ON A BATTERED BEAUTY. HAIR, wax, rouge, honey, teeth you buy, A mask at once would all supply, ON PEDIGREE. FROM EPICHARMUS. My mother! if thou love me, name no more As to their only refuge, all from whom Of all his kindred, one, who cannot trace BY MOSCHUS. I SLEPT when Venus enter'd: to my bed "Shepherd, receive my little one! I bring Such were my themes; my themes nought heeded he The pangs that mortals and immortals prove Thus was the teacher by the pupil taught; BY PHILEMON. OFT we enhance our ills by discontent, But to exclaim, "Ah! wherefore was I born, EPIGRAMS TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF OWEN. ON ONE IGNORANT AND ARROGANT. THOU mayst of double ignorance boast, PRUDENT SIMPLICITY. THAT thou mayst injure no man, dove-like be, And serpent-like, that none may injure thee! SUNSET AND SUNRISE. CONTEMPLATE, when the sun declines, TO A FRIEND IN DISTRESS. I WISH thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend; For when at worst, they say, things always mend. RETALIATION. THE works of ancient bards divine, WHEN little more than boy in age, THE END. GALL & INGLIS' Landscape Edition of the Poets. 1. COWPER'S Poetical Works, including the Olney Hymns, Latin Poems, Translations, &c. 2. SCOTT'S Poetical Works. 3. MILTON'S Poetical Works, including the Sonnets, Psalms, Latin and Italian Translations. 4. CRABBE'S Poetical Works. 5. LONGFELLOW'S Poetical Works. 6. KIRKE WHITE'S Poetical and Prose Works, including his Letters and Melancholy Hours. 7. CAMPBELL'S Poetical Works. 8. GOLDSMITH'S Poetical and Prose Works, including the Essays, Plays, Vicar of Wakefield, &c. 9. WORDSWORTH'S Poetical Works. 10. BYRON'S Poetical Works. Family Edition. 11. BURNS' Poetical Works and Letters. Family Edition, with Copious Marginal Explanations of the Scotch Words. 12. MOORE'S Poetical Works. 13. POPE'S Poetical Works. -14. HERBERT and Heber's Poetical Works. 15. MONTGOMERY'S (James) Poetical Works. 16. GLEANINGS from the English Poets: Being Extracts in Chronological Order, from about Two Hundred of the Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to Tennyson, with a Short Notice of each Author prefixed. 17. SHAKESPEARE'S Dramatic Works. (No Borders.) 18. YOUNG'S (Edward) Complete Poetical Works. 19. COLERIDGE'S Poetical Works. 20. TUPPER'S (Martin F.) Select Miscellaneous Poems. 21. SACRED Gleanings from the Poets: Extracts in Chronological Order, from Two Hundred and Fifty of the Sacred Poets of all Countries, with Short Notices of the Authors. 22. HEMANS' Poetical Works. GEMS from Great Authors (Prose), selected by JOHN TILLOTSON. LONDON: 25 PATERNOSTER SQ. | EDINBURGH: 20 BERNARD TER. |