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Hope in Darkness

47 The Mourning Piece

Come, Lord Jesus

ib. The second Part: or, the Bright Vision 68

Bewailing my own Inconstancy

48 The third Part : or, the Account balanced 70

Forsaken, yet hoping

ib. On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester, just

The Conclusion. God exalted above all Praise ib. after Mr. Dryden. An Epigram

ib.
An Epigram of Martial to Cirinus...

ib.

Epistola Pratri suo dilecto R. W. J.W. S. P.D. 71

Fratris E.W, olim navigaturo......

SACRED TO VIRTUE, HONOUR, AND FRIENDSHIP.

Ad Reverendum Virum Dominum Johannem

49 Pinhorne, fidom Adolescentiæ meæ Præcep-

50 torem. Pindarici Carminis Specimen..........

To Join Locke, Esq. retired from Business ib. / Votum : seu Vita in Terris beata. Ad Virum

To John Shute, Esq. On Mr.Locke's dangerous dignissimum Johannem Hartoppum, Ba-

To Mr. William Nokes. Friendship.

ib. To Mrs. Singer, afterwards Mrs. Rowe, on the

To Nathanael Gould, Esq. afterwards Sir Na- Sight of some of her Divine Poems, never
thanael Gould
ib. printed .....

73

To Dr. Thomas Gibson. The Life of Souls... 51 Stanzas to Lady Sunderland, at Tunbridge

False Greatness

Sarissa. An Epistle

To Mr Thomas Bradbury. Paradise

Strict Religion very rare...

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.

To Mr. C. and S Fieetwood

To William Blackbourn, Esq. Casimire, Lib. ii.

An Epitaph on King William

Od. ii. imitated

On the sudden Death of Mrs. Mary Peacock.

An Elegiac Song

ib. Epitaphium viri venerabilis Dom. N. Mathur 75

To the much-honoured Mr. Thomas Rowe, the

To the Reverend Mr. John Shower, on the
Director of my youthful Studies. Free Phi-

Death of his Daughter Mrs. Apne Warner. ib.

An elegiac Thought on Mrs. Anne Warner ... ib.

To the Reverend Mr. Benoni Rowe. The Way

On the Death of an aged and honoured Rela-

of the Multitude

tive, Mrs. M. W....

To the Reverend Mr. John Howe

ib.

A funeral Poem on the Death of Thomas

The Disappointment and Relief ..

The Hero's School of Morality

ib. Elegy on the Death of the Reverend Mr.

Thomas Gouge....

On Mr. Locke's Annotations upon several Parts

DIVINE SONGS FOR CHILDREN,

of the New Testament, left behind him at

57 Preface ........

ib. A general Song of Praise to God

The Adventrous Muse....

58 Praise for Creation and Providence

To Mr. Nicholas Clark. The Complaint ib. Praise to God for our Redemption

ib.
The Amfictions of a Friend

59 Praise to God for Mercies spiritual and tem-

The Reverse: or, the Comforts of a Friend... ib. poral...

To the right hon. John Lord Cutts, at the Siege Praise for Birth and Education in a Christian

of Namur. The Hardy Soldier

ib. Land.......

Burning several Poems of Ovid, Martial, Old- Praise for the Gospel

ham, Dryden, &c.

ib. The Excellency of the Bible.

To Mrs. B. Bendish. Against Tears..... 60 Praise to God for learning to read..

ib.

Few happy Matches

ib. The all-seeing God

To David Polhill, Esq. An Epistle....... 61 Solemn Thoughts of God and Death..... ib.
The celebrated Victory of the Poles over Os- Heaven and Hell....

ib,
man the Turkish Emperor in the Dacian The Advantages of early Religion

ib.

Battle. Translated from Casimire, Book iv. The Danger of Delay

ib. Examples of early Piety.

To Mr. Henry Bendish. The Indian Philosopher 63 Against lying

ib.
The Happy Man.
ib. Against quarrelling and fighting

ib.
To David Polhill, Esq. An Answer to an in- Love bctweeu Brothers and Sisters

ib.

famous Satire against King William 64 Against scoffing and calling Names

To the Discontented and Unquiet, imitated Agaiast swearing, and cursing, and taking
partly from Casimire, Book iv. Od. xv...... 65 God's Name in vain

ib.
To John Hartopp, Esq. (afterwards Sir John Against Idleness and Mischief

ib.
Hartopp, Bart.) Casimire, Book i. Ode iv. Against evil Company

ib.

66 Against Pride in Clothes..

To Thomas Gunston, Esq. Happy Solitude. Obedience to Parents

92
Casimire, Book iv. Ode xii. imitated ib. The Child's Complaint

ib.
To John Hartopp, Esq. (afterwards Sir John A Morning Song

ib,
Hartopp, Bart.) The Disdain
67 An Evening Song

ib.

To Mitio, my Friend. An Epistle..... ib.! For the Lord's Day Morning ....

ib,

For the Lord's Day Evening

A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OP MORAL SONGS.

The Ten Commandments, out of the Old Tes- The Sluggard

ib. Innocent Play

The Sum of the Commandments, out of the The Rose

Our Saviour's Golden Rule, Matthew vii. 12. ib. The Ant or Emmet

Duty to God and our Neighbour

ib. Good Resolutions......

The Hosapna : or Salvation ascribed to Christ ib. A Summer Evening

Glory to the Father and the Son, &c.

ib. ' A Cradle Hymn

ib.
ib.

POEMS OF A. PHILIPS.

ib.

............

The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson

99 , To the right honourable William Pulteney,

Preface to the Pastoral Poems

107 To Miss Margaret Pulteney, (Daughter of

Daniel Pulteney, Esq.) in the Nursery ib.

PASTORAL POEMS.

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney, in her Mother's

The first Pastoral. Lobbin

The second Pastoral. Thenot, Colinet...... 110

To the right honourable Robert Walpole, Esq. 124

The third Pastoral. Albino

iu Supplication for Miss Carteret, in the Small-

The fourth Pastoral. Myco, Argol

The fifth Pastoral. Cuddy

To Miss Georgiana, youngest Daughter to Lord

The sixth Pastoral. Geron, Hobbinol, Lanquet 115.

The stray Nymph

EPIGRAMS AND SHORT POEMS.

The happy Swain

Upon the Toasts of the Hanover Club .... ib

On a Company of bad Dancers to good Music ib.

Epigram.-George came to the crown without

To a Friend who desired me to write on the

striking a blow......

Death of King William

ib. In Answer to the Question, What is thought ? ib.

From Holland, to a friend in England, in the To Mr. Addison on Cato ......

117 On Wit and Wisdom. A Fragment

To the Earl of Dorset......

ib. Epitaph written on the Monument of my Kins-

To the right hon. Charles Lord Halifax, one

woman, at the Request of her Husband 126

of the Lords Justices appointed by his Ma- The Fable of Thule, unfinished .................. ib.
jesty.

118

To the honourable James Craggs, Esq. Secre-

tary at War, at Hampton-Court

The first Olympionique of Pindar. To Hiero

To Lord Carteret, departing from Dublin...... 120

of Syracuse, victorious in the Horse-race... 127

The second Olympionique. To Theron of

Agrigentum, victorious in the Chariot-race. 129

Song - From White's and Will's

ib. The first Ode of Anacreon. On his Lute...... 130

Song.-Why we love, and why we bate......... ib. / The second Ode. On Women

ib.

To Signora Cuzzoni......

ib. The third Ode. On Love

To the Memory of the late Earl of Halifax... 121 A Hymn to Venus. From the Greek of Sappho ib.

To the honourable Miss Carteret

A Fragment of Sappho

On the Death of the right honourable William To Mr. Ambrose Philips, on his Distrest Mo-
Earl Cowper.......

ther. Anonymous; from Steele's Collection. ib,

ODES.

illia. ib.

The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson

135 | The third Olympic Ode

139 The fifth Olympic Ode

Preface.........

141 The seventh Olympic Ode

Ode occasioned by reading Mr. West's Trans- The eleventh Olympic Ode
lation of Pindar : by the Rev. Mr. Josephy,

The twelfth Olympic Ode

147 | The fourteenth Olympic Ode..

The first Pythian Ode.........

ODES OP PINDAR. N

The first Nemean Ode....

The first Olympic Ode

149 The eleventh Nemean Ode.....

The second Olyropic Ode

151 | The second Isthmian Ode

The Song of Orpheus, and the setting out of Education: a Poem, written in Imitation of

the Argo. Translated from the Argonautics the Style and Manuer of Spenser's Fairy

of Apollonius Rhodius ....

The Story of Phineus. From the same 168 Father Francis's Prayer. Written in Lord

The Hymn of Cleanthes

169 Westmorland's Hermitage..

..................... 187

The Triumphs of the Gout. Translated from An Inscription on the Cell

the Greek of Lucian

170 An Inscription in the Cell

On the se of Travelling. A Canto, in Ioscription on a Summer-House belonging to
Imitation of Spenser

175
Mr. West, at Wickam, in Kent.....

ib.

POEMS OF COLLINS.

ORIENTAL ECLOGUES.

The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson

191 | Ode to Liberty.........

Ode to a Lady, on the Death of Col. Charles

Ross, in the Action at Fontenoy. Written

I. Selim ; or, the Shepherd's Moral

II. Hassan; or, the Camel Driver

196 Ode to Evening

Ill. Abra; or, the Georgian Sultana

ib. | Ode to Peace

IV. Agib and Secander; or, the Fugitives 197 The Manners, An Ode

ib.
The Passions. An Ode for Music....

203

ODES, DESCRIPTIVE AND ALLEGORICAL.

An Epistle addressed to Sir Thomas Hanmer,

ib. on his Edition of Shakspeare's Works 204

198 Dirge in Cymbeline......

Ode to Simplicity

ib. Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson

Ode on the poetical Character

199 Song - Young Damon of the vale is dead...... 209

Ode, written in the Year 1746.--How sleep Observations on the Oriental Eclogues .. ib.
the brave who sink to rest

ib. Observations on the Odes descriptive and al-

The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson

221 | The Enquiry

223 An Epistle to a famous Painter

The Ruins of Rome... ...

.... 224 To Aaron Hill, Esq.

The Fleece. Book I.

............ 228 The Choice. To Mr. Dyer. By Aaron Hill,

............. 234

......................... 239 To Mr. Savage. Son of the late Earl Rivers.. ib.

244 An Epistle to a friend in Town

The Country Walk .......... .......... 250 | To Mr. Dyer. By Clio

ib.

POEMS OF SHENSTONE.

The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson

257 | Elegy II. On posthumous Reputation. To a

ELEGIES WRITTEN ON MANY DIFFERENT OCCASIONS.

III. On the untimely Death of a certain

A prefatory Essay on Elegy

learned Acquaintance....

Elegy I. He arrives at his Retirement in the

IV. Ophelia's Urn. To Mr. Graves

Cnuntry, and takes occasion to

V. He compares the Turbulence of Love

expatiate in Praise of Simplicity.

with the Tranquillity of Friendship.

To Melissa, his Friend ............ 269

........

ib.

ib.

272

ib.

......... 291

VI. To a Lady. On the Language of Ode to a young Lady, somewhat too solicitous

269 about her Manner of Expression

VII. He describes his Vision to an Ac- Nancy of the Vale. A Ballad

ib.

ib. Ode to Indolence. 1750

VIII. He describes his early Love of Po- Ode to Health. 1730

ib.
etry, and its Consequences. To To a Lady of Quality, fitting up her Library,
Mr. Graves, 1745

270 1738.

IX. He describes his Disinterestedness Upon a Visit to the same, in Winter, 1748

ib. An irregular Ode after Sickness, 1749

X. To Fortune, suggesting his Motive To a Lady, with some coloured Patterns of
for repining at her Dispensations. 271 Flowers, October 7, 1736

286

XI. He complains how soon the pleasing Written in a Flower-Book of my owo Colour-

Novelty of Life is over. To Mr. ing, designed for. Lady Plymouth, 1753-4... 289

ib. Anacreontic, 1738.—'Twas in a cool Aonian

XII. His Recantation.......

XUI. To a Friend, on some slight (cca- Ode. Written 1739,-'Twas not by beauty's

sion estranged from him

XIV. Declining an Invitation to visit fo- The.dying Kid............

ib.

reign Countries, he takes Occasion

to intimate the Advantages of his

SONGS, WRITTEN CHIEFLY BETWEEN THE YEARS 1737

own. - To Lord Temple ..

XV. In Memory of a private Family in

I. I told my nymph, I told her true...... 290

273 II. The Landscape

XVI. He suggests the Advantages of Birth

III, Ye gentle nymphs and generous dames. ib.

to a Person of Merit, and the

IV. The Sky-Lark ...

Folly of a Saperciliousness that is

V. On every tree, in every plain

built upon that sole Foundation... 274

VI. The Attribute of Vepus................... ib.

XVII. He indulges the Suggestions of VII. 1741.–The lovely Delia smiles again. ib.

Spleen. An Elegy to the Winds. 275 VIII. 1742.-When bright Roxana treads

XVIII. He repeats the Song of Collin, a dis-

cerning Shepherd ; lamenting the

IX. 1743.- Valentine's Day

State of the woollen Manufactory. ib. X, 1743.-The fatal hours are wondrous
XIX. Written in Spring, 1743
276

ib.

XX. He compares his humble Fortune

XI. 1744.—Perhaps it is not love, said I., 292

with the Distress of others; and

XII. 1744.-O'er desert plains, and rushy

his Subjection to Delia with the

miserable Servitude of an African

XIII. The Scholar's Relapse

277 XIV. The Rose Bud

XXI. Taking a View of the Country from

XV. Winter. 1746

his Retirement, he is led to medi- XVI. Daphne's Visit

tate on tbe Character of the an-

XVII. Adieu, ye jovial youths, who join...... ib.

cient Britons. Written at the XVIII. When bright Ophelia treads the green. ib.

Time of a rumoured Tax upon

XIX. Yes, these are the scenes where with

Luxury, 1746 .. ...

Iris I stray'd. Imitated from the

XXII. Written in the Year, when the

Rights of Sepulture were so fre- A Parody

qnently violated
278 The Halcyon

ib.

XXIII. Reflections suggested by his Situa- Ode.--So dear my Lucio is to me

tion .....

279 A pastoral Ode To the honourable Sir Ri-
XXIV. He takes occasion from the Pate of chard Lyttleton

ib.

Eleanor of Bretagne, to suggest Verses written towards the Close of the Year

the imperfect Pleasures of a soti- 1748, to William Lyttleton, Esq.

tary Life ......

280 | Love and Music. Written at Oxford, wben

XXV. To Délia, with some Flowers ; com-

plaining how much his Benevo- Comparison

lence suffers on Account of his Ode to Cynthia, on the Approach of Spring ... 297

ib. Jemmy Dawson, a Ballad; written about the

XXVI. Describing the Sorrow of an ingenu. Time of his Execution, in the Year 1745... ib.

ous Mind, on the melancholy A pastoral Ballad, in four Parts, 1743.

Event of a licentious Amour

281 Part I. Absence

III. Solicitude

ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c.

IV. Disappointment.....

Rural Elegance. Au Ode to the late Dutchess
of Somerset

282

LEVITIES; OR, PIECES OF HUMOUR.

Ode to Memory. 1748.

284 Flirt and Phil; a Decision for the Ladies .... 300

The Princess Elizabeth : a Ballad, alluding to Stanzas to tbe Memory of an agreeable Lady,

a Story recorded of her, when she was Pri- buried in Marriage to a Person undeserving
Syder at Woodstock, 1554 ....
ib. her

ib.

b

Colemira. A culinary Eclogue

300 VII. On a Seat

The Rape of the Trap. A Ballad. 1737 301 VIII. On the Assignation Seat

ib.

On certain Pastorals

ib. IX. On an ornamented Urn

On Mr. C- of Kidderminster's Poetry ib. X. On a Seat

ib.

To the Virtuosos ...

XI. On a Seat at the Bottom of a large

The Extent of Cookery

Root, on the side of a Slope

The Progress of Advice. A common Case ib. XII. On a small Obelisk in Virgil's Grove. ib.

A Ballad.-Prom London to Lincoln rode forth XIII. On a Stone by a Chalybeat Spring ... ib.

our young squire

ib. XIV. On a stone Seat, making Part of a Cave. ib.

Slender's Ghost

ib. XV. On two Seats, to two of his most par-

ticular Friends

The Price of an Equipage

ib. XVI. On a Statue of Venus de Medicis ib.

Hint from Voiture.

ib. XVII, Intended to be written at the Begin-

Inscription to the Memory of A. L. Esq. ib.

ning of a Collection of Flowers,

To a Frieod ...

which Mr. Shenstone coloured for

The Poet and the Dun, 1941

Written at an Inn at Henley.

305 | XVIII. Proposed to Mr. Graves by Mr. Shen-

Simile.-What village but has sometimes seen. ib.

stone, as a proper Inscription for

The Charms of Precedence. A Tale ...... ib.

Ode to be performed by Dr. Brettle, and a

VERSES TO SHENSTONE.

Chorus of Hales-Owen Citizens

............... 306

Cupid and Plutus

307 Written on a Ferme Ornée, near Birmingham,

By the late Lady Luxborough

To William Shenstone, Esq. at the Leasowes.

The Judgment of Hercules

The Progress of Taste, or the Fate of Delicacy. 31 1

Verses received by the Post, from a Lady un-

Économy. A Rhapsody, addressed to young

known

ib.

On the Discovery of an Echo at Edgbaston.

The Ruined Abbey; or, the Effects of Super-

Verses by Mr. Dodsley, on his first Arrival at

Love and Honour

the Leasowes, 1754....

The School-Mistress. In Imitation of Spenser. 326 To Mr. R. D. on the Death of Mr. Shenstone. ib.

Epitaph. On Miss Anne Powell

Verses written at the Gardens of William

............... 329

Shenstone, Esq. near Birmingbam, 1756 ... 334

To William Shenstone, Esq. in his Sickness.

By Mr. Woodhouse.....

1. On a Tablet against a Root-House ib. Verses left on a Seat, the Hand unkuown 335

Il. On an Urn ......

ib. Corydon, a Pastoral. To the Memory of Wild
Ill. To Mr. Dodsley ...

ib. liam Shenstone, Esq. By Cunningham ib.

IV. On the Back of a Gothic Seat

ib. M. S. Gulielmi Shenstone

V. On the Back of a Gothic Alcore

329 Extract from Mr. Mason's English Garden,
VI. On a Seat, under a spreading Beech..... 330 Book i...

ib.

...

POEMS OF YOUNG.

The Author's Life, by the Rev. Sir Herbert Satire IV. To the right hon. Sir Spencer

Croft, and Dr. Johnson

Compton ........................ 389

Verses to the Author

The last Day. In three Books.

VI. On Woinen. Inscribed to the

right hon. the Lady Elizabeth

VII. To the right hou. Sir Robert

The Force of Religion, or vanquished Love,

.......... 371 | An Ode to the King

579 On lyric Poetry

Ocean. An Ode......

Love of Fame, the universal Passion, in scven Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job..... 409

characteristical Satires.

Notes on the Paraphrase

381 On Dr. Young's Translation of Part of Job 413

Satire I. To bis grace the Duke of Dorset. 382

III. To the right hon. Mr. Dodding- On Michael Angelo's famous Piece of the Cru-
387 cifixion,

ib.

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