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Poems on several occasions

By the late Edward Lovibond
Lovibond, Edward (1724-1775)

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ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD LOVIBOND, Esq;
 
THE TEARS OF OLD MAY-DAY.
 
DEDICATION TO THE Rev. Mr. WOODDESON, Of Kingston upon Thames, AND THE LADIES of his NEIGHBOURHOOD.
 
JULIA's PRINTED LETTER TO LORD ---.
 
ON REBUILDING COMBE-NEVILLE, NEAR KINGSTON, SURREY,
 
ON LADY POMFRET's PRESENTING THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD WITH HER COLLECTION OF STATUES.
 
ON RURAL SPORTS.
 
ODE TO CAPTIVITY.
 
IMITATION FROM OSSIAN's POEMS,
 
ODE TO YOUTH.
 
TO THE THAMES.
 
TO Miss K--- P---.
 
TO Miss K--- P---.
 
TO Miss K--- P---.
 
TO Miss K--- P---.
 
TO Miss K--- P---.
 
TO Miss K--- P---, WITH ANSON's VOYAGE.
 
THE COMPLAINT OF CAMBRIA
 
ON A PRESENT to the AUTHOR OF TWO IMPRESSIONS FROM A Fine Antique Seal of the Head of ALEXANDER;
 
ON THE SUBJECT OF THE MONUMENT IN ARCADIA.
 
ON THE SAME.
 
HITCHIN CONVENT.
 
TO A YOUNG LADY, A VERY GOOD ACTRESS.
 
TO AN ACCOMPLISHED LADY.
 
ADDRESS TO THE THAMES.
 
TO Mrs. B---, Reading Julia with tears, during a hard frost.
 
ON Mr. BROWN'S Alterations at Clermont,
 
TO LADY F---, On her Marriage.
 
SONG.
 
VERSES Written after passing through Findon, Sussex, 1768.
 
TO A LADY.
 
STANZAS.
 
TO A YOUNG LADY, Who objected to sup with a Party of both sexes, that met at a Coffee-House.
 
A DREAM.
 
THE MULBERRY-TREE.
 
TO A LADY.
 
ON A very Fine LADY.
 
ON An ASIATIC LADY.
 
TO THE SAME, ON HER DRESS.
 
TO THE SAME.
 
ON Reading the foregoing VERSES.
 
SONG.
 
LAURA's ANSWER.
 
REPLY TO Miss G---.
 
TO Miss G---.
 
TO LAURA, ON Her receiving a Mysterious LETTER from A METHODIST DIVINE.
 
TO THE SAME. ON POLITICS.
 
TO LAURA. FAREWELL TO THE ROSE.
 
SONG TO ****.
 
On Men being deprived, from Custom and Delicacy, of enjoying social Friendship with the Fair Sex.
 
TO A YOUNG LADY, Fainting at the News of her Friend's Misfortunes.
 
ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT.
 
TO Miss N---m,
 
TO THE Mrs.'s R---s,
 
VERSES WRITTEN AT BRIGHTHELMSTONE.
 
TO Miss G---,
 
ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING VERSES.
 
ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN.
 
INSCRIPTION FOR A FOUNTAIN.
 
On the converting the late Mr. WOODDESON's HOUSE, at Kingston, into a Poor-House, and cutting down the great Walk of high Trees before it.

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TO Mrs. B---, Reading Julia with tears, during a hard frost.

What, tho' descending as the dews of morn,
On Misery's sighs your tear of virtue waits;
Forget the fallen Julia! you were born
For heart-expanding joys and smiling fates.
To sooth with social pleasures human cares,
To call the Muse to Thame's frozen glades,
To wake the slumb'ring spring with vernal airs,
And plant an Eden in December's shades;
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To deck, like Eve, with soft officious haste,
Your banquet, worthiest of her angel guest;
Amid the flowers that crown the fair repast
A flower yourself, the fairest of the feast.
There the great Giver for his bounties given
Your grateful consort blessing, blesses too
The sweet dispenser of the gifts of Heaven,
In wonder's silent prayer he blesses you:
Your infants there reflecting round the board,
Maternal graces while his eye approves;
One tear to Rapture give!—then sit ador'd
The gentle mother of the Smiles and Loves.
 

See Milton's Paradise Lost, Book v. from line 303.

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