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A collection of poems

Byles, Mather (1707-1788)

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To a Gentleman on the sight of some of his Poems.

An Elegy on the long expected Death of Old JANUS. [The New-England Weekly Courant.]

On the Foregoing.

A poetical Lamentation, occasioned by the Death of His late Majesty King GEORGE the First.

Belinda. A Pastoral.

A full and true Account of how the lamentable wicked French and Indian Pirates were taken by the valient English Men.

Some excellent Verses on Admiral Vernon's taking the Forts and Castles of Carthagena, in the Month of March. 1742,3.

Carthagena's Downfall.

To a little Master.

To ********* Desiring to borrow Pope's Homer. From a Lady.

Written in the blank Leaf of Mr. Addison's Cato: Given to a Lady.

Epigram on a Pedantic Composure.

To his most honoured Mother, On New-Year's Day, 1737. A piece for a Lad at writing School.

An Account of the Procession of the General Court into Salisbury, in the Year 1737. when the Affair of the Boundary Line was debated between the two Provinces of the Massachusetts and New-Hampshire.

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A collection of poems

Mather Byles

1707-1788

Printed and Sold by B. Green and Company, at their Printing-House [etc.]

Boston

1744