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The loves of hero and leander

translations from various Greek authors (1728)

Ogle, George (1704-1746)

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TRANSLATIONS From Various Greek Authors.

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I.

ODE I. Upon his Lyre.

II.

ODE II. Upon Woman.

III.

ODE III. Upon Cupid.

IV.

ODE IV. Upon Revel.

V.

ODE V. Upon the same Subject [Upon Revel].

VII.

ODE VII. Upon Cupid.

IX.

ODE IX. Upon the Carrier-Dove.

XIV.

ODE XIV. Upon Cupid.

XVI.

ODE XVI. Upon Himself.

XX.

ODE XX. To his Mistress.

XXII.

ODE XXII. To Bathyllus.

XXIII.

ODE XXIII. Upon Gold.

XXX.

ODE XXX. Upon Cupid.

XXXIII.

ODE XXXIII. To the Swallow.

XXXIV.

ODE XXXIV. To his Young Mistress.

XXXV.

ODE XXXV. Upon the Picture of Jupiter and Europa.

XXXVI.

ODE XXXVI. Upon Life.

XL.

ODE XL. Upon Cupid.

XLV.

ODE XLV. Upon Cupid's Arrows.

LXII.

ODE LXII. An Epithalamium, on the Marriage of Stratocles.

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Two Fragments from Sappho.

I.

I. Upon Two Favourite-Maids, of whom she was jealous.

II.

II. Upon the Rose.

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In Imitation of Anacreon.

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From Theocritus.

Upon the Death of Adonis.

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The SONG of Demodicus.

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ODE XXXIV. To his Young Mistress.

Wanton, in the bloom of years;
Poor Anacreon you despise;
Little grace his snow-white hairs
Gain him, fair-one, in your eyes.

Let not that affect your mind:
Half so well no mixture shews,
In the wreaths our temples bind,
As when the lilly joins the rose.