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Poems on several occasions

By William Broome ... The second edition, With large Alterations and Additions

Broome, William (1689-1745)

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The Third Chapter of HABBAKKUK PARAPHRASED.

Part of the 38th and 39th Chapters of Job.

Daphnis and Lycidas. A PASTORAL.

THE FIRST ODE OF HORACE TRANSLATED.

An Epistle to my Friend Mr. ELIJAH FENTON,

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A Lady and her Looking-Glass, while she had the Green-Sickness.

A POEM On the Seat of War in FLANDERS,

To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Cornwallis,

BELINDA at the Bath.

To the Honourable Mrs. Elizabeth Townshend, Now Lady CORNWALLIS, On her Picture, at Rainham .

Part of the Tenth Book of the Iliads of Homer.

Poverty and Poetry.

To a LADY, Playing with a SNAKE.

TO A Lady of Thirty.

On the Birth-Day of a Gentleman when three Years old.

The Forty-third Chapter of Ecclesiasticus.

THE Conclusion of an Epilogue TO Mr. SOUTHERN's Last Play, Call'd, Money the Mistress.

THE PARTING, A SONG,

On a Flower which Belinda gave me from her Bosom.

THE STORY of Talus,

From the Eleventh Book of the Iliads of Homer.

To Mrs. Eliz. M---t,

PROLOGUE To Mr. Fenton's excellent Tragedy MARIAMNE.

To Mr. A. POPE, who corrected my Verses.

Monsieur Maynard Imitated.

ON A Mischievous Woman.

THE Widow and Virgin Sisters,

ON THE Death of my Dear Friend, Mr. ELIJAH FENTON .

A Poem on DEATH.

COURAGE in LOVE.

TRANSLATIONS From the Greek Poets

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BELINDA at the Bath.

While in these Fountains bright Belinda laves,
She adds new Virtues to the healing Waves;
Thus in Bethesda's Pool an Angel stood,
Bad the soft Waters heal, and blest the Flood;
But from her Eye such bright Destruction flies,
In vain they flow! for her, the Lover dies.

No more let Tagus boast, whose Beds unfold
A shining Treasure of all-conquering Gold!

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No more the Po! whose wandring Waters stray
In mazy Errours, thro' the starry Way;
Henceforth these Springs superiour Honours share,
There Venus laves, but my Belinda here.

------ Eridanum cernes in parte locatum Cœli.

Tull. in Arateis.

Gurgite sidereo subterluit Oriona.

Claud.