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Poems on Several Occasions

In Two Volumes. By Mr. Joseph Mitchell

(1684-1738)

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I.

THE Muse's Original:

AN ODE ON THE Power of Musick.

AN ODE, ON BUCHANAN.

THE Charms of Indolence.

THE JUDGMENT OF HERCULES.

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.

To OPHELIA, With the Power of Beauty.

THE POWER of BEAUTY.

To a young Lady,

To a Singing Bird.

A Memorial to Virtue, Unfinished.

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

TO Mr. Allan Ramsay.

A HYMN TO THE MUSES.

To His Grace JOHN, Duke of Argyle and Greenwich.

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,

VERSES To the Right Honourable the Lady Sommerville,

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

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

II.

[Judgment, and Virtue bear my soaring Wing]

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EPITAPH

For the Tomb of a MISER, who bilk'd his Relations for the Fame of building an Hospital.

Stop, Passenger—but shed no Tear—
A Miser's Corps is buried here,
Who bilk'd his Friends, and pinch'd himself,
To heap for Strangers Sums of Pelf.
He hop'd a Piety, so odd,
Wou'd recommend his Soul to God,
And make the Name, that stunk alive,
For ever savoury survive.
To say he's damn'd were not so fit:
But who thinks not the Biter bit?