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Poems on Several Occasions

Written by Charles Cotton

Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

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The Expostulation.

Taking leave of Chloris.

Resolution in four Sonnets, of a Poetical Question put to me by a Friend, concerning four Rural Sisters.

On my pretty Marten.

The Joys of Marriage.

Writ in Calista's Prayer-Book.

ODE. To Chloris.

To John Bradshaw, Esq

On Rutt: the Judge.

On Sim and Simon.

La Illustrissima.

Chanson a Boire.

The Angler's Ballad.

Epistle to John Bradshaw Esq;

Burlesque. Upon the Great Frost.

To my dear and most worthy Friend, Mr. Isaac Walton.

To the Countess of Chesterfield, on the Birth of her first Son.

Old Tityrus to Eugenia.

Epistle to John Bradshaw Esq;

Epistle to John Bradshaw, Esq;

The Retirement.

Stanzes de Monsieur Bertaud.

The eighth Psalm paraphrased.

Amoret in Masquerade.

Epigramme de Monsieur des-Portes.

Epigramme de Monsieur Cotin.

Epigramme de Monsieur Maynard.

A Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque.

Εις το δουιν πινειν

On Christmas-day.

The Morning Quatrains.

Noon Quatrains.

Ode de Monsieur Racan.

Stances de Monsieur de Scudery.

Epistle to the Earl of ---

Q. Cicero, De mulierum levitate.

On the Death of the Most Noble Thomas Earl of Ossory.

Epistle to Sir Clifford Clifton, then sitting in Parliament.

Stances de Monsieur Bertaud.

Forbidden Fruit.

On One, who said, He drank to clear his Eyes.

The Separation.

Another of the same.

On the great Eater of Grays-Inn.

An Epitaph on my Dear Aunt, Mrs. Ann Stanhope.

An Epitaph on M. H.

Song. Montross.

A Journey into the Peak.

Epitaph On Mr. Robert Port.

Sir William Davenant

To Sir William Davenant.

To my Friend Mr. John Anderson.

Les Amours.

Epitaph On Mrs. Mary Draper.

On the Lamented Death Of my Dear Uncle, Mr. Radcliff Stanhope.

On the Lord Derby.

To Cælia's Ague.

Love's Triumph.

To my friend Mr. Lely, on his Picture of the Excellently Virtuous Lady, the Lady Isabella Thynn.

Taking Leave of Chloris.

An Old Man's Gift to a Fair Lady.

In Amorem Medicum.

The Legend of the Famous, Furious, Expert, and Valiant Gittar-Masters, Caveliero Comer, and Don Hill.

On Annel-seed Robin, the Hermophrodite.

ODE. To Chloris from France.

An Invitation to Phillis.

The Entertainment to Phillis.

To some Great Ones.

To the Memory of my worthy Friend Colonel Richard Lovelace.

An Epitaph on Robert Port, Esq; design'd for a Monument:

To Cupid, a foolish Poet, occasion'd by as foolish a Poem of his to a bona Roba.

Philoxipes and Policrite.

To Mr. Alexander Brome.

Laura Sleeping.

To Sir Aston Cockayne, on Captain Hanniball.

In imitation of a Song in the Play of Rollo.

To Sir Aston Cockayne, on his Tragedy of Ovid.

De Die Martis, & Die Veneris.

TRANSLATIONS Out of several POETS.

An ELEGY upon the Lord Hastings.

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Les Amours.

I

She, that I pursue, still flies me;
Her, that follows me, I fly;
She, that I still court, denies me:
Her, that courts me, I deny.
Thus in one Web we're subt'ly wove,
And yet we mutiny in love.

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II

She, that can save me, must not do it,
She, that cannot, fain would do:
Her love is bound, yet I still woe it:
Hers by love is bound in woe.
Yet, how can I of Love complain,
Since I have love for love again.

III

This is thy work, imperious Child,
Thine's this Labyrinth of love,
That thus hast our desires beguil'd,
Nor see'st how thine arrows rove.
Then pre'thee, to compose this stir,
Make Her love me, or me love Her.

IV

But, if irrevocable are
Those keen shafts, that wound us so;
Let me prevail with thee thus far,
That thou once more take thy Bow;
Wound Her hard heart, and by my troth,
I'll be content to take them both.