A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes

Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

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An ELEGY WRITTEN IN A Country Church Yard.

HYMN to ADVERSITY.

EDUCATION. A POEM: IN TWO CANTOS.

PENSHURST.

TO THE Hon. Wilmot Vaughan, Esq; in Wales.

AN EPISTLE ADDRESS'D TO Sir THOMAS HANMER, On his Edition of Shakespear's Works.

A SONG FROM SHAKESPEAR's CYMBELINE. Sung by Guiderus and Arviragus over Fidele, supposed to be dead.

ELEGY To Miss D--- W---D.

Answer to the foregoing Lines.

EPISTLES in the Manner of Ovid.

An Imitation of the Eleventh Ode of the First Book of Horace.

A LOVE LETTER.

VERSES to Dr. George Rogers, on his taking the Degree of Doctor in Physic at Padua, in the Year 1664.

VIRGIL's Tomb. Naples 1741.

The LINK. A Ballad.

THE SQUIRE of DAMES. A POEM. In SPENSER's Stile.

On the Death of a Lady's Owl.

The VANITY of Human Wishes.

The TEARS of OLD MAY-DAY.

SONG for RANELAGH.

The Benedicite Paraphrased.

An ODE to FANCY.

The MONKIES, a TALE.

An Epitaph. Thus Translated.

VERSES sent to Dean Swift on his Birth-day, with Pine's Horace finely bound.

VERSES written in a GARDEN.

AN ANSWER to a LOVE-LETTER.

In Answer to a LADY who advised RETIREMENT.

An Address of the Statues at Stowe, to Lord Cobham, on his Return to his Gardens.

An ODE ON THE DEATH of Mr. PELHAM.

VERSES Written at Mountauban in France, 1750.

The Revenge of AMERICA.

The Dying INDIAN.

ODE occasion'd by Reading Mr. West's Translation of Pindar.

THE PLEASURES of MELANCHOLY. Written in the Year 1745.

A SONNET; written at W---de in the Absence of ---.

On BATHING.

To Lady H---y.

On Sir Robert Walpole's Birth-day, August the 26th.

The Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse.

By Miss Cooper (now Mrs. Madan) in her Brother's Coke upon Littleton.

SOLITUDE.

An ODE To the Right Honourable Stephen Poyntz, Esq; &c. &c.

ODE on the Death of Matzel, a favourite Bull-finch, address'd to Mr. St---pe, to whom the Author had given the Reversion of it when he left Dresden.

MARTIALIS EPIGRAMMA. Lib. vi. Ep. 24. Imitated.

The Progress of DISCONTENT.

The FIRE-SIDE.

TO-MORROW.

On Lord Cobham's Gardens.

To a Child of Five Years old.

Father Francis's Prayer.

To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq

An ODE Performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge July 1, 1749, At the Installation of his Grace Thomas Holles Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University.

ODE to an ÆOLUS's Harp.

The GENIUS.

Translations from Horace.

To a LADY making a Pin-Basket.

Captain CUPID.

ODE on Ambition.

ODE to FANCY.

An Address to his Elbow-chair, new cloath'd.

SONG.

ODE to a Friend wounded in a Duel.

ODE to NIGHT.

Written upon leaving a Friend's House in Wales.

DENNIS to Mr. THOMSON,

SONG. 1753.

The BULFINCH in Town.

SONG.

Written to a near Neighbour in a tempestuous Night, 1748.

Written at a Ferme Ornee near Birmingham; August 7th, 1749.

The GOLDFINCHES. An Elegy.

The BLACKBIRDS. An Elegy.

The HEROINES, or Modern Memoirs,

The PARTING.

ODE to MEMORY. 1748.

The Princess ELIZABETH:

ODE to a Young Lady,

VERSES written towards the close of the Year 1748, to William Lyttelton, Esq;

SONGS.

RURAL INSCRIPTIONS.

A Pastoral BALLAD, in Four Parts.

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The GENIUS.

An ODE, written in 1717, on occasion of the Duke of Marlborough's Apoplexy.

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Aweful here, Marlb'rough, rise:
Sleepy charms I come to break:
Higher turn thy languid eyes:
Lo! thy Genius calls: awake!

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Well survey this faithful plan,
With records thy life's great story;
'Tis a short, but crowded span,
Full of triumphs, full of glory.

III

One by one thy deeds review,
Sieges, battles, thick appear;
Former wonders, lost in new,
Greatly fill each pompous year.

IV

This is Blenheim's crimson field,
Wet with gore, with slaughter stain'd!
Here retiring squadrons yield,
And a bloodless wreath is gain'd!

V

Ponder in thy godlike mind
All the wonders thou hast wrought;
Tyrants, from their pride declin'd,
Be the subject of thy thought!

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Rest thee here, while life may last:
Th'utmost bliss, to man allow'd,
Is to trace his actions past,
And to own them great and good.

VII

But 'tis gone—a mortal born!
Swift the fading scenes remove—
Let them pass with noble scorn,
Thine are worlds, which roll above.

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Poets, prophets, heroes, kings,
Pleas'd, thy ripe approach foresee;
Men, who acted wond'rous things,
Tho' they yield in fame to thee.

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Foremost, in the patriot-band,
Shining with distinguish'd day,
See thy friend, Godolphin stand!
See! he beckons thee away.

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Yonder seats and fields of light
Let thy ravish'd thought explore;
Wishing, panting for thy flight!
Half an angel; man no more.

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The GENIUS.

An ODE, written in 1717, on occasion of the Duke of Marlborough's Apoplexy.

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