Poem Title:

Constancy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Thanks fair Urania to your scorn

Page No:

pp. 148-51

Poem Title:

The Indifference.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Strephon O Strephon once the jolliest lad

Page No:

pp. 152-5

Poem Title:

A Pastoral Dialogue.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

If I my Celia could persuade

Page No:

pp. 156-7

Poem Title:

To a Lady, who fled the Sight of him.

Attribution:

By Sir George Etherege.

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

It is not Celia in our power

Page No:

pp. 158-9

Poem Title:

To a Lady, asking him how long he would Love her.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

An early plant which such a blossom bears

Page No:

p. 159

Poem Title:

To Mr. G. Granville, on his Verses to the King.

Attribution:

By Mr. Edmund Waller.

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

When into Lybia the young Grecian came

Page No:

pp. 160-1

Poem Title:

To Mr. Waller.

Attribution:

By Mr. G. Granville.

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

The sirens once deluded vainly charmed

Page No:

pp. 162-3

Poem Title:

On Myra's Singing.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Tune thy harmonious lyre begin my muse

Page No:

pp. 164-6

Poem Title:

In Praise of Myra.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Prepared to rail resolved to part

Page No:

p. 167

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

So smooth and so serene but now

Page No:

p. 168

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Why Granville is thy life confined

Page No:

pp. 169-70

Poem Title:

Verses Sent from an Unknown Hand, to Mr. G. Granville, in the Countrey.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me no more you love in vain

Page No:

pp. 171-2

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By Sir George Etherege.

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Madam with so much wonder we are struck

Page No:

pp. 173-6

Poem Title:

To her Excellence, the Marchioness of New-Castle, After the Reading of Her Incomparable Poems.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Many have been the vain attempts of wit

Page No:

pp. 177-9

Poem Title:

Epilogue to Tartuffe, Spoken by Himself.

Attribution:

By a Person of Honour.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

After a pretty amorous discourse

Page No:

pp. 180-3

Poem Title:

The Imperfect Enjoyment.

Attribution:

By Sir George Etherege.

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Tis not in this as in the former age

Page No:

pp. 184-6

Poem Title:

A Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the Duke's New Play-House.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Fair Amarillis on the stage whilst you

Page No:

pp. 187-8

Poem Title:

Falling in Love with a Stranger at a Play.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Love when 'tis true needs not the aid

Page No:

pp. 189-90

Poem Title:

Indifference Excused.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

As there is music uninformed by art

Page No:

pp. 191-7

Poem Title:

To my Honoured Friend Sir Robert Howard, On His Excellent Poems.

Attribution:

By Mr. John Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

What is it to us who guides the state

Page No:

pp. 198-200

Poem Title:

An Ode in Imitation of ---Quid Bellicosus Catabor, &c. Hor. Od. 11. Lib. 2.

Attribution:

By Mr. John How.

Attributed To:

John How

First Line:

Fair Octavia you are much to blame

Page No:

pp. 201-2

Poem Title:

The Platonick.

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Phillis this mighty zeal assuage

Page No:

pp. 203-4

Poem Title:

To a Devout Young Woman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

When Aurelia first became

Page No:

pp. 205-6

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Home shepherds to your cottages retire

Page No:

pp. 207-11

Poem Title:

On the Lamented Death Of the Late Countess of Dorset.

Attribution:

By N. Tate, Servant Their Majesties.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Chloris I cannot say your eyes

Page No:

pp. 212-3

Poem Title:

To Chloris

Attribution:

By Sir Charles Sedley.

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Aurelia art thou mad

Page No:

pp. 214-5

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Love still has something of the sea

Page No:

pp. 216-8

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Amintas I am come alone

Page No:

pp. 219-23

Poem Title:

A Dialogue Between Amintas and Celia.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

How doth the mournful widowed city bow

Page No:

pp. 224-30

Poem Title:

The Lamentations of Jeremiah.

Attribution:

By Mrs Wharton.

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

All things submit themselves to your command

Page No:

pp. 232-5

Poem Title:

To Celia.

Attribution:

By an Unknown Hand.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As he lay in the plain his arm under his head

Page No:

pp. 236-7

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By a Person of Honour.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How hardly I concealed my tears

Page No:

pp. 238-9

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Wharton.

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

When the tempestuous sea did foam and roar

Page No:

pp. 240-1

Poem Title:

On The Storm Between Gravesend and Diepe; Made at that Time.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

In pleasing transport rapt my thoughts aspire

Page No:

pp. 242-4

Poem Title:

To Mrs. A. Behn, On what she Writ of The Earl of Rochester.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

In soft complaints no longer ease I find

Page No:

pp. 245-7

Poem Title:

To Melpomene Against Complaint.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

I ask not why Astrea fled away

Page No:

pp. 248-50

Poem Title:

Wit's Abuse

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

Raising my drooping head over charged with thought

Page No:

pp. 251-2

Poem Title:

My Fate.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Anne Wharton [nee Lee]

First Line:

Our wit till Cowley did its lustre raise

Page No:

pp. 253-8

Poem Title:

On the Death Of Mr. Abraham Cowley, And His Burial In Westminster-Abbey.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Orrery.

Attributed To:

Charles Boyle

First Line:

Farewell great Charles monarch of blessed renown

Page No:

pp. 259-69

Poem Title:

On the Death of King Charles II. Writ at that Time,

Attribution:

By the Honourable Charles Montague.

Attributed To:

Charles Montagu

First Line:

As once the lion honey gave

Page No:

pp. 270-1

Poem Title:

On the Marriage of the Lady Mary With The Prince of Orange.

Attribution:

By Edmond Waller, in the Year 1677.

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller