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Poems, Songs and Love-Verses

upon several Subjects. By Matthew Coppinger

Coppinger, Matthew

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TO HER GRACE THE DUTCHESS OF Portsmouth.

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On Clelia's Garden.

To the King's Majesty.

Sent to Clelia.

Epig. 43. lib. 5. Martial.

Omnia mutantur.

An Epitaph on A. P.

Senex Tempus Mors & Chorus.

An Elegie on Mr. W. L.

To Clelia.

Scribe aliquid magnum.

De Pompeo & Filiis, e Martial.

De Sacerdote qui Caniculum in Cœmeterio Sepelivit.

Nobis placeant ante omnia Sylvæ.

A Pastoral Courtship.

The Syrens Song.

An Elegie on the Death of that Noble and Renowned Gentleman, Collonel Simon Lambert, of the Island of the Barbadoes.

To Madam Lambert.

The Epitaph. An Acrostick.

On my Ladies Lap-Dog.

De Leone & Lepore, e Martial.

To the Worshipful Jonathan Atkins, Knight, Governour of the Island of the Barbadoes.

The Lovers Greeting.

On Clelia's Sore Eyes.

An Elegie on the Death of his very good Friend Mr. Edward Lynch, Buried in Salisbury Cathedral.

Love Triumphant.

[As you are fair, can you be loving too]

On Clelia's Picture.

E Libro quarto Horatii Carmin. Ode 7.

A Deserted Lover.

To one that disswaded him from the Love of Clelia.

Epigr. 72. lib. 6. Martial.

Eurialus, Hersilia, Dares.

An Acrostick on Madam Ann Tirrell.

On Clelia's severe Command.

A Complaint against Cupid, for causing a distastful Love.

On his viewing a Fragment of the Old James.

An Anagram on His Highness Jame's Duke of York and Albany.

Susana Witherell. Anagram. U are all Whitness.

A Song to Lucifer.

To the King's most Excellent Majesty.

Dido's Expostulation.

Dido and Charon.

[An envious, angry, sluggish, drunken Lover]

The Confidence of a Just Man.

On the Death of Mr. William Goffe, late Gallant to the Lady Willoughby Yeomans, kill'd by Richard Love.

A Lovers Complaint.

Love in Ambiguity.

Eccho to the Painter, out of Ausonius.

A Dialogue between an Æthiopian, and a White Virgin.

The Lovers Jubile.

To the Honourable Jonathan Atkins, Governour of the Barbadoes.

On the Nine Muses, out of Ausonius.

On the undaunted Courage of a Shipwrackt Captain.

On Parson Andrew's, Parazitical Sermon to Mr. Evans, Mayor of Shaston.

Naides, Draides, Hymen, Orpheus, Euridice.

A Song by Orpheus.

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To Clelia.

Mirrour of Beauty, from whose conquering Eyes
All Power of Love and Glory does arise;
Resistless Charms does Crown your Heavenly Brow,
You Hellen-like no Second can allow.
Here Nature strove to shew her greatest Art,
Each part of you does captivate a Heart,
Your wounding Beauty spreads through every Part.
Pardon me then if that I soar above,
The Merits of undeserving Love.
I needs must love, for 'tis my cruel Fate,
Let not my kindness then deserve your hate;
Since to your Beauty I have Prisoner been,
Divinest Creature, think it not a Sin:
The Torrent of my Grief oreflow'd my Heart
And Love conceal'd still swell'd in every Part.
All my Ambition only is to gain
Your love, but (Cruelty) I strive in vain:
One Smile from you has power enough to save
A drooping Corps that's catching at a Grave.

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One Frown wou'd make a Miser, 'midst his store,
Forsake his Wealth, his Fate for to deplore:
The Gods bewail their Case, and mourn to see
Mortals so blest, more than Immortals be.
Juno till now from her Olympick Throne
Nere saw a Beauty greater then her own.
Since then all Beauty is in you alone,
You are that Goddess I'le adore, or none.