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Matthew Prior. Poems on Several Occasions

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Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

[dedication]

On Exodus iii. 14. I am that I am.

TO THE COUNTESS of EXETER, Playing on the Lute.

Picture of Seneca dying in a Bath.

An ODE.

AN EPISTLE TO FLEETWOOD SHEPHARD, Esq

TO THE COUNTESS of DORSET.

TO THE LADY DURSLEY

TO My LORD BUCKHURST, Very Young, Playing with a CAT.

An ODE.

A SONG.

THE DESPAIRING SHEPHERD.

To the Honorable CHARLES MONTAGUE, Esq

HYMN to the SUN.

THE LADY's LOOKING-GLASS.

LOVE and FRIENDSHIP: A PASTORAL.

TO THE AUTHOR OF THE Foregoing PASTORAL.

To a LADY:

SEEING THE DUKE of ORMOND's PICTURE, AT Sir GODFREY KNELLER's.

CELIA TO DAMON.

An ODE.

IN IMITATION OF ANACREON.

An ODE.

An English BALLAD, On the Taking of NAMUR By the King of Great Britain, 1695.

Presented to the KING, AT HIS ARRIVAL in HOLLAND, AFTER THE Discovery of the Conspiracy 1696.

The Question, to Lisetta.

Lisetta's Reply.

The Garland.

The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus.

CLOE JEALOUS.

Answer to CLOE Jealous, in the same Stile. The AUTHOR sick.

A Better Answer.

PALLAS and VENUS.

TO A Young Gentleman in Love.

AN ENGLISH PADLOCK.

HANS CARVEL.

A Dutch Proverb.

PAULO PURGANTI AND His WIFE:

THE LADLE.

Written at Paris, 1700. In the Beginning of ROBE's GEOGRAPHY.

Written in the Beginning of MEZERAY's History of FRANCE.

Written in the Nouveaux Interests des Princes de l'Europe.

A Passage in the MORIÆ ENCOMIUM of Erasmus Imitated.

TO Dr. SHERLOCK, ON HIS PRACTICAL DISCOURSE Concerning Death.

CARMEN SECULARE, For the Year 1700.

An ODE.

PROLOGUE, SPOKEN AT COURT before the QUEEN, On Her Majesty's Birth-Day, 1704.

A LETTER TO Monsieur Boileau Despreaux; Occasion'd by the VICTORY at BLENHEIM, 1704.

FOR The Plan of a Fountain,

To a Person who wrote Ill, and spake Worse against Me.

On the Same Person.

Quid sit futurum Cras fuge quærere.

HENRY and EMMA, A POEM, Upon the Model of The Nut-brown Maid.

AN ODE, Humbly Inscrib'd to the QUEEN. ON THE Glorious Success OF Her MAJESTY's Arms, 1706.

The THIEF AND THE CORDELIER,

An EPITAPH.

Horace Lib. I. Epist. IX. Septimius, Claudi, nimirum intelligit unus, Quanti me facias: &c.

To Mr. HARLEY.

An Extempore Invitation TO THE EARL of OXFORD, Lord High Treasurer. 1712.

Erle ROBERT's MICE.

In the same Style.

A FLOWER, Painted by SIMON VARELST.

TO THE Lady Elizabeth Harley, Since Marchioness of Carmarthen, On a Column of Her Drawing.

Protogenes and Apelles.

Democritus and Heraclitus.

For my own Tomb-stone.

GUALTERUS DANISTONUS. Ad Amicos.

THE FIRST HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS.

THE SECOND HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS.

CHARITY.

Engraven on a COLUMN In the Church of Halstead in Essex,

Written in Montaigne's Essays,

An EPISTLE, Desiring the Queen's Picture.

ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND.

THE FIRST CANTO.

THE SECOND CANTO.

THE THIRD CANTO.

SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD.

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An ODE.

[While from our Looks, fair Nymph, You guess]

I

While from our Looks, fair Nymph, You guess
The secret Passions of our Mind;
My heavy Eyes, You say, confess
A Heart to Love and Grief inclin'd.

II

There needs, alas! but little Art,
To have this fatal Secret found:
With the same Ease You threw the Dart,
'Tis certain, You may show the Wound.

III

How can I see You, and not love;
While You as op'ning East are fair?
While cold as Northern Blasts You prove;
How can I love, and not despair?

IV

The Wretch in double Fetters bound
Your Potent Mercy may release:
Soon, if my Love but once were crown'd,
Fair Prophetess, my Grief would cease.