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Original Poems and Translations

By Francis Fawkes
Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777)
  
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BRAMHAM-PARK.
  
A DESCRIPTION OF CALYPSO and her GROTTO.
  
AN EPITHALAMIC ODE.
  
THE DEATH of the LARK.
  
THE SPARROW.
  
ON THE DEATH of a Young Gentleman.
  
AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND IN YORKSHIRE.
  
On a Lady's singing, and playing upon the Harpsichord.
  
ON THE DEATH of the Right Honourable The EARL of UXBRIDGE.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE The COUNTESS of UXBRIDGE.
  
To LAURA.
  
SONG to LAURA Absent.
  
A NOSEGAY for LAURA.
  
To LAURA Absent.
  
TO HIS GRACE Dr. THOMAS HERRING, Lord Archbishop of CANTERBURY,
  
TO Mrs. HERRING.
  
A VERNAL ODE,
  
ODE TO SUMMER.
  
AN AUTUMNAL ODE.
  
ODE ON WINTER.
  
AN ODE.
  
AURELIUS:
  
ON THE DEATH Of his most Sacred Majesty KING GEORGE the SECOND.
  
TO His most SACRED MAJESTY,
  
A PARODY on a PASSAGE IN MILTON's PARADISE LOST. Book IV.
  
THE LORD's PRAYER.
  
DAVID's LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN.
  
The PICTURE of OLD-AGE:
  
A GOOD WIFE.
  
NATHAN's PARABLE.
  
THE SONG of DEBORAH.
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EPITAPHS.
  
TO A YOUNG LADY,
  
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DOBBIN,
  
EPITHALAMIUM
  
THE SMOKING Doctor's SOLILOQUY over his Pipe.
  
BEAU DAPPER's SOLILOQUY IN PRAISE OF SNUFF.
  
WOMAN:
  
The BROWN JUG:
  
A Pair of SPECTACLES.
  
The STAGE-COACH.
  
ΔΩΡΟΝ ΑΔΩΡΟΝ. Thank you for Nothing.
  
AN ELOGY ON Sir ISAAC NEWTON,
  
CLAUDIAN's Old Man,
  
ARCHIMEDES's SPHERE.
  
ON MENANDER.
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FRAGMENTS OF MENANDER.
  
WILL with a WISP.
  
A VOYAGE to the PLANETS.
  
THE TEMPLE of DULNESS.
  
A MECHANICAL SOLUTION OF THE Propagation of Yawning.
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A DESCRIPTION OF MAY.
  
A DESCRIPTION OF WINTER.

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A NOSEGAY for LAURA.

July 1745.
Come, ye fair, ambrosial flowers,
Leave your beds, and leave your bowers,
Blooming, beautiful, and rare,
Form a posy for my fair;
Fair, and bright, and blooming be,
Meet for such a nymph as she.
Let the young vermilion rose
A becoming blush disclose;
Such as Laura's cheeks display,
When she steals my heart away.
Add carnation's varied hue,
Moisten'd with the morning dew:
To the woodbine's fragrance join
Sprigs of snow-white jessamine.
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Add no more; already I
Shall, alas! with envy die,
Thus to see my Rival blest,
Sweetly dying on her breast.
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