Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young

To Mr. Henry Bendish, The Indian Philosopher Against lying ...........
The Happy Man ..................................... ib. Against quarrelling and fighting
To David Polhill, Esq. An Answer to an in Love bctweeu 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

imitate ........

66' Against Pride in Clothes............

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

Casimire, Book iv. Ode xii. imitated ....... b. The Child's Co
To John Hartopp, Esq. (afterwards Sir John A Morning Song ...........

Hartopp, Bart.) The Disdain ............ 67 An Evening Sung ..............
To Mitio, my Friend. An Epistle............... ib. For the Lord's Day Morning .............

Page

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

A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF MORAL SONGS.

The Ten Commandments, out of the Old Tes The Sluggard

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

ib. Immocent Play .......................................

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

New Testament ..................................

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

POEMS OF A. PHILIPS.

109

...

....... 125

....... 116

The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ............ 99 To the right honourable William Pulteney,
Dedication ........................................ 105 | Esq. ................................................. 123
Preface to the Pastoral Poems .................. 107 | To Miss Margaret Pulteney, (Daughter of

Daniel Pulteney, Esq.) in the Nursery ......

PASTORAL POEMS.

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney, in her Mother's

The first Pastoral. Lobbin

Arms............................ ...........

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

To the right honourable Robert Walpole, Esq. 124

The third Pastoral. Albino ................. ... 111

Supplication for Miss Carteret, in the Small-

The fourth Pastoral. Myco, Argol ..........., 112

Pox .............

The fifth Pastoral. Cuddy.

114

To Miss Georgiana, youngest Daughter to Lord

The sixth Pastoral, Geron, Hobbino!, Lanquet 115

Carteret

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

EPIGRAMS AND SHORT POEMS.

The happy Swain ...... ...................... ib.

Upon the Toasts of the Hanover Club.

.........

EPISTLES.

On a Company of bad Dancers to good Music

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?

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

Year 1703 ....................................... 117 On Wit and Wisdom. A Fragment ............
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.................. ib.

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

To the honourable James Craggs, Esq. Seere-

TRANSLATIONS.

tary at War, at Hampton-Court ............ ib.

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 his Lute...... 13A
Song.-Why we love, and why we hate...... The second Ode. On Women
To Signora Cazzoni..

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....

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

POEMS OF WEST.

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

Dedication

139 The fifth Olympic Ode

Preface............................................. 141, 1

141 The seventh Olympic Ođe ...........

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 OP PINDAR,

The first Nemean Ode.....

The first Olympic Ode

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

The second Olympic Ode ......................... 151 The second Isthmian Ode .......

160

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 Manner 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 ..................... 187

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

........................ 188

the Greek of Lucian .........

170 An Inscription in the Cell .............. ......... ib.

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

POEMS OF COLLINS.

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

.......

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

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

ORIENTAL Eclogues.

Ross, in the Action at Fontenoy. Written

1. Selim; or, the Shepherd's Moral ...... 195 May, 1745

201

II. Hassan; or, the Camel Driver

196 FOde to Evening

202

II. Abra; or, the Georgian Sultana

ib. Ode to Peace

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

The Passions. An Ode for Music..
ODES, DESCRIITIVE AND ALLEGORICAL.

An Epistle addressed to Sir Thomas Hanmer,

Ode to Pity ............

on his Edition of Shakspeare's Works ......

Ode to Fear............

198 | Dirge in Cymbeline.

Ode to Simplicity ..........

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

Ode on

ical Character ......

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

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

beline............................

orical

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

POEMS OF DYER.

The Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson .........

Grongar Hill .....

The Ruins of Rome...

The Fleece. Book I. ....

II. ...

IV.

The Country Walk ......

221 | The Enquiry .........

223 | An Epistle to a famous Painter ...

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

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

234 Esq. .....

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

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

250 | To Mr. Dyer. By Clio ....... .........

.........

............. 253

POEMS OF SHENSTONE.

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

Friend ................................ 267

ELEGIES WRITTEN ON MANY DIFFERENT OCCASIONS.

III. On the untimely Death of a certain

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

..... 063

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

Elegy I. He arrives at his Retireinent 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 1

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

Birds ..............:

.............. 269 about her Manner of Expression ............ 285

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

quaintance ........... .... ib. | Ode to Indolence. 1750 ........................ 286

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 Upou a Visit to the same, in Winter, 1748 ... 287

to a Friend ........................... ib. An irregular Ode after Sickness, 1749 ......... ib.
X. To Fortune, suggesting his Motive | To a Lady, with some coloured Patterns of

for repining at her Dispensations. 2711 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. Anacreontic, 1738.--'Twas in a cool Aonian
XII. His Recantation........................ 272 glade .............

...........
XUI. To a friend, on some slight Occa Ode. Written 1739,-'Twas not by beauty's
sion estranged from him ......... ib.

aid alone ..........................

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

reign Countries, he takes Occasion

to intimate the Advantages of his

SONGS, WRITTEN CHIEPLY BETWEEN THE YEARS 1737

AND 1742.

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

XV. lo 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 apoņ thạt sole Foundation... 274 VI. The Attribute of Venus.

XVII. He indulges the Suggestions of

VII. 1941.-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 ...........
State of the woollen Manufactory. ib.

X, 1743.—The fatal hours are wondrous

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

near ......

XX. He compares his humble Fortune

XI. 1744.-Perhaps it is not love, said I..

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 ....

his 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 Ophelia treads the green. ¡b,

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 ..........

.................. 293

quently violated ...................... 278 The Halcyon .................
XXIII. Reflect:ons 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 .....................

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

the imperfect Pleasures of a soli 1 1748, to William Lyttleton, Esq. ............ 295

tary Life ............. ................. 280 Love and Music. Written at Oxford, when

XXV. To Delia, with some Flowers ; com-

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

plaining how much his Benevo Comparison .....

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

humble Fortune ..................... 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 ......

III. Solicitude .........

ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c.

999

IV. Disappointment...

Raral Elegance. An 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 the Memory of an agreeable lady,

a Ştory recorded of her, when she was Pri-

buried in Marriage to a Person undeserving

soner at Woodstock, 1554 ......................

her ..........

......... ib.

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Colemira. A culinary Eclogue ..... 300 VII. On a Seat .........

330
The Rape of the Trap. A Ballad. 1737 ... 301 VIII. On the Assignation Seat ...............

On certain Pastorals ..........

ib. IX. On an ornamented Urn ...............

On Mr. C- of Kidderminster's Poetry ... ..

X. On a Seat ...................

To the Virtuosos .............

XI. On a Seat at the Bottom of a large

The Extent of Cookery ............

Root, on the side of a Slope ..... ib.

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

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

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

Slender's Ghost .....................................

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

The Invidious ...

303

ticular Friends ........................ ib.

The Price of an Equipage ..................... ib. XVI. On a Statue of Venus de Medicis ... ib.

Hint from Voiture .

XVII. Intended to be written at the Begin-

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

ning of a Collection of Flowers,

To a Friend ......................................... 304

which Mr. Shenstone coloured for

The Poet and the Dun, 1741 ......

Mrs. Jago .............................. 331

Written at an Jon 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.

himself ..............

.......... ib.

Ode to be performed by Dr. Brettle, and a

Chorus of Hales-Owen Citizens ...............

VERSES TO SHENSTONE.

Cupid and Plutus .................................

307 | Written on a Ferme Ornée, near Birmingham.

By the late Lady Luxborough ...............

MORAL PIECES.

To William Shenstone, Esq. at the Leasowes.

The Judgment of Hercules

By Mr. Graves .........

Verses received by the Post, from a Lady un-

The Progress of Taste, or the Fate of Delicacy. 311

known ...

Economy. A Rhapsody, addressed to young

Poets

316 On the Discovery of an Echo at Edgbaston.

.......

By ...

......... 333

The Ruined Abbey; or, the Effects of Super-

stition

Verses by Mr. Dodsley, on his first Arrival at

.....

Love and Honour

324

the Leasowes, 1754.............

The School-Mistress. In Imitation of Spenser. 326

To Mr. R. D. on the Death of Mr. Sbenstone. ib.

Epitaph. On Miss Anne Powell

Verses written at the Gardens of William

Shenstone, Esq. near Birmingham, 1750 ... 354

To William Shenstone, Esq. in his Sickness.

INSCRIPTIONS.

By Mr. Woodhouse..............

I. On a Tablet against a Root-House ...... ib. / Verses left on a Seat, the Hand unkuown ...
II. On an Urn

...... ib. Corydon, a Pastoral. To the Memory of Wil-
III. To Mr. Dodsley.....

..... ib. liam Shepstone, Esq. By Cunningham ...
IV. On the Back of a Gothic Seat ............ ib. M. S. Gulielmi Shenstone ........................

V. On the Back of a Gothic Alcore ......... 329 Extract froin Mr. Mason's English Garden,
VI. On a Seat, under a spreading Beech..... 330 Book i...........

....