Poems on several occasions: by His Grace the Duke of Buckingham... And other eminent Hands. [T42637]

DMI number:

348

Aliases

Pope's own miscellany

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1717

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T42637

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111888887

Shelfmark:

BL C.124.g.3

Full Title:

POEMS | ON | Several Occasions: | BY | [2 cols.] [col. 1][i]His Grace the Duke | of[/i] Buckingham, | [i]Mr[/i]. Wycherly, | [i]Lady[/i] Winchelsea,[/col. 1] [col. 2][i]Sir[/i] Samuel Garth, | N. Rowe, [i]Esq[/i]; | [i]Mrs[/i]. Singer, | Bevil Higgons, [i]Esq[/i];[/col. 2] | And other eminent Hands. | [ornament] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for BERNARD LINTOT between | the [i]Temple-[/i]Gates, 1717.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[8], [1]-192, 177-228, [2].

Bibliographic details:

Sheet *N follows N, and mispagination (i.e. beginning again from 177) occurs at this point.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Table of contents [5pp.], erratum [1p.] Back matter: list of books printed by Bernard Lintot [2pp.]

References:

Case 260 (2) (a)

Related Miscellanies

Title:

Poems on several occasions [N20604] [*IR*]

Publication Date:

1717

ESTC No:

N20604

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

Alexander Pope

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

ESTC: 'Including contributions by Alexander Pope; the whole probably edited by him.'

Printer:

William Bowyer

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

ESTC: 'Printed by William Bowyer.'

Publisher:

(Barnaby) Bernard Lintot [Lintott]

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for BERNARD LINTOT between the Temple-Gates.'

Content/Publication

First Line:

As when great kings with petty princes join

Page No:

pp.1-7

Poem Title:

An Epistle To Mr. Dryden, From Mr. Wycherley. Occasion'd by his Proposal to write a Comedy together.

Attribution:

From Mr. Wycherley

Attributed To:

William Wycherley

First Line:

Shall Cooper's Hill majestic rise in rhyme

Page No:

pp.8-19

Poem Title:

Phoenix-Park.

Attribution:

By Mr. James Ward

Attributed To:

James Ward

First Line:

Since now my Sylvia is as kind as fair

Page No:

pp.20-27

Poem Title:

The Happy Night.

Attribution:

Written by the Earl of Mulgrave.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Think not my fair tis sin or shame

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Mulgrave]

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Come Pyrrha tell what lover now

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

In Imitation of Horace.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ward

Attributed To:

James Ward

First Line:

Fair as Phoebe's silver light

Page No:

pp.31-33

Poem Title:

From Johannes Secundus's Book of Kisses: The sixteenth.

Attribution:

By the same Hand.

Attributed To:

James Ward

First Line:

Be not still kissing me still smiling

Page No:

pp.34-35

Poem Title:

The Ninth.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How is our reason to the future blind

Page No:

pp.36-39

Poem Title:

From the Second Chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ward.

Attributed To:

James Ward

First Line:

My son the instruction that my words impart

Page No:

pp.39-42

Poem Title:

The seventh Chapter of the Proverbs, translated into Verse.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Ward]

Attributed To:

James Ward

First Line:

In what soft language shall my thoughts get free

Page No:

pp.43-48

Poem Title:

Upon the Death of her Husband.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Elizabeth Singer.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]

First Line:

When at our house the servants brawl

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

Verses made to a Simile of Mr. Pope's.

Attribution:

By Mr. Rowe

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Lay thy flowery garlands by

Page No:

pp.50-52

Poem Title:

Song. For the King's Birth-Day 28th of May 1716.

Attribution:

By Mr. Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Amphion strikes the vocal lyre

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

Upon Nicolini and Valentini's first coming to the House in the Hay-Market.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Rowe]

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

When fame did over the spacious plains

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

Anacreontick, to Mr. Gay

Attribution:

by Dr. Garth.

Attributed To:

Sir Samuel Garth

First Line:

Tired with vain hopes and with complaints as vain

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

Writtten [sic] over a Study; out of Maynard...In English for Sir W. Trumbull

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now blest Antonius free from hopes and fears

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

Sent to Sir Philip Meadows on his Birth-Day...In Imitation of Martial, Book 10. Epig. 23

Attribution:

by Sir William Trumbull.

Attributed To:

Sir William Trumbull

First Line:

See how the wandering Danube flows

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

On the River Danube.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

That all from Adam first begun

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

The Old Gentry, out of French.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When first thy muse in tuneful rural strains

Page No:

pp.59-62

Poem Title:

To Mr. Pope on his Translation of Homer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Two shining maids this happy scene displays

Page No:

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

To a Lady, with the Tragedy of Cato.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sun that rolls his beamy orb on high

Page No:

pp.63-70

Poem Title:

The forty third Chapter of Ecclesiasticus. Paraphrased.

Attribution:

By Mr. Broome

Attributed To:

William Broome

First Line:

Great god of art whose locks unshaven grow

Page No:

pp.70-72

Poem Title:

To Phoebus. Tibullus Eleg. iv. lib. iv.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

However great whoever you are

Page No:

pp.72-78

Poem Title:

Part of the second Chorus of Seneca's Hercules Oetaeus.

Attribution:

By Mr. James Ward.

Attributed To:

James Ward

First Line:

Twas in this shade

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As gods sometimes descend from heaven and deign

Page No:

pp.81-82

Poem Title:

Of the Lady who could not sleep in a stormy Night.

Attribution:

Verses in imitation of Waller. By a Youth of thirteen

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair charmer cease nor add your tuneful breath

Page No:

pp.82-83

Poem Title:

Of her singing to a Lute.

Attribution:

Verses in imitation of Waller. By a Youth of thirteen

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The nymph her graces here expressed may find

Page No:

p.83

Poem Title:

Of her Picture.

Attribution:

Verses in imitation of Waller. By a Youth of thirteen

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah Serenissa from our arms

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

Of her Sickness.

Attribution:

Verses in imitation of Waller. By a Youth of thirteen

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See how the sun in dusky skies

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

Of her walking in a Garden after a Shower.

Attribution:

Verses in imitation of Waller. By a Youth of thirteen

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When love would strike the offending fair

Page No:

pp.86-87

Poem Title:

Of her Sighing.

Attribution:

Verses in imitation of Waller. By a Youth of thirteen

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How lovely sorrow seems how bright

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

Weeping.

Attribution:

Verses in imitation of Cowley. By the same Hand.[i.e. youth of thirteen]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go tuneful bird forbear to soar

Page No:

pp.89-90

Poem Title:

Presenting a Lark.

Attribution:

Verses in imitation of Cowley. By the same Hand.[i.e. youth of thirteen]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail sacred spring whose fruitful stream

Page No:

pp.90-91

Poem Title:

The River.

Attribution:

Verses in imitation of Cowley. By the same Hand.[i.e. youth of thirteen]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This racer of the watry plain

Page No:

pp.92-94

Poem Title:

The Fourth Ode Of Catullus. Paraphras'd in the manner of Cowley... On the Boat that carried him into his own Countrey.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair soil thou brightest of all isles

Page No:

pp.95-96

Poem Title:

Catullus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fairest more white than falling snows

Page No:

pp.96-98

Poem Title:

Lydia Imitated from the Lyric of Corn. Gallus.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou lovely slave to a rude husband's will

Page No:

pp.99-101

Poem Title:

To the D. of R.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Mulgrave.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Bright and blooming as the spring

Page No:

pp.101-103

Poem Title:

A Dialogue sung on the Stage between an elderly Shepherd, and a very young Nymph.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Mulgrave.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Lovers who waste your thoughts and youth

Page No:

pp.103-105

Poem Title:

The Warning.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Mulgrave.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

In such a cause no muse should fail

Page No:

pp.105-106

Poem Title:

On Don Alonzo's being killed in Portugal upon account of the Infanta in the Year 1683.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Mulgrave].

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Sure I of all men am the first

Page No:

pp.107-109

Poem Title:

On apprehension of loosing for ever what he had newly gained.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Mulgrave].

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Some vex their souls with jealous pain

Page No:

pp.110-111

Poem Title:

The sad Surprize.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Mulgrave].

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Disarmed with so genteel an air

Page No:

pp.111-113

Poem Title:

To Mr. Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses, occasion'd by a little Dispute upon four Lines in the Rape of the Lock.

Attribution:

By a Lady of Quality.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy wit in vain the feeble critic gnaws

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

To Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

By Bevil Higgons Esq;

Attributed To:

Bevil Higgons

First Line:

See how firm waters wandring streams inclose

Page No:

p.115

Poem Title:

From Claudian: On a Globe of Crystal containing Water in it.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How happy he who free from care

Page No:

pp.116-117

Poem Title:

Solitude. An Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Those happy arts from their invention rise

Page No:

p.118

Poem Title:

Upon the Phenicians Inventors of Letters. From Brebaeuf...Englished

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas at the time when to the morning skies

Page No:

pp.119-122

Poem Title:

Palaemon. A Pastoral.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

All christians and lay elders too

Page No:

pp.123-126

Poem Title:

The Four-legg'd Elder.

Attribution:

By Sir John Berkenhead, Kt.

Attributed To:

Sir John Birkenhead

First Line:

All that have two or but one ear

Page No:

p.127

Poem Title:

The four-legg'd Quaker.

Attribution:

By Sir John Berkenhead.

Attributed To:

Sir John Birkenhead

First Line:

Apollo I will not implore

Page No:

pp.132-137

Poem Title:

The Monster of Ragusa, as it was seen in the Flying-Post, Feb. 1716, an excellent new Ballad.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sure sickness never such beauty wore

Page No:

pp.137-139

Poem Title:

To a young Lady, on her Sickness and Recovery.

Attribution:

By Mr. Broome.

Attributed To:

William Broome

First Line:

Ah cruel hand that could such power employ

Page No:

pp.140-142

Poem Title:

On a Lady's Picture.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Broome].

Attributed To:

William Broome

First Line:

Twas sung of old how one Amphion

Page No:

pp.142-144

Poem Title:

Poverty and Poetry.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Broome]

Attributed To:

William Broome

First Line:

My eyes with floods of tears overflow

Page No:

pp.145-146

Poem Title:

Courage in Love.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Broome]

Attributed To:

William Broome

First Line:

From peace and softer joys Medusa flies

Page No:

p.147

Poem Title:

Upon a mischievous Woman. An Epigram.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sompner lewdly hath his prologue told

Page No:

pp.147-151

Poem Title:

An Answer to the Sompners Prologue in Chaucer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

And now unveiled the toilet stands displayed

Page No:

pp.152-154

Poem Title:

Part of the first Canto of the Rape of the Lock.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pleased in these lines Belinda you may view

Page No:

pp.156-157

Poem Title:

To Belinda, on the Rape of the Lock.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The bow she strung and to the head

Page No:

pp.158-159

Poem Title:

Upon Aurelia's shooting at a Deer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where L--n wouldst thou have me go

Page No:

pp.159-161

Poem Title:

To Aurelia. Addressed to the Ld. L------n.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Brunetta would in vain conceal

Page No:

pp.161-162

Poem Title:

To Brunetta.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ask not the world what treasure it has lost

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

Upon the Lady S----d after she was dead.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Happy Cleora was the time

Page No:

pp.164-166

Poem Title:

Upon Cleora's Marriage and Retirement.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sapphires and pearls and choicest gems

Page No:

pp.166-167

Poem Title:

The King's Box to Aurelia.

Attribution:

By the same. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In her own isle the goddess lay

Page No:

pp.168-169

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

By the same.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If beauteous Kitty boasts a charm

Page No:

pp.170-171

Poem Title:

On a Picture of Mrs. Catherine L----

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here a poet you behold

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

Written by the Earl of Mulgrave to be put under his own Picture.

Attribution:

Written by the Earl of Mulgrave.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Now blow ye Southern winds with full release

Page No:

pp.172-179

Poem Title:

An Invocation to the southern Winds inscrib'd to the right honourable Charles Earl of Winchelsea at his Arrival in London, after having been long detained on the coast of Holland.

Attribution:

By the honourable Mrs Finch.

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Think not a partial fondness swayed my mind

Page No:

pp.180-184

Poem Title:

An Epistle to the honourable Mrs. Thynne, persuading her to have a Statue made of her youngest Daughter, now Lady Brooke.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [i.e. Finch]

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

How is it in this chilling time

Page No:

pp.185-189

Poem Title:

On a double Stock July-flower, full blown in January, presented to me by the Countess of Ferrers.

Attribution:

By the right honourable the Lady Winchelsea

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

A toad just crawling up to town

Page No:

pp.190-177

Poem Title:

The Toad undrest.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Winchilsea]

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

A masty of our English breed

Page No:

pp.178-181

Poem Title:

The Mastif and Curs, A Fable inscrib'd to Mr. Pope.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Winchilsea].

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

A man whose house had taken fire

Page No:

pp.181-183

Poem Title:

A Fable.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Winchilsea]

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Far in that glade where the delighted sight

Page No:

pp.184-192

Poem Title:

On Buckingham-House in St. James's Park. Written in the year 1704.

Attribution:

By Mr. Buckeredge.

Attributed To:

Baynbrigg Buckeridge

First Line:

Whither is Roman justice gone

Page No:

pp.193-195

Poem Title:

First Chorus.

Attribution:

by the present Duke of Buckingham

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Lo to prevent this mighty empire's doom

Page No:

pp.195-196

Poem Title:

Second Chorus.

Attribution:

by the present Duke of Buckingham

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Tell oh tell me whence arise

Page No:

pp.197-198

Poem Title:

After much Thunder and Lightning. Two Aerial Spirits. Third Chorus.

Attribution:

by the present Duke of Buckingham

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

What dismal curse has providence

Page No:

pp.199-200

Poem Title:

Fourth Chorus.

Attribution:

by the present Duke of Buckingham

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Dark is the maze poor mortals tread

Page No:

pp.200-202

Poem Title:

Chorus after the first Act.

Attribution:

Written by the same Hand [i.e. Buckingham], in the Year 1708

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Our vows thus cheerfully we sing

Page No:

pp.202-204

Poem Title:

Chorus of Soldiers after the fourth Act

Attribution:

Written by the same Hand [i.e. Buckingham], in the Year 1708

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Whoever thou art whom this fair statue charms

Page No:

pp.205-209

Poem Title:

On the Statue of Cleopatra, made into a Fountain by Leo the Tenth. Translated from the Latin of Count Castiglione. Cleopatra speaks.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He who beneath thy sheltering wing resides

Page No:

pp.209-211

Poem Title:

Psalm xci.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At length my soul thy fruitless hopes give over

Page No:

pp.212-213

Poem Title:

Stanzas. From the french of Malherbe.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou whose all creating hands sustain

Page No:

pp.214-215

Poem Title:

From Boetius, de cons. Philos.

Attribution:

By the same Hand. [preceding poem unattributed]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wretched mankind void both of strength and skill

Page No:

pp.216-217

Poem Title:

On the Deity.

Attribution:

By the present Duke of Buckingham.

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

Tis said that favourite mankind

Page No:

pp.218-227

Poem Title:

An Ode on Brutus.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Buckingham]

Attributed To:

John Sheffield

First Line:

When Caesar fell he braved each killing wound

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

The Fall of Caesar.

Attribution:

By the Honourable Mrs. Finch.

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]