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The Third Volume of the Works of Mr. William Congreve

containing Poems upon Several Occasions
Congreve, William (1670-1729)

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EPISTLE TO THE Right Honourable CHARLES Lord HALIFAX, &c.
  
THE Mourning Muse OF ALEXIS.
  
TO THE KING, On the Taking of NAMURE.
  
THE Birth of the Muse.
  
ON Mrs. ARABELLA HUNT, SINGING.
  
Priam's Lamentation and Petition TO ACHILLES, For the Body of his Son HECTOR.
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THE LAMENTATIONS OF Hecuba, Adromache, and Helen, Over the dead Body of HECTOR.
  
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Andromache's Lamentation.
  
Hecuba's Lamentation.
  
Helen's Lamentation.
  
PARAPHRASE UPON HORACE. ODE XIX. LIB. I.
  
STANZA'S In Imitation of Horace, Lib. II. Ode XIV.
  
In Imitation of HORACE. Ode IX. Lib. I.
  
SONG.
  
THE RECONCILIATION.
  
ABSENCE.
  
SONG.
  
SONG in DIALOGUE, For TWO WOMEN.
  
SONG.
  
THE PETITION.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
Occasioned on a LADY's, HAVING Writ Verses in Commendation of a Poem which was written in Praise of another Lady.
  
EPIGRAM,
  
SONG.
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A HYMN TO HARMONY. In Honour of St. CECILIA's Day, MDCCI.
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VERSES To the Memory of Grace Lady Gethin,
  
EPITAPH
  
TO Mr. DRYDEN, ON HIS TRANSLATION OF PERSIUS.
  
The ELEVENTH Satire of Juvenal.
  
PROLOGUE TO QUEEN MARY,
  
EPILOGUE
  
PROLOGUE TO Pyrrhus King of Epirus.
  
EPILOGUE TO OROONOKO.
  
PROLOGUE to the Husband his own Cuckold.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE COURT; ON THE QUEEN's Birth-Day, 1704.
  
THE TEARS OF AMARYLLIS for AMYNTAS.
  
TO CYNTHIA, Weeping and not Speaking.
  
AMORET.
  
LESBIA.
  
DORIS.
  
TO SLEEP.
  
TO Sir Godfrey Kneller, Occasion'd By L---y ---s Picture.
  
To a CANDLE.
  
OVID's Third Book OF THE ART of LOVE.
  
OF PLEASING; AN EPISTLE TO Sir RICHARD TEMPLE.
  
A PINDARIQUE ODE, Humbly Offer'd to the QUEEN,
  
To the Right Honourable the Earl of GODOLPHIN, Lord High-Treasurer of GREAT BRITAIN. PINDARIQUE ODE.
  
HOMER's HYMN TO VENUS

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III.

Thou only, Goddess, first could'st tell
The mighty Charms in Numbers found;
And didst to Heav'nly Minds reveal
The secret force of tuneful Sound.
When first Cyllenius form'd the Lyre,
Thou didst the God inspire;
When first the vocal Shell he strung,
To which the Muses sung:
Then first the Muses sung; melodious Strains Apollo plaid,
And Musick first begun by thy auspicious Aid.
Hark, hark, again Urania sings!
Again Apollo strikes the trembling Strings!
And see, the list'ning Deities around
Attend insatiate, and devour the Sound.
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CHORUS.

Hark, hark, again Urania sings!
Again Apollo strikes the trembling Strings!
And see, the list'ning Deities around
Attend insatiate, and devour the Sound.
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