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Poems on Several Occasions

In Two Volumes. By Mr. Joseph Mitchell

(1684-1738)

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I.

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II.

Congratulatory Verses To His Excellency Joseph Mitchell, Esq;

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

THE EQUIVALENT:

THE ALTERNATIVE:

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.

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,

To their Most Excellent MAJESTIES,

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.

TO A Pyrating POET.

TO S---h F---k.

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.

CATHOLICK BRASS; OR, THE Power of Impudence:

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

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

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

To the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT WALPOLE,

THE Battle of Otterburn.

A SONG TO CELIA.

[Judgment, and Virtue bear my soaring Wing]

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TO OPHELIA,

In Tears for the Decay of her Beauties.

Life of Loveliness! forbear;
Sighs and Plaints I cannot hear.
Tell me not thou'rt past thy Prime—
Tax not Nature, Fate, and Time—
Beauties, that did first subdue,
Hold my Heart for ever true.
In Thee, still I find the Charms
That allur'd me to thy Arms.

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Raptur'd still I view thy Face,
Stock'd with ev'ry Virgin Grace.
Lively Sweetness! temper'd Fire!
Lasting Spring of chaste Desire!
In thine Eyes the very Flame!
Roses on thy Cheek the same?
On thy Chin th' unsullied Snow!
Gentle Majesty thy Brow!
Fresh the Teeth! and fine the Hair!
Lips, the lovely Twins they were!
Voice with heav'nly Musick fraught!
Shape and Air without a Fault!
Every Limb and every Feature
Perfect, as thy Sense and Nature!
Sprightly, generous, and free,
Just to All, and True to Me!

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Modest, innocent, and kind!
Charming Person! noble Mind!
All my Wealth, and Paradise!
Cheer thy Heart, and dry thy Eyes.