The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Watts, A. Philips ...

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

An Epigram of Martial to Cirinus...............

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

BOOK II.

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

SACRED TO VIRTUE, HONOUR, AND PRIENDSHIP.

Ad Reverendum Virum Dominum Johannem

To her Majesty ....................................... 49 Pinhorne, fidnm Adolescentiæ meæ Præcep-

Palinodia ......... ...................................

torem. Pindarici Carminis Specimen.......... ib.

To John 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-

Sickness............................................

ronetum .......................................... 12

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 ...........

printed ............................................

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

False Greatness ...................................

Wells ..

Sarissa. An Epistle ............................

To Mr. Thomas Bradbury. Paradise .........

BOOK 111.

Strict Religion very rare............... .......

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.

To Mr. C. and S. Fleetwood ............

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

An Epitaph on King William ...

Od. ii. imitated ..............

On the sudden Death of Mrs. Mary Peacock.

True Monarchy .................................... 54

An Elegiac Song ............

True Courage ...........

Epitaphium viri venerabilis Dom. N. Mathur

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. Anne Warner . ib.
losopby..........

An elegiac Tbought 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 ....

A funeral Poem on the Death of Thomas

The Disappointment and Relief ...

Gunston, Esq. ...... ........

The Hero's School of Morality ........

Elegy on the Death of the Reverend Mr.

....

Freedom

Thomas Gouge......

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

On Mr. Locke's Annotations upon several Parts

DIVINE SONGS FOR CHILDREN.

of the New Testament, left behind him at

his Death ............

Preface ...............

True Riches .......................

A general Song of Praise to God .............

The Adventrous Muse..........

Praise for Creation and Providence ............

To Mr. Nicholas Clark. The Complaint ...

Praise to God for our Redemption ................

The Afflictions of a Friend ........................ Praise to God for Mercies spiritual and tem-

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

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

of Namur. The Hardy Soldier ...........

Land............

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

bam, Dryden, &c. ..........

ib. | The Excellency of the Bible .....

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

Few happy Matches ............

ib. The all-seeing God ..........

To David Polhill, Esq. An Epistle.........

Solemn Thoughts of God and Death..........

The celebrated Victory of the Poles over Os Heaven and Hell..............

man the Turkish Emperor in the Dacian The Advantages of early Religion ....

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

Od, iv .........

Examples of early Piety......

To Mr. Henry Bendish. The Indian Philosopher Against lying ...........
The Happy Man .............

Against quarrelling and fighting
To David Polhill, Esq. An Answer to an in Love betweeu Brothers and Sisters .........

famous Satire against King William ......... Against scoffing and calling Names ........
To the Discontented and Unquiet, imitated Against swearing, and cursing, and taking

partly from Casimire, Book iv. Od. xv...... God's Name in vain ...........
To John Hartopp, Esq. (afterwards Sir John Against Idleness and Mischief ...........,

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

Against Pride in Clothes............
To Thomas Gunston, Esq. Happy Solitude. | Obedience to Parents ............

Casimire, Book is. Ode xii. imitated ....... ib. The Child's Complaint ................
To John Hartopp, Esq. (afterwards Sir John | A Morning Song

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

To Mitio, my friend. An Epistle...... ib. For the Lord's Day Moruing ...........

Page

Page 1

For the Lord's Day Evening ............. 93

A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF MORAL SONGS.

The Ten Commandments, out of the Old Tes The Sluggard

tament ...........

ib. Innocent Play ...........

The Sum of the Commandments, out of the The Rose ....

New Testament

ib. The Thief ......

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

Duty to God and our Neighbour

ib. Good Resolutions.........

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

Glory to the Father and the Son, &c. ......... ib. 'A Cradle Hymn .., .....

The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ............ 99, To the right honourable William Pulteney,

Dedication .........

105 Esq. .................

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

1001 Arms................................................

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

To the right bonourable Robert Walpole, Esq. 124

The third Pastoral. Albino

.. 111

Supplication for Miss Carteret, in the Small

The fourth Pastoral. Myco, Argol

The fifth Pastoral. Cuddy

114

To Miss Georgiana, youngest Daughter to Lord

Carteret

The sixth Pastoral. Geron, Hobbinol, Lanquet 115

The stray Nymph ...................

EPIGRAMS AND SHORT POEMS.

The happy Swain

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

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

EPISTLES.

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 ...................."

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

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

Year 1703.

117

On Wit and Wisdom. A Fragment ............ ib.

To the Earl of Dorset..........

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....

jesty ............

118

To the honourable James Craggs, Esq. Secre-

TRANSLATIONS.

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

ODES. . .

Agrigentum, victorious in the Chariot-race. 129

Song --From White's and Will's ............... ib. / The first Ode of Anacreon. On bis Lute...... 130

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

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 ................. ib. A Fragment of Sappho ............

.... ib.

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

Earl Cowper..

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

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The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ............. 135, The third Olympic Ode ............

Dedication .......

139 The fifth Olympic Ode .....

Preface.............

141 The seventh Olympie Ode ........

Ode occasioned by reading Mr. West's Trans The eleventh Olympic Ode ...

lation of Pindar: by the Rev. Mr. Joseph The twelfth Olympic Ode .........

Warton................................................ 147 | The fourteenth Olympic Ode.............

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

ODES OF PINDAR.

The first Nemean Ode......................

The first Olympic Ode .........

149 The eleventh Nemean Ode..........

The second Olympic 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 .............. ......... 167 Queen .......................................

............ 180

The Story of Phineus. From the same ...... 168 Father Francis's Prayer. Written in Lord
The Hymn of Cleanthes ........... ......... 169 Westmorland's Hermitage....
The Triumphs of the Gout. Translated from An Inscription on the Cell ....... ...... 188

the Greek of Lucian ........... ......... 170 | An Inscription in the Cell ...........

On the Abuse of Travelling. A Canto, in Inscription on a Summer-House belonging to

Imitation of Spenser ........ ......... 175) Mr, West, at Wickam, in Kent...........

The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson .......... 191 | Ode to Liberty......

200
Ode to a Lady, on the Death of Col. Charles

ORIENTAL ECLOGUES.

Ross, in the Action at Fontenoy. Written

I. Selim ; or, the Shepherd's Moral ......... 195 May, 1745 .........
II. Hassan; or, the Camel Driver ............ 196 | Ode to Evening ..................................... 902
III. Abra; or, the Georgian Sultana ......... ib. Ode to Peace .........

ib.
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

Ode to Fear............ .............................. 198 | Dirge in Cymbeline................................... 205

Ode to Simplicity .................................. ib. Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson ............ ib.

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-

Ode to Mercy .................

.......... 200 legorical ................

.............. 212

Ode to Pitv ..........................................

, on nis KAILIONI 01 Sula Kopeait

POEMS OF DYER.

The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ............. 221 | The Enquiry

251

Grongar Hill .....

223 An Epistle to a famous Painter ........... ib.

The Ruins of Rome...

224 To Aaron Hill, Esq. .......

The Fleece, Book I.

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

II. ...

234 Esq. ...................................................

III. ...

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

IV..

244 An Epistle to a Friend in Town ...................

The Country Walk ..........

250 To Mr. Dyer, By Clio .....

.259

POEMS OF SHENSTONE.

The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ............ 257 | Elegy II. On posthumous Reputation. To a

Friend ...................

.......................... 967

ELEGIES WRITTEN ON MANY DIFFERENT OCCASIONS.

III. On the untimely Death of a certain

A prefatory Essay on Elegy ...................... 263

learned Acquaintance............... 268

Elegy I. He arrives at his Retirement in the

IV. Ophelia's Urn. To Mr. Graves ... ib.

Country, and takes occasion to

V. He compares the Turbulence of Love

expatiate in Praise of Simplicity.

with the Tranquillity of Friendship.

To a Friend ........................... 267

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

......... 269

......

ICE.

.........

287

.........

......

Page

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

Birds ........

about her Manner of Expression

285

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

quaintance .......

Ode to Indolence. 1750

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

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 ...

to a Friend .........

An irregular Ode after Sickness, 1749

19 .........

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

.... 288

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

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

Jago .........

ib. I Anacreontic, 1758.-— 'Twas in a cool Aonian

XII. His Recantation......................

glade

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

sion estranged from him ......... ib.

aid alone ...............***.tr

ib.

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

reign Countries, he takes Occasion

to jotimate the Advantages of his

SONGS, WRITTEN CHIEFLY BETWEEN THE YEARS 1737

own. To Lord Temple ............ ib.

AND 1742.

XV. In Memory of a private Family in

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

Worcestershire ...................... 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 Superciliousness that is

V, On every tree, in every plain .........

built upon that sole Foundation... 274 VI. The Attribute of Venus........

XVII, He indulges the Suggestions of

VII. 1741.-- The lovely Delia smiles again.

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

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

the green ...

cerning Shepherd ; lamenting the

IX. 1743.- Valentine's Day ............... ib.
State of the woollen Manufactory. ib. X. 1743.—The fatal bours are wondrous

XIX. Written in Spring, 1743 ............ 276

near

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

meers .......

miserable Servitude of an African XIII. The Scholar's Relapse

Slave ................................ 277

XIV. The Rose. Bud .....

XXI. Taking a View of the Country from

XV. Winter. 1746

bis Retirement, he is led to medi-

XVI, Daphne's Visit

tate on the Character of the an-

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

cient Britons. Written at the XVIII. When bright Opbelia treads the green.

Time of a rumoured Tax upon

XIX. Yes, these are the scenes where with

Luxury, 1746 .. .................... ib.

Iris I stray'd. Imitated from the

XXII. Written in the Year , when the

French .........

Rights of Sepulture were so fre A Parody ..........................................

quently violated ..................... 278 | The Halcyon ......................................
XXIII. Reflections suggested by his Situa Ode.-So dear my Lucio is to me............

tion .................................... 279 A pastoral Ode To the honou able Sir Ri-
XXIV. He takes occasion from the fate of

chard Lyttleton ............. ...........
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 Delia, with some Flowers; .com-

young ............................................

plaiping how much his Benevo Comparison .......................................... 296

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

humble Portune ..................... 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 .................................. 298

II. Hope .................................... ib.

III. Solicitude ............................. 999

ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c.