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Poems on Several Occasions

In Two Volumes. By Mr. Joseph Mitchell

(1684-1738)

AN ODE ON THE Power of Musick.

AN ODE, ON BUCHANAN.

THE Charms of Indolence.

THE CUDGEL:

CANTO I.

THE JUDGMENT OF HERCULES.

JONAH,

Psalm the 139th.

Isaiah, Chapter 13.

A Familiar Epistle, TO Major Richardson Pack,

THE DOLEFUL SWAINS:

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE MUSE.

To the Right Honourable JAMES CRAGGS, Esq;

AN ODE On receiving a Wreath of Bays from OPHELIA.

On OPHELIA.

To OPHELIA, With the Power of Beauty.

A Memorial to Virtue, Unfinished.

An ODE,

To the Right Honourable CHARLES, Earl of Lauderdale, &c.

To His Grace JOHN, Duke of Argyle and Greenwich.

VERSES,

AN EPITAPH ON A GLUTTON.

To an Humourist, who married a most ugly super annuated Maid.

TO Aaron Hill, Esq

TO Sir Richard Steel.

A POETICAL DREAM,

To the Right Honourable John Earl of Stair,

MITCHELL, Solus,

To the Right Honourable John Earl of Stair.

THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,

To the Right Honourable John Earl of Stair,

An ANACREONTIQUE, To the Right Honourable John Earl of Stair:

TO Dr. Arbuthnot,

BOLD COUNSEL,

VERSES To the Right Honourable the Lady Sommerville,

VERSES Occasion'd by the Death of The Right Honourable the Countess of Grantham.

PETER:

CANTO I.

EPITAPH For the Tomb of an Infant, miscarried before it had received the Breath of Life.

II.

VOL. II.

[dedication]

Congratulatory Verses To His Excellency Joseph Mitchell, Esq;

THE SINE-CURE: A Poetical PETITION To the Right Honourable ROBERT WALPOLE, Esq;

AN ODE To the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT WALPOLE, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath;

THE SUBSCRIPTION:

TO THE Right Honourable The Lord Viscount KILLMOREY.

THE SHOE-HEEL:

EPILOGUE TO THE Spanish Fryar.

POLTIS, King of Thrace;

A Lilliputian ODE ON CLARA's Dog.

THE Vicar and Waggoner.

Miss Charlote at Church.

THE TOTNESS ADDRESS, VERSIFIED.

EPITAPH ON ROGER SIZER,

EPITAPH ON Madam MARIA JANE,

AN ODE

RATHO;

To their Most Excellent MAJESTIES,

An ANSWER.

AN ANACREONTIC TO THE Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield,

A Picture of HYMEN, OR Matrimony A-la-mode:

VERSES To the Memory of JOHN CLARK, Esq

OF Seigniora CUZZONI's VOICE and FACE.

TO Seigniora Cuzzoni.

[Ye Commons and Peers]

TO A LADY, playing with a Clouded Fan.

CORYDON's Complaint.

AN ODE ON Mr. W---r's Birth-Day, July 14.

TO Sir RICHARD STEELE;

VERSES ON THE DEATH of Mr. S---.

THE RECANTATION.

VERSES TO A Gentleman who was charm'd with OPHELIA's Person.

TO OPHELIA,

THE REVENGE, TO MARIANA.

Two Questions answer'd by Two Ladies at a Ball, Versified.

TO Mr. THOMSON, The Author of WINTER.

A Sunday EPISTLE TO CREW OFFLY, Esq;

TO Mr. A--- D---,

TO THE Right Honourable ---

VERSES ON A Friend's MARRIAGE.

TO A Right Honourable Grumbletonian.

EPITAPH

CATHOLICK BRASS; OR, THE Power of Impudence:

ET CÆTERA.

THE PATRIOT.

TO LUCINDA.

STANZA's (Publish'd in the Daily Journal.) On Reading the DUNCIAD.

To the Author of STANZA's, On Reading the DUNCIAD.

ON CLARISSA.

Political POETRY.

A PICTURE Of the RISE and FALL of a STATESMAN.

A DIALOGUE Between the Right Honourable A. and B.

A Monumental ODE, To the Virtuous Memory of Dr. Walsh of Worcestershire

A SONG.

To the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT WALPOLE,

THE Battle of Otterburn.

THE TINKER.

A SONG TO CELIA.

Poetick FAITH.

[Judgment, and Virtue bear my soaring Wing]

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CORYDON's Complaint.

I

As Love-Sick Corydon beside
A murmuring Riv'let lay,
Thus plain'd he his Cosmelia's Pride,
And, plaining, dy'd away.

II

“Fair Stream (he said) whene'er you pour
“Your Treasure, in the Sea,
“To Sea-Nymphs tell what I endure:
“Perhaps they'll pity me!

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II

“And, sitting on the cliffy Rocks,
“In melting Songs, express
“(While as they comb their golden Locks)
“To Trav'llers my Distress.

III

“Say, Corydon, an honest Swain!
“The fair Cosmelia lov'd,
“While she, with undeserv'd Disdain,
“His constant Torture prov'd.

IV

“Ne'er Shepherd lov'd a Shepherdess
“More faithfully than He:
“Ne'er Shepherd yet regarded less
“Of Shepherdess cou'd be.

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V

“How oft to Vallies, and to Hills,
“Did He, alas! complain!
“How oft re-echo'd they his Ills,
“And seem'd to share his Pain!

VI

“How oft, on Banks of stately Trees,
“And on the tufted Greens,
“Ingrav'd He Tales of his Disease,
“And what his Soul sustains!

VII

“Yet fruitless all his Sorrows prov'd,
“And fruitless all his Art!
“She scorn'd the more, the more he lov'd,
“And broke, at last, his Heart.