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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.
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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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An ODE On the Death of a Friend.

I.

Apollo , God of Sounds and Verse,
Pathetick Airs and moving Thoughts inspire!
Whilst we thy Damon's Praise rehearse:
Damon himself cou'd animate the Lyre.
APOLLO, God of Sounds and Verse,
Pathetick Airs and moving Thoughts inspire!
Look down! and warm the Song with thy celestial Fire.

II.

Ah lovely Youth! when thou wert here,
Thyself a young Apollo did appear;
Young as that God, so sweet a Grace,
Such blooming Fragrance in thy Face;
So soft thy Air, thy Visage so serene,
That Harmony e'en in thy Look was seen.

III.

But when thou didst th'obedient Strings command,
And join in Consort thy melodious Hand,
E'en Fate it self, such wondrous Strains to hear,
Fate had been charm'd, had Fate an Ear.
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But what does Musick's Skill avail?
When Orpheus did his Loss deplore,
Trees bow'd attentive to his Tale;
Hush'd were the Winds, wild Beasts forgot to roar;
But dear Eurydice came back no more.

IV.

Then cease, ye Sons of Harmony, to mourn;
Since Damon never can return.
See, see! he mounts, and cleaves the liquid Way!
Bright Choirs of Angels, on the Wing,
For the New Guest's Arrival stay,
And Hymns of Triumph sing.
They bear him to the happy Seats above,
Seats of eternal Harmony and Love;
Where artful Purcel went before.
Cease then, ye Sons of Musick, cease to mourn;
Your Damon never will return,
No, never, never more!
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