HYMN TO THE SUN
THE LADY’S LOOKING-GLASS
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP: A PASTORAL
TO THE AUTHOR OF THE FOREGOING PASTORAL
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP:
TO THE AUTHOR OF THE FOREGOING PASTORAL.
TO A LADY, SHE REFUSING TO CONTINUE A DISPUTE WITH ME AND LEAVING ME IN THE ARGUMENT.
SEEING THE DUKE OF ORMOND’S PICTURE AT SIR GODFREY KNELLER’S
CELIA TO DAMON.
AN ODE PRESENTED TO THE KING, ON HIS MAJESTY’S ARRIVAL IN HOLLAND, AFTER THE
IN IMITATION OF ANACREON.
AN ODE.
ODE SUR LA PRISR DE NAMUR, PAR LES ARMES DU ROY, L’ANNEE MDCXCII. PAR MONSIEUR BOILEAU DESPREAUX.
AN ENGLISH BALLAD ON THE TAKING OF NAMUR BY THE KING OF
GREAT BRITAIN, MDCXCV.
PRESENTED TO THE KING, AT HIS ARRIVAL IN HOLLAND, AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF THE CONSPIRACY, MDCXCVI.
TO CLOE WEEPING.
TO MR. HOWARD.
LOVE DISARMED.
CLOE HUNTING.
CUPID AND GANYMEDE.
CUPID MISTAKEN.
VENUS MISTAKEN.
A SONG.
THE DOVE.
A LOVER’S ANGER.
MERCURY AND CUPID.
ON BEAUTY. A RIDDLE.
THE QUESTION, TO LISETTA.
LISETTA’S REPLY.
THE GARLAND.
THE LADY WHO OFFERS HER LOOKING
CLOE JEALOUS.
ANSWER TO CLOE JEALOUS.
A BETTER ANSWER.
PALLAS AND VENUS.
TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN LOVE.
AN ENGLISH PADLOCK.
HANS CARVEL.
A DUTCH PROVERB.
PAULO PURGANTI AND HIS WIFE.
THE LADLE.
WRITTEN AT PARIS, MDCC, IN THE BEGINNING OF ROBBE’S GEOGRAPHY.
WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF MEZERAY’S HISTORY OF FRANCE.
WRITTEN IN THE NOUVEAUX INTERETS DES PRINCES DE L’EUROPE.
ADRIANI MORIENTIS AD ANIMAM SUAM.
IMITATED.
A PASSAGE IN THE MORIÆ ENCOMIUM OF ERASMUS IMITATED.
TO DR. SHERLOCK.
CARMEN SECULARE, FOR THE YEAR MDOO.
AN ODE INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THE HONOURABLE COLONEL GEORGE VILLIERS.
PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT COURT BEFORE THE QUEEN, ON HER MAJESTY’S BIRTH-DAY, MDCCIV.
A LETTER TO MONSIEUR BOILEAU DESPREAUX, OCCASIONED BY THE VICTORY AT BLENHEIM, MDCCIV.
FOR THE PLAN OF A FOUNTAIN.
THE CHAMELEON
FROM THE GREEK,
EPIGRAM.
ANOTHER
ANOTHER.
ANOTHER.
TO A PERSON WHO WROTE ILL, AND SPOKE WORSE AGAINST ME.
ON THE SAME PERSON.
QUID SIT FUTURUM CRAS FUGE QUÆRERE.
A BALLAD OF THE NOTBROWNE MAYDE.
HENRY AND EMMA
AN ODE, HUMBLY INSCRIB’D TO THE QUEEN.
PREFACE.
AN ODE, HUMBLY INSCRIB’D TO THE QUEEN. ON THE LATE GLORIOUS SUCCESS OF HER MAJESTY’S ARMS. WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF SPENCER’S STILE.
CANTATA. SET BY MONS. GALLIARD
HER RIGHT NAME.
LINES WRITTEN IN AN OVID.
A TRUE MAID.
ANOTHER.
A REASONABLE AFFLICTION.
ANOTHER.
ANOTHER.
ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
PHILLIS’S AGE.
FORMA BONUM FRAGILE.
A CRITICAL MOMENT.
AN EPIGRAM.
EPILOGUE TO PHÆDRA AND HIPPOLITUS.
EPILOGUE TO LUCIUS.
THE THIEF AND CORDELIER.
AN EPITAPH
HORACE, LIB. I, EPIST. IX, IMITATED
TO MR. HARLEY, WOUNDED BY GUISCARD 1711
AN EXTEMPORE INVITATION
TWO BEGGARS
HUMAN LIFE.
PROLOGUE FOR DELIA’S PLAY.
AMARYLLIS. A PASTORAL.
DORINDA.
TO LEONORA.
TO LEONORA.
ON A PRETTY MADWOMAN.
ABSENCE.
THE NEW YEAR’S GIFT TO PHYLLIS.
A SONG. FOR GOD’S-SAKE — NAY, DEAR SIR.
ON SNUFF.
TO CELIA.
UPON A FRIEND, WHO HAD A PAIN IN HIS LEFT SIDE.
I. SET BY MR. ABEL.
II. SET BY MR. PURCELL.
III. SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
IV. SET BY MR. SMITH.
V. SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
VI. SET BY MR. SMITH.
VII. SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
VIII. SET BY MR. SMITH.
IX. SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
X. SET BY MR. SMITH.
XI. SET BY MR. SMITH.
XII. SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
XIII SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
XIV. SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
XV. SET BY MR. SMITH.
XVI. SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
XVII. SET BY MR. SMITH.
XVIII. SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
XIX. SET BY MR. SMITH.
XX. SET BY C. R.
XXI. HASTE MY NANNETTE, MY LOVELY MAID
XXII. SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
XXIII. SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
XXIV. BY MR. DE FESCH.
XXV. SET BY MR. C. R.
XXVI. MOGGY, I MUN BID ADIEU
XXVII. SOME KIND ANGEL, GENTLY FLYING
XXVIII. NELLY.
AD COMITEM DORCESTRIÆ,
AD DOM. GOWER, COLL. MAGISTRUM, EPISTOLA DEPRECATORIA.
CARMEN DEPRECATORIUM AD EUNDEM.
SISTE MERO BIBULAS EFFUSO TEMPORIS ALAS
REVERENDO IN CHRISTO PATRI THOMÆ SPRAT, EPISCOPO ROFFENSI, ETC.
EPISTOLA EODEM TEMPORE MISSA.
AD FRANC. EPISC. ELIENSEM.
DUM TINGIT SICULUS SOLIS CŒLIQUE MEATUS
IN COMITIS EXONIENSIS CRISTAM, TRITICI FASCEM LEONIBUS SUSTENTATUM.
MDCLXXXIX.
EPITAPHIUM.
ENGRAVEN ON THREE SIDES OF AN ANTIQUE LAMP.
EPITAPH.
INSCRIPTIO, &c.
EPITAPHIUM JOANNIS COMITIS EXONIÆ. H. S. E.
PROCEM. LITT. PATENT. LIONELLI DUCIS DORSETTIÆ, 1720.
ERLE ROBERT’S MICE.
IN THE SAME STYLE.
IN THE SAME STYLE.
A FLOWER PAINTED BY SIMON VARELST.
TO THE LADY ELIZABETH HARLEY, SINCE MARCHIONESS OF CARMARTHEN, ON A COLUMN OF HER DRAWING.
PROTOGENES AND APELLES.
DEMOCRITUS AND HERACLITUS.
FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE.
GUALTERUS DANISTONUS AD AMICOS.
IMITATED.
THE FIRST HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS.
THE SECOND HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS.
CHARITY.
ENGRAVEN ON A COLUMN IN THE CHURCH OF HALSTEAD IN ESSEX.
WRITTEN IN MONTAIGNE’S ESSAYS.
AN EPISTLE, DESIRING THE QUEEN’S PICTURE.
ALMA; OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND.
CANTO I.
CANTO II.
CANTO III.
SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD.
PREFACE.
KNOWLEDGE.
BOOK I.
BOOK II.
BOOK III.
CONSIDERATIONS ON PART OF THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH PSALM.
TO THE REV. DR. FRANCIS TURNER.
A PASTORAL. TO DR. TURNER, BISHOP OF ELY; ON HIS DEPARTURE FROM CAMBRIDGE.
AN EPISTLE TO FLEETWOOD SHEPHERD, ESQ.
AD VIRUM.
TRANSLATION.
ON THE TAKING OF NAMUR.
ODE IN IMITATION OF HORACE, III. OD. II.
PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY LORD BUCKHURST, IN WESTMINSTER SCHOOL.
THE SECRETARY.
THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE.
UPON THIS PASSAGE IN THE SCALIGERIANA.
TO A CHILD OF QUALITY, FIVE YEARS OLD, MDCCIV. THE AUTHOR THEN FORTY.
PARTIAL FAME.
TO CLOE.
TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF DEVONSHIRE.
A FABLE FROM PHÆDRUS.
ON MY BIRTHDAY, JULY 21.
EPITAPH. EXTEMPORE.
FOR MY OWN MONUMENT.
CUPID IN AMBUSH.
THE TURTLE AND SPARROW.
APPLICATION OF THE ABOVE; WRITTEN LONG AFTER THE TALE.
DOWN-HALL: A BALLAD, TO THE TUNE OF KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY, 1715.
VERSES SPOKEN TO LADY HENRIETTA CAVENDISH-HOLLES HARLEY.
PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN.
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD.
THE CONVERSATION.
THE FEMALE PHAETON.
THE JUDGMENT OF VENUS.
DAPHNE AND APOLLO.
THE MICE.
TWO RIDDLES.
EPIGRAM EXTEMPORE.
NELL AND JOHN.
BIBO AND CHARON.
GABRIEL AND HIS WIVES.
FATAL LOVE.
A SAILOR’S WIFE.
ON A FART, LET IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
THE MODERN SAINT
THE PARALLEL.
TO A YOUNG LADY WHO WAS FOND OF FORTUNE-TELLING.
A GREEK EPIGRAM IMITATED.
TO A FRIEND ON HIS NUPTIALS.
THE WANDERING PILGRIM.
VENUS’S ADVICE TO THE MUSES.
CUPID TURNED PLOUGHMAN.
PONTIUS AND PONTIA.
CUPID TURNED STROLLER.
TO A POET OF QUALITY.
THE PEDANT.
CAUTIOUS ALICE.
THE INCURABLE.
TO FORTUNE.
NONPAREIL.
CHASTE FLORIMEL.
DOCTORS DIFFER.
EPIGRAM ON BISHOP ATTERBURY.
ON BISHOP ATTERBURY’S BURYING THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, MDCCXX.
UPON HONOUR. A FRAGMENT.
ENIGMA.
ANOTHER.
THE OLD GENTRY.
THE INSATIABLE PRIEST.
A FRENCH SONG IMITATED.
A CASE STATED.
UPON PLAYING AT OMBRE WITH TWO LADIES.
CUPID’S PROMISE.
TO THE EARL OF OXFORD.
A LETTER TO THE HONOURABLE LADY MARGARET CAVENDISH HOLLES-HARLEY, WHEN A CHILD.
LINES WRITTEN UNDER THE PRINT OF TOM BRITTON.
TRUTH TOLD AT LAST.
WRITTEN IN LADY HOWE’S OVID’S EPISTLES.
AN EPISTLE. MDCCXVI.
ANOTHER EPISTLE.
TRUE’S EPITAPH.
EPIGRAM.
THE VICEROY. A BALLAD.
WHEN THE CAT IS AWAY, THE MICE MAY PLAY.
THE WIDOW AND HER CAT,
ON THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGE PRINCE OF DENMARK, AND THE LADY ANNE, 1683.
COLIN’S MISTAKES.
QUEEN MARY’S DEATH.
AD REGIOS FRATES.
COUPLET IN WIMPOLE LIBRARY.
TO DORSET.
A COMPLIMENT.
CONSCIENCE.
EPIGRAM ALLUDED TO IN POPE’S CORRESPONDENCE WITH LORD OXFORD.
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
A-D E-H I-L M-O P-S T-V W-Z
A BALLAD OF THE NOTBROWNE MAYDE.
A BETTER ANSWER.
A CASE STATED.
A COMPLIMENT.
A CRITICAL MOMENT.
A DUTCH PROVERB.
A FABLE FROM PHÆDRUS.
A FLOWER PAINTED BY SIMON VARELST.
A FRENCH SONG IMITATED.
A GREEK EPIGRAM IMITATED.
A LETTER TO MONSIEUR BOILEAU DESPREAUX, OCCASIONED BY THE VICTORY AT BLENHEIM, MDCCIV.
A LETTER TO THE HONOURABLE LADY MARGARET CAVENDISH HOLLES-HARLEY, WHEN A CHILD.
A LOVER’S ANGER.
A PASSAGE IN THE MORIÆ ENCOMIUM OF ERASMUS IMITATED.
A PASTORAL. TO DR. TURNER, BISHOP OF ELY; ON HIS DEPARTURE FROM CAMBRIDGE.
A REASONABLE AFFLICTION.
A SAILOR’S WIFE.
A SONG.
A SONG. FOR GOD’S-SAKE — NAY, DEAR SIR.
A SONG. IN VAIN YOU TELL YOUR PARTING LOVER
A TRUE MAID.
ABSENCE.
AD COMITEM DORCESTRIÆ,
AD DOM. GOWER, COLL. MAGISTRUM, EPISTOLA DEPRECATORIA.
AD FRANC. EPISC. ELIENSEM.
AD REGIOS FRATES.
AD VIRUM.
ADRIANI MORIENTIS AD ANIMAM SUAM.
ALMA; OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND.
AMARYLLIS. A PASTORAL.
AN ENGLISH BALLAD ON THE TAKING OF NAMUR BY THE KING OF
AN ENGLISH PADLOCK.
AN EPIGRAM.
AN EPISTLE TO FLEETWOOD SHEPHARD, ESQ.
AN EPISTLE TO FLEETWOOD SHEPHERD, ESQ.
AN EPISTLE, DESIRING THE QUEEN’S PICTURE.
AN EPISTLE. MDCCXVI.
AN EPITAPH
AN EXTEMPORE INVITATION
AN ODE INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THE HONOURABLE COLONEL GEORGE VILLIERS.
AN ODE. ON EXODUS III. 14
AN ODE PRESENTED TO THE KING, ON HIS MAJESTY’S ARRIVAL IN HOLLAND, AFTER THE
AN ODE, HUMBLY INSCRIB’D TO THE QUEEN.
AN ODE, HUMBLY INSCRIB’D TO THE QUEEN. ON THE LATE GLORIOUS SUCCESS OF HER MAJESTY’S ARMS. WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF SPENCER’S STILE.
AN ODE.
AN ODE: WHILE BLOOMING YOUTH AND GAY DELIGHT
AN ODE: WHILE FROM OUR LOOKS, FAIR NYMPH, YOU GUESS
ANOTHER
ANOTHER EPISTLE.
ANOTHER.
ANOTHER.
ANOTHER.
ANOTHER.
ANOTHER.
ANOTHER.
ANSWER TO CLOE JEALOUS.
APPLICATION OF THE ABOVE; WRITTEN LONG AFTER THE TALE.
BIBO AND CHARON.
BOOK I.
BOOK II.
BOOK III.
CANTATA. SET BY MONS. GALLIARD
CANTO I.
CANTO II.
CANTO III.
CARMEN DEPRECATORIUM AD EUNDEM.
CARMEN SECULARE, FOR THE YEAR MDOO.
CAUTIOUS ALICE.
CELIA TO DAMON.
CHARITY.
CHASTE FLORIMEL.
CLOE HUNTING.
CLOE JEALOUS.
COLIN’S MISTAKES.
CONSCIENCE.
CONSIDERATIONS ON PART OF THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH PSALM.
COUPLET IN WIMPOLE LIBRARY.
CUPID AND GANYMEDE.
CUPID IN AMBUSH.
CUPID MISTAKEN.
CUPID TURNED PLOUGHMAN.
CUPID TURNED STROLLER.
CUPID’S PROMISE.
DAPHNE AND APOLLO.
DEMOCRITUS AND HERACLITUS.
DOCTORS DIFFER.
DORINDA.
DOWN-HALL: A BALLAD, TO THE TUNE OF KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY, 1715.
DUM TINGIT SICULUS SOLIS CŒLIQUE MEATUS
ENGRAVEN ON A COLUMN IN THE CHURCH OF HALSTEAD IN ESSEX.
ENGRAVEN ON THREE SIDES OF AN ANTIQUE LAMP.
ENIGMA.
EPIGRAM ALLUDED TO IN POPE’S CORRESPONDENCE WITH LORD OXFORD.
EPIGRAM EXTEMPORE.
EPIGRAM ON BISHOP ATTERBURY.
EPIGRAM.
EPIGRAM.
EPILOGUE TO LUCIUS.
EPILOGUE TO PHÆDRA AND HIPPOLITUS.
EPISTOLA EODEM TEMPORE MISSA.
EPITAPH.
EPITAPH. EXTEMPORE.
EPITAPHIUM JOANNIS COMITIS EXONIÆ. H. S. E.
EPITAPHIUM.
ERLE ROBERT’S MICE.
FATAL LOVE.
FOR MY OWN MONUMENT.
FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE.
FOR THE PLAN OF A FOUNTAIN.
FORMA BONUM FRAGILE.
FROM THE GREEK,
GABRIEL AND HIS WIVES.
GREAT BRITAIN, MDCXCV.
GUALTERUS DANISTONUS AD AMICOS.
HANS CARVEL.
HENRY AND EMMA
HER RIGHT NAME.
HORACE, LIB. I, EPIST. IX, IMITATED
HUMAN LIFE.
HUSBAND AND WI
FE.
HYMN TO THE SUN
I. SET BY MR. ABEL.
II. SET BY MR. PURCELL.
III. SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
IMITATED.
IMITATED.
IN COMITIS EXONIENSIS CRISTAM, TRITICI FASCEM LEONIBUS SUSTENTATUM.
IN IMITATION OF ANACREON.
IN THE SAME STYLE.
IN THE SAME STYLE.
INSCRIPTIO, &c.
IV. SET BY MR. SMITH.
IX. SET BY MR. DE FESCH.
KNOWLEDGE.
LINES WRITTEN IN AN OVID.
LINES WRITTEN UNDER THE PRINT OF TOM BRITTON.
LISETTA’S REPLY.
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP:
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP: A PASTORAL
LOVE DISARMED.
MDCLXXXIX.
MERCURY AND CUPID.
NELL AND JOHN.
NONPAREIL.
ODE IN IMITATION OF HORACE, III. OD. II.
ODE SUR LA PRISR DE NAMUR, PAR LES ARMES DU ROY, L’ANNEE MDCXCII. PAR MONSIEUR BOILEAU DESPREAUX.
ON A FART, LET IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
ON A PICTURE OF SENECA DYING IN A BATH BY JORDAIN
ON A PRETTY MADWOMAN.
ON BEAUTY. A RIDDLE.
ON BISHOP ATTERBURY’S BURYING THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, MDCCXX.
ON MY BIRTHDAY, JULY 21.
ON SNUFF.
ON THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGE PRINCE OF DENMARK, AND THE LADY ANNE, 1683.
ON THE SAME PERSON.
ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
ON THE SAME SUBJECT.
ON THE TAKING OF NAMUR.
PALLAS AND VENUS.
PARTIAL FAME.
PAULO PURGANTI AND HIS WIFE.
PHILLIS’S AGE.
PONTIUS AND PONTIA.
PREFACE.
PREFACE.
PRESENTED TO THE KING, AT HIS ARRIVAL IN HOLLAND, AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF THE CONSPIRACY, MDCXCVI.
PROCEM. LITT. PATENT. LIONELLI DUCIS DORSETTIÆ, 1720.
PROLOGUE FOR DELIA’S PLAY.
PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT COURT BEFORE THE QUEEN, ON HER MAJESTY’S BIRTH-DAY, MDCCIV.
PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY LORD BUCKHURST, IN WESTMINSTER SCHOOL.
PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN.
PROTOGENES AND APELLES.
QUEEN MARY’S DEATH.
QUID SIT FUTURUM CRAS FUGE QUÆRERE.
REVERENDO IN CHRISTO PATRI THOMÆ SPRAT, EPISCOPO ROFFENSI, ETC.
SEEING THE DUKE OF ORMOND’S PICTURE AT SIR GODFREY KNELLER’S
SISTE MERO BIBULAS EFFUSO TEMPORIS ALAS
SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD.
THE CHAMELEON
THE CONVERSATION.
THE DESPAIRING SHEPHERD
THE DOVE.
THE FEMALE PHAETON.
THE FIRST HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS.
THE GARLAND.
THE INCURABLE.
THE INSATIABLE PRIEST.
THE JUDGMENT OF VENUS.
THE LADLE.
THE LADY WHO OFFERS HER LOOKING
THE LADY’S LOOKING-GLASS
THE MICE.
THE MODERN SAINT
THE NEW YEAR’S GIFT TO PHYLLIS.
THE OLD GENTRY.
THE PARALLEL.
THE PEDANT.
THE QUESTION, TO LISETTA.
THE REMEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE.
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