A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes

Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

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ON A GROTTO near the Thames, at Twickenham, Composed of Marbles, Spars, and Minerals.

HYMN on SOLITUDE.

An ODE ON ÆOLUS's HARP.

On the Report of a Wooden Bridge to be built at Westminster.

The Choice of HERCULES.

An ODE. TO THE People of GREAT BRITAIN.

PSYCHE: or the GREAT METAMORPHOSIS.

JOVI ELEUTHERIO.

AN EPISTLE FROM A Swiss Officer to his Friend at Rome.

LIFE burthensome, because we know not how to use it.

The Duty of Employing one's Self.

On SCRIBLING against GENIUS.

The MIMICK.

An EPISTLE from FLORENCE.

The BEAUTIES.

EPILOGUE to Tamerlane. On the Suppression of the Rebellion.

The ENTHUSIAST:

ODE to FANCY.

Stanzas written on taking the Air after a long Illness.

The Two Beavers. A Fable.

CONTENTMENT.

The Education of ACHILLES.

An EPISTLE from S. J. Esq; in the Country, to the Right Hon. the Lord Lovelace in Town.

To a LADY in Town, soon after her leaving the Country.

To the Right Hon. the Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, presented with a Collection of Poems.

CHLOE to STREPHON.

To the Right Honourable the Earl of CHESTERFIELD, on his being installed Knight of the Garter.

To a LADY, sent with a Present of Shells and Stones design'd for a Grotto.

To a LADY, in answer to a Letter wrote in a very fine Hand.

The Art of DANCING. A Poem. Inscribed to the Rt. Hon. the Lady Fanny Fielding.

THE MODERN FINE GENTLEMAN.

THE MODERN FINE LADY.

AN ESSAY on VIRTUE. To the Honourable PHILIP YORKE, Esq;

The FEMALE DRUM: Or, The Origin of Cards. A Tale.

To Mr. FOX, written at Florence. In Imitation of Horace, Ode 4. Book 2.

To the Same. From Hampton-Court, 1731.

The POET's PRAYER.

An EPISTLE to a Lady.

GENIUS, VIRTUE, and REPUTATION.

THE ESTIMATE of LIFE, IN THREE PARTS.

The PLEASURE of POETRY.

The POWER of POETRY.

To a Young Lady with Fontenelle's Plurality of Worlds.

SONG.

To the Author of the Farmer's Letters, which were written in Ireland in the Year of the Rebellion, by Henry Brooke, Esq; 1745.

VERSES written in a Book called, Fables for the Female Sex.

VERSES written in Sylvia's PRIOR.

Upon a LADY's Embroidery.

DEATH and the DOCTOR.

INSCRIPTIONS on a Monument to the Memory of a Lady's favourite Bullfinch.

The Trial of SELIM the PERSIAN.

The TROPHY, BEING SIX CANTATAS To the Honour of his Royal Highness Willliam, Duke of CUMBERLAND;

The Marriage of the Myrtle and the Yew.

On a BAY-LEAF, pluck'd from Virgil's Tomb near Naples. 1736.

To CHLOE. Written on my Birth-Day, 1734.

To the Earl of CHESTERFIELD.

HONOUR. A Poem.

ODE to a Water Nymph. By Mr. Mason.

MUSÆUS:

AN ESSAY ON SATIRE,

A Character of Mr. POPE's Writings. BEING An Episode from the Poem call'd Sickness, Book II.

The Cave of Pope. A Prophecy.

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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.

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

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

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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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