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Poems on Several Occasions

By C. Arnold

Arnold, Cornelius (1711-1757?)

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COMMERCE. A POEM.

THE MIRROR, For the Year M.dcc.lv.

The ROYAL CHACE.

Written in an Alcove near Orpington in Kent.

On the Tragedy of E---a.

The Force of Beauty.

On Miss Esther H---r---s.

An Acrostic on Sir Peter Warren, Admiral, on board the Invincible at Sea.

On the Adam and Eve, badly painted in the Headway of the Invincible.

On the Battle of Fontenoy.

An Answer to the Lines as under, on the Death of Mr. Pope.

On Mr. G---k's Petition in the World to Lord C---d, in a Letter to Lord R---r.

The Important Question.

Colin and Belinda; a Dialogue.

The Beau, in Answer to the Belle.

An ANTIGALLICAN SONG.

On the Freedom of the City of London being presented to the Right Hon. William Pitt, Esq; and the Right Hon. Henry Bilson Legge, Esq

The Fond Nymph, a Song.

The Invocation, a Song.

The Happy Maid, a Song.

On its being reported that Lord O---d repents.

On Water-Gruel, by Desire; occasioned by a singular Adventure.

The Butterfly and Ant, a Fable.

The Swan and Gander, a Fable.

Part of the Twelfth Chapter of the Second Book of Samuel render'd into Verse nearly verbatim.

The Forty-sixth Psalm.

The Third Chapter of Proverbs.

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On its being reported that Lord O---d repents.

O---d! afflicted with the Stone, repents,
And shews, they say, great Signs of Penitence:
Who in the least can doubt his Reformation;
See! he refunds the Plunder of the Nation:
Of all his Funds, Refund he ne'er could like;
How forcibly the racking Stone can strike!

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Why do ye wonder! Men of Parts so quick,
Repent much faster than the humdrum Sick;
One Hour with them more Sins doth wipe away,
Than Dull-Ones dreaming o'er their Beads a Day.

N. B.

It is desir'd this may be look'd on only as an Excursion of Fancy, no Sarcasm being intended on his Lordship, to whom the Author had the Honour of being personally known, and whom in private Life he greatly revered.