The Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions of Paul Whitehead ::

The Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions of Paul Whitehead

With Explanatory Notes on his Writings, and His life written by Captain Edward Thompson. With a Head of the Author, From a Painting by Mr. Gainsborough

Whitehead, Paul (1710-1774)

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THE STATE DUNCES;

MANNERS;

THE GYMNASIAD, OR BOXING-MATCH;

HONOUR:

AN EPISTLE TO DOCTOR THOMPSON.

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

SONG, Addressed to the Ladies.

A NEW OCCASIONAL SONG

THE BUTTERFLY AND BEE.

VERSES,

CUPID BAFFLED.

VERSES

EXTEMPORE on hearing of Mr. Pope's Death.

DEATH AND THE DOCTOR.

AN OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE,

TO DR. SCHOMBERG, Of BATH.

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VERSES

Inscribed on a Monument called The Tomb of Care, in the Garden of the late John Rich, Esq. at Cowley, in Middlesex; whereon three beautiful Boys are covering a funeral Urn with a Veil of Flowers.

Why, busy Boys, why thus entwine
The flowery veil around this shrine?
As if, for halcyon days like these,
The sight too solemn were to please:
Mistaken Boys, what sight's so fair—
To mortals, as the Tomb of Care?
Here let the gloomy Tyrant lie;
His urn an altar shall supply,
Sacred to Ease, and social Mirth;
For Care's decease—is Pleasure's birth.

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VERSES

Inscribed on a Monument called The Tomb of Care, in the Garden of the late John Rich, Esq. at Cowley, in Middlesex; whereon three beautiful Boys are covering a funeral Urn with a Veil of Flowers.