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Poems on Several Occasions

With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures
Hughes, John (1677-1720)

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VOLUME the FIRST.
  
[dedication]
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POEMS ON Several Occasions.
  
AN ODE. In the PARK at ASTED.
  
TO Mr. CONSTANTINE, On his PAINTINGS.
  
TO URANIA, On her Arrival at Jamaica.
  
[There let Time's creeping Winter shed]
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VERSES To the Memory of Mr. HUGHES.
  
By a LADY.
  
[If for Our-selves the Tears profusely flow]
  
[From thy long Languishing, and painful Strife]
  
[Immortal Bard! tho' from the World retir'd]
  
PROLOGUE To the Memory of Mr. HUGHES.
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THE Court of Neptune.
  
THE House of Nassau.
  
An ODE On the Death of a Friend.
  
ANACREON, ODE THE THIRD.
  
The STORY of Pyramus and Thisbe
  
THE Triumph of Love.
  
THE PICTURE.
  
BARN-ELMS.
  
On the Friendship of Phoebe and Asteria; And the Sickness of the Former.
  
SONG.
  
To Octavia Indispos'd.
  
Beauty and Musick.
  
Cupid's Review.
  
To a Beautiful LADY playing on the ORGAN.
  
SONNET.
  
TO A PAINTER.
  
TO THE Author of Fatal Friendship, A Tragedy.
  
ON Divine Poetry.
  
SONG. Written for the Late Duke of Gloucester's BIRTH-DAY.
  
ON A PEACOCK
  
ON Lucinda's Tea-Table.
  
The MARCH.
  
Written in a Lady's Prayer-Book.
  
ODE on the SPRING.
  
HORACE, ODE III. Book III.
  
GREENWICH-PARK.
  
TO MOLINDA.
  
A Letter to a Friend in the Country.
  
HORACE, BOOK I. ODE XXII.
  
HORACE, BOOK II. ODE XVI. TO GROSPHUS.
  
THE Birth of the Rose.
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SIX CANTATA'S OR Poems for Musick.
  
THE PRAISES OF HEROICK VIRTUE.
  
Under the PRINT of TOM BRITON, the Musical Small-coal Man.
  
SONG. The Fair Traveller.
  
A CANTATA.
  
SONG.
  
Cupid and Scarlati.
  
A CANTATA.
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PASTORA,
  
A Pastoral Masque.
  
A CANTATA.
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
CLAUDIANUS: In Epithalamio Honorii & Mariæ
  
A CANTATA.
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THE Soldier in Love.
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AN ODE IN PRAISE OF MUSICK.
  
Apollo and Daphne.
  
A THOUGHT n a GARDEN.
  
A WISH TO THE New Year, 1705.
  
CANTATA.
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AN ODE FOR Vocal and Instrumental MUSICK.
  
EPILOGUE. Spoken by Mr. MILLS at the QUEEN's Theatre, on his Benefit-Night, February 16, 1709; a little before the DUKE of MARLBOROUGH's going for Holland.
  
THE TENTH BOOK OF Lucan's Pharsalia, TRANSLATED.
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VOLUME the SECOND.

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VI.

Recitative.

The Prince, unable to conceal his Pain,
Gaz'd on the Fair,
Who caus'd his Care,
And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd,
Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again:
At length, with Love and Wine at once oppress'd,
The vanquish'd Victor sunk upon her Breast.
DUETTO.
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Phœbus, Patron of the Lyre,

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Cupid, God of soft Desire,

1.
Cupid, God of soft Desire,

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Phœbus, Patron of the Lyre,

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1 & 2.
How victorious are your Charms?

1.
Crown'd with Conquest,

2.
Full of Glory,

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See a Monarch fall'n before ye,
Chain'd in Beauty's clasping Arms!

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