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Poems on Several Occasions

With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures

Hughes, John (1677-1720)

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VOLUME the FIRST.

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POEMS ON Several Occasions.

AN ODE. In the PARK at ASTED.

TO Mr. CONSTANTINE, On his PAINTINGS.

TO URANIA, On her Arrival at Jamaica.

[There let Time's creeping Winter shed]

VERSES To the Memory of Mr. HUGHES.

THE Court of Neptune.

THE House of Nassau.

An ODE On the Death of a Friend.

ANACREON, ODE THE THIRD.

The STORY of Pyramus and Thisbe

THE Triumph of Love.

On the Friendship of Phoebe and Asteria; And the Sickness of the Former.

To Octavia Indispos'd.

Beauty and Musick.

Cupid's Review.

To a Beautiful LADY playing on the ORGAN.

TO THE Author of Fatal Friendship, A Tragedy.

ON Divine Poetry.

SONG. Written for the Late Duke of Gloucester's BIRTH-DAY.

ON Lucinda's Tea-Table.

Written in a Lady's Prayer-Book.

ODE on the SPRING.

HORACE, ODE III. Book III.

GREENWICH-PARK.

A Letter to a Friend in the Country.

HORACE, BOOK I. ODE XXII.

HORACE, BOOK II. ODE XVI. TO GROSPHUS.

THE Birth of the Rose.

SIX CANTATA'S OR Poems for Musick.

THE PRAISES OF HEROICK VIRTUE.

Under the PRINT of TOM BRITON, the Musical Small-coal Man.

SONG. The Fair Traveller.

Cupid and Scarlati.

A Pastoral Masque.

CLAUDIANUS: In Epithalamio Honorii & Mariæ

THE Soldier in Love.

AN ODE IN PRAISE OF MUSICK.

Apollo and Daphne.

A THOUGHT n a GARDEN.

A WISH TO THE New Year, 1705.

AN ODE FOR Vocal and Instrumental MUSICK.

EPILOGUE. Spoken by Mr. MILLS at the QUEEN's Theatre, on his Benefit-Night, February 16, 1709; a little before the DUKE of MARLBOROUGH's going for Holland.

THE TENTH BOOK OF Lucan's Pharsalia, TRANSLATED.

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VOLUME the SECOND.

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SONG. Written for the Late Duke of Gloucester's BIRTH-DAY.

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While Venus in her Snowy Arms
The God of Battles held,
And sooth'd him with her tender Charms,
Victorious from the Field;
By chance She cast a Lovely Smile,
Propitious, down to Earth,
And view'd in Britain's Happy Isle
Great Gloucester's Glorious Birth.

II

Look, Mars, She said; look down, and see
A Child of Royal Race!
Let's crown the Bright Nativity
With ev'ry Princely Grace:

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Thy Heav'nly Image let him bear,
And shine a Mars below;
Form You his Mind to warlike Care,
I'll softer Gifts bestow.

III

Thus at his Birth Two Deities
Their Blessings did impart;
And Love was breath'd into his Eyes,
And Glory form'd his Heart.
His Childhood makes of War a Game;
Betimes his Beauty charms
The Fair; who burn with equal Flame
For Him, as He for Arms.

1699.