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A Collection Of Poems

By John Whaley

Whaley, John (1710-1745)

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AN ESSAY ON PAINTING.

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[Poems on Several Occasions]

Norwich Assembly,

The Two STATUES;

THE Rose and the Butterfly;

ON THE Statue of Laocoon,

To a Young Lady,

On the Statue of VENUS at Cnidus.

Imitation of HORACE.

To CÆLIA who gave me Her Picture.

On the Statue of Pythagoras.

An Epigram, To Mr. ---

To a Lady with Parnell's Poems.

BLEINHEIM, 1728.

An Epistle to Mr. POPE, FROM A Young Gentleman at ROME.

An Epistle, To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.

On seeing the Monument of the Right Honourable SIDNEY, Earl of Godolphin, in Westminster-Abbey.

Sulpicia to Cerinthus,

On a Young LADY's weeping at Oroonooko.

To a LADY in Years, who married a GENTLEMAN of a suitable Age to Her-self.

To a LADY,

A Reflection upon the shortness of Human Life:

VERSES, To an Unfortunate Young LADY of Quality.

To CÆLIA absent.

On the famous Contests between Signora Cuzzoni, and Signora Faustina.

Verses wrote in the Summer-House where Sir RICHARD STEEL wrote his Conscious Lovers.

Verses wrote in the same Summer-House, as belonging to Capt. NELLY.

To a LADY who Plays finely on the Harpsichord, lately recover'd from a Dangerous Fever.

To a GENTLEMAN lately Married.

On a Statue of VENUS Sleeping.

The Kiss repay'd;

The Linx and the Mole;

Minos and the Miser;

A Prologue to an English PLAY, Perform'd by the young Gentlemen, of Norwich School.

An EPISTLE To Mr. J. W. on his Illness.

An Answer To the foregoing Epistle.

To a Young LADY in the Country.

A Prologue to the Fair Penitent, Perform'd by the Young Gentlemen of Norwich School.

An Epilogue on the same Occasion,

Venus's Hue and Cry after Cupid.

On a Young LADY's weeping at the Fair Penitent.

An EPISTLE to --- Written by Moon-Light.

An EPISTLE To Mr. J. W. at Poplar.

An Epistile To Mr. --- at Cambridge.

An Answer To the foregoing Epistle.

Verses Wrote Extempore in the first Leaf of Euclid's Elements.

To CÆLIA at Her Toilet.

On a Couple lately Married.

To a Gentleman in Love with a Negro Woman.

Imitation of Horace, Lib. 2. Od. 8.

The Travels of a Shilling, Imitated from the Tatler.

Verses, Wrote on the 2d. of February.

The Song of Moses, Imitated from the 15th Chapter of Exodus.

Verses On the Twenty Ninth of May;

On CÆLIA's refusing to see ME.

The 6th Epistle in Horace,

The Same continued.

A Speech of HERCULES,

David's Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan,

ODE On the Fifth of November.

Verses On the Twenty Ninth of May.

On the Death of EDWARD late Lord Bishop of Chichester.

Job, Chap. 20, Verse 5, 6, 7, 8, Imitated.

The 4th Hymn of CALLIMACHUS.

EUROPA, From Moschus.

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To a LADY,

Who after accepting a Present of a Diamond Ring, and wearing it sometime, offer'd by way of Refusal to return it to the Donor, who was then about Sixty.

Permit, transporting Fair, a plaintive Muse
To breath her suff'rings at that word—Refuse.
What tho' Idalian sweets compose that Face,
Nor can all India's Mines improve one Grace;
Yet, yet accept this emblem of my Love,
Which, lasting as the Diamond's Self shall prove.

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Accept, and dissipate my sick'ning Fears;
Shun roving Youth, and Try the worth of Years:
Years,—which gave me to make my Passion known,
And form'd the trembling Lustre of this Stone.