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Poems on Several Occasions

With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures
Hughes, John (1677-1720)

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VOLUME the FIRST.
  
[dedication]
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POEMS ON Several Occasions.
  
AN ODE. In the PARK at ASTED.
  
TO Mr. CONSTANTINE, On his PAINTINGS.
  
TO URANIA, On her Arrival at Jamaica.
  
[There let Time's creeping Winter shed]
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VERSES To the Memory of Mr. HUGHES.
  
By a LADY.
  
[If for Our-selves the Tears profusely flow]
  
[From thy long Languishing, and painful Strife]
  
[Immortal Bard! tho' from the World retir'd]
  
PROLOGUE To the Memory of Mr. HUGHES.
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THE Court of Neptune.
  
THE House of Nassau.
  
An ODE On the Death of a Friend.
  
ANACREON, ODE THE THIRD.
  
The STORY of Pyramus and Thisbe
  
THE Triumph of Love.
  
THE PICTURE.
  
BARN-ELMS.
  
On the Friendship of Phoebe and Asteria; And the Sickness of the Former.
  
SONG.
  
To Octavia Indispos'd.
  
Beauty and Musick.
  
Cupid's Review.
  
To a Beautiful LADY playing on the ORGAN.
  
SONNET.
  
TO A PAINTER.
  
TO THE Author of Fatal Friendship, A Tragedy.
  
ON Divine Poetry.
  
SONG. Written for the Late Duke of Gloucester's BIRTH-DAY.
  
ON A PEACOCK
  
ON Lucinda's Tea-Table.
  
The MARCH.
  
Written in a Lady's Prayer-Book.
  
ODE on the SPRING.
  
HORACE, ODE III. Book III.
  
GREENWICH-PARK.
  
TO MOLINDA.
  
A Letter to a Friend in the Country.
  
HORACE, BOOK I. ODE XXII.
  
HORACE, BOOK II. ODE XVI. TO GROSPHUS.
  
THE Birth of the Rose.
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SIX CANTATA'S OR Poems for Musick.
  
THE PRAISES OF HEROICK VIRTUE.
  
Under the PRINT of TOM BRITON, the Musical Small-coal Man.
  
SONG. The Fair Traveller.
  
A CANTATA.
  
SONG.
  
Cupid and Scarlati.
  
A CANTATA.
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PASTORA,
  
A Pastoral Masque.
  
A CANTATA.
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
CLAUDIANUS: In Epithalamio Honorii & Mariæ
  
A CANTATA.
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THE Soldier in Love.
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AN ODE IN PRAISE OF MUSICK.
  
Apollo and Daphne.
  
A THOUGHT n a GARDEN.
  
A WISH TO THE New Year, 1705.
  
CANTATA.
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AN ODE FOR Vocal and Instrumental MUSICK.
  
EPILOGUE. Spoken by Mr. MILLS at the QUEEN's Theatre, on his Benefit-Night, February 16, 1709; a little before the DUKE of MARLBOROUGH's going for Holland.
  
THE TENTH BOOK OF Lucan's Pharsalia, TRANSLATED.
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To Mr. JOHN HUGHES, On his POEM, entitled, The Triumph of Peace .

Inspir'd by what melodious Hughes has sung,
I'll tune a Lyre, that long has lain unstrung:
Awak'd from drowsy Sloth, and soothing Rest,
Poetick Transports fire my ravish'd Breast!
What Pleasure must retiring Dryden find,
To see that Art his skilful Muse refin'd,
So much improv'd by those he leaves behind?
So when a Father sees a careful Son
Enlarge those Coffers, which were first his own,
With Joy to Heav'n he lifts his aged Eyes,
Blesses his prosp'rous Heir, and calmly dies.
May all your Fortune, like your Numbers, shine,
And smoothly flow, without one rugged Line!
'Till we confess the Genius is the same,
That guides your Fortune, and Poetick Flame.
So when of old some sportive Amorous God,
Vouchsaf'd awhile to leave his blest Abode,
In whatsoever Form the Guest appear'd,
His heav'nly Lustre shone, and was rever'd.
Catharine-Hall, Cambridge.
W. Worts. February, 1697.
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