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Poems on Several Occasions

By the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton

Warton, Thomas (1688?-1745)

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An EPISTLE to Dr. Young,

An EPISTLE to Dr. Guibbons, a celebrated Physician.

OF THE Universal Love of Pleasure.

To a certain Voluminous Scribler.

AN INVOCATION TO A Water-Nymph.

AN ELEGY on an Infant.

Hereafter in English Metre ensueth A Paraphrase on the Holie Book entituled Leviticus Chap. XI. Vers. 13, &c. Fashioned after the Maniere of Maister Geoffery Chaucer in his Assemblie of Foules:

To Her MAJESTY Queen CAROLINE, ON HER Accession to the THRONE:

ODE ON THE PASSION.

The Eighth ODE of the Second Book of Horace.

ASTROPHIL to his SON, aged Seven Months.

TO BAPTISTA TURRIANO,

To the Right Honourable George Dodington, Esq

ON MAY MORNING.

On a Gentleman whose Mistress had an ill Breath.

THE SONG of JUDITH,

A PARAPHRASE On the 65th Psalm.

STANZAS,

Written in a Lady's Watch-Case.

ON A BEAUTY with ill Qualities.

AN American LOVE-ODE.

THE Second EPODE of HORACE imitated.

A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13th ODE of the 3d Book of HORACE:

A FRAGMENT of a Satire.

Another, on the same Subject.

TO Mr. ADDISON,

From the Thirteenth ODE of the Second Book of Horace.

STANZAS ON THE PSALMS.

CUPID acquitted,

THREE EPIGRAMS Translated from the Greek.

THE REGAL DREAM.

A FAREWELL to POETRY.

ODE ON THE DEATH of the Author.

ODE ON THE DEATH of the AUTHOR.

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STANZAS,

Imitated from Psalm CXIX.

I

Say, how shall thoughtless, easy-natur'd Youth,
Be pure from all the Stains their Follies give?
O let them learn the sober Law of Truth,
Know thy Rewards, and answerably live.

II

Full of this Hope I seek thee, dearest Lord,
And lest the Foe once more my Soul should win,
Deep in my Heart I treasure up thy Word,
A constant Guard against the Charms of Sin.

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III

How am I pleas'd when Joy, and Faith, and Awe,
Strive which shall most employ my various Tongue,
That loves to dwell on All thy wond'rous Law,
Guide of my Life, and Subject of my Song!

IV

Now Fame or Pleasure, or the wealthy East,
May tempt indeed—but never shall remove,
The lively Zeal that burns within my Breast,
Thy Name to honour, and thy Law to love.