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Poems on Several Occasions

By Thomas Gilbert

Gilbert, Thomas (1713-1766)

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VERSES PRESENTED TO CLORINDA,

Wandring Thoughts on the State of Man.

A Copy of Verses sent to Clorinda,

In Imitation of the Thirteenth Elegy of the IVth Book of Tibullus.

A Song to Clorinda.

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A View of the Town, a Satire.

An Epistle to a Gentleman at Oxford.

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The Campaign of Valencia.

The Campaign of Valencia.

On the Death of the Reverend Mr. John Bingham, Student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

On the Death of the Right Honourable Lord Castlecomer in 1736.

The third Ode of the Second Book of Horace,

The Eleventh Ode of the Second Book of Horace,

An Epistle to the Honourable Henry Bathurst, Esq;

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To the Author of some Latin Poems published a few Years ago.

To the same, on the Ladies Subscription for the English Poems.

The Nineteenth Ode of the Third Book of Horace,

Verses writ on a Glass,

The first Book of Martial, Epigram. 58.

On a Quack's Motto,

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The first Satire of Juvenal imitated.

On the Widow Scarf, Goddess of the Three-Tuns at Cambridge.

A Familiar Epistle to Doctor Reeve,in London.

The Second Epistle of the First Book of Horace imitated. First published in 1741–2.

Verses addressed to a Gentleman, who commended the Durham Ladies.

An Epistle to Lucinda.

An Answer to some bad Rhimes on Delia,

An Epistle to a young Lady.

The Author's Prayer.

On the Rebellion in the Year 1746.

A Familiar Epistle to my Friend Ben Loveling.

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The first Book of Martial, Epigram. 58.

Imitated in English.

You ask, dear Car, what mistress I would chuse?
Not one too strictly coy, nor yet too loose;
Whose unaffected character would prove
Like Delia modest, yet a friend to love;
No prudish air to damp the genial joy,
And charms enough to satisfy,—not cloy.