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The Works of Mr. Robert Gould

In Two Volumes. Consisting of those Poems [and] Satyrs Which were formerly Printed, and Corrected since by the Author; As also of the many more which He Design'd for the Press. Publish'd from his Own Original Copies [by Robert Gould]
Gould, Robert

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VOLUME the FIRST. [POEMS].
  
[dedication]
  
On the ensuing POEMS OF Mr. ROBERT GOULD,
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[Songs.]
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Love Verses.
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Miscellanies.
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Occasional Verses To several Ladies, &c.
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EPISTLES From the Country.
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HYMENEALS:
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LUCINIALS:
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Funeral Elegies.
  
To the Memory of Mr. John Oldham.
  
To the Memory of Edmund Waller, Esq.
  
On the Death of Mr. Dryden.
  
To Mr. Trowe, on the Death of Madam Goddard.
  
To Mr. Lawrence, on the Death of his Excellent Wife.
  
To the Memory of Mrs. Mary Peachley.
  
On the Death of Madam Pool's Son and Heir; Born Eight Months after his Fathers Decease.
  
To the Memory of that Worthy Gentleman Colonel Edward Cooke.
  
To the Honourable Colonel Henry Chiver, on the Death of Lionel Duckett, Esq
  
On the Death of the Famous Musick-Master Mr. Henry Purcell.
  
To my Lady Long, on the Death of Sir Giles Long Baronet, her Grandson.
  
To Sir James Long, Baronet.
  
To the Memory of Mr. James Margetts who died of the Small Pox in his Voyage to Pensilvania.
  
On the untimely Death of Mr. John Cary, Kill'd in a Duel.
  
On the Death of the much Honour'd Jame Hunte of Popham, Esq,
  
On the Death of that Worthy Gentleman Mr. John Cary, of Woodstock.
  
A Poem most humbly offer'd to the Memory of her late Sacred Majesty, Queen Mary.
  
An Historical Poem, most humbly offer'd to the Memory of his late Sacred Majesty, King William.
  
A Funeral Poem.
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Funeral Eclogues.
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Divine Poems AND PARAPHRASES.
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VOLUME the SECOND. [SATYRS].

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SONG VII. The Answer.

I

That charming Cælia I admire,
I must with Pleasure own it true;
But had I ten times more Desire,
How could my Passion injure You?

II

Love is the sacred Tree of Life,
And up to Heaven its Branches rears;
Yet Admiration's but the Leaf,
Enjoyment is the Fruit it bears.

III

Then while you raise this vain Dispute,
Your Fondness but it self deceives:
When you your self have all the Fruit,
What need you envy her the Leaves?
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