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A collection of poems

Byles, Mather (1707-1788)

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To a Gentleman on the sight of some of his Poems.

An Elegy on the long expected Death of Old JANUS. [The New-England Weekly Courant.]

A poetical Lamentation, occasioned by the Death of His late Majesty King GEORGE the First.

Belinda. A Pastoral.

A full and true Account of how the lamentable wicked French and Indian Pirates were taken by the valient English Men.

Some excellent Verses on Admiral Vernon's taking the Forts and Castles of Carthagena, in the Month of March. 1742,3.

Carthagena's Downfall.

To ********* Desiring to borrow Pope's Homer. From a Lady.

The Answer.

Written in the blank Leaf of Mr. Addison's Cato: Given to a Lady.

Epigram on a Pedantic Composure.

To his most honoured Mother, On New-Year's Day, 1737. A piece for a Lad at writing School.

COMMENCEMENT.

An Account of the Procession of the General Court into Salisbury, in the Year 1737. when the Affair of the Boundary Line was debated between the two Provinces of the Massachusetts and New-Hampshire.

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Written in the blank Leaf of Mr. Addison's Cato: Given to a Lady.

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The attribution of this poem is uncertain.

Go, gentle volume, teach the fair to love,
With Marcia's elegance, and strictest virtue;
Soften'd by fonder Lucia's open temper:
Her heav'nly mind as faultless as her form.

Let ev'ry charm adorn the fav'rite youth,
Like Juba vig'rous, modest, beautiful,
Divinely flush'd with Marcus' glowing ardor,
Graceful as Portius, gen'rous and serene,
And all great Cato's soul dilate his breast.

O happy pair, 'tis you alone shall prove
The finish'd transports of immortal love.