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Original Poems and Translations

By Francis Fawkes
Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777)
  
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BRAMHAM-PARK.
  
A DESCRIPTION OF CALYPSO and her GROTTO.
  
AN EPITHALAMIC ODE.
  
THE DEATH of the LARK.
  
THE SPARROW.
  
ON THE DEATH of a Young Gentleman.
  
AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND IN YORKSHIRE.
  
On a Lady's singing, and playing upon the Harpsichord.
  
ON THE DEATH of the Right Honourable The EARL of UXBRIDGE.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE The COUNTESS of UXBRIDGE.
  
To LAURA.
  
SONG to LAURA Absent.
  
A NOSEGAY for LAURA.
  
To LAURA Absent.
  
TO HIS GRACE Dr. THOMAS HERRING, Lord Archbishop of CANTERBURY,
  
TO Mrs. HERRING.
  
A VERNAL ODE,
  
ODE TO SUMMER.
  
AN AUTUMNAL ODE.
  
ODE ON WINTER.
  
AN ODE.
  
AURELIUS:
  
ON THE DEATH Of his most Sacred Majesty KING GEORGE the SECOND.
  
TO His most SACRED MAJESTY,
  
A PARODY on a PASSAGE IN MILTON's PARADISE LOST. Book IV.
  
THE LORD's PRAYER.
  
DAVID's LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN.
  
The PICTURE of OLD-AGE:
  
A GOOD WIFE.
  
NATHAN's PARABLE.
  
THE SONG of DEBORAH.
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EPITAPHS.
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I. On a very good WOMAN.
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II. On a Young GENTLEMAN,
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III. ON A WORTHY FRIEND,
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IV. On the Rev. Mr. COOKSON,
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V. On Mrs. FOUNTAYNE,
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VI. On a young Gentleman, who died for Love.
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VII. On JAMES FOX, Esq
  
TO A YOUNG LADY,
  
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DOBBIN,
  
EPITHALAMIUM
  
THE SMOKING Doctor's SOLILOQUY over his Pipe.
  
BEAU DAPPER's SOLILOQUY IN PRAISE OF SNUFF.
  
WOMAN:
  
The BROWN JUG:
  
A Pair of SPECTACLES.
  
The STAGE-COACH.
  
ΔΩΡΟΝ ΑΔΩΡΟΝ. Thank you for Nothing.
  
AN ELOGY ON Sir ISAAC NEWTON,
  
CLAUDIAN's Old Man,
  
ARCHIMEDES's SPHERE.
  
ON MENANDER.
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FRAGMENTS OF MENANDER.
  
WILL with a WISP.
  
A VOYAGE to the PLANETS.
  
THE TEMPLE of DULNESS.
  
A MECHANICAL SOLUTION OF THE Propagation of Yawning.
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A DESCRIPTION OF MAY.
  
A DESCRIPTION OF WINTER.

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II. On a Young GENTLEMAN,

Who died A. D. 1743, Ætat. 15. In a Church in CHESHIRE.

When age, all-patient, and without regret,
Lies down in peace, and pays the general debt,
'Tis weakness most unmanly to deplore
The death of those who relish life no more.
But when fair youth, that every promise gave,
Sheds his sweet blossom in the blasting grave,
All eyes o'erflow with many a streaming tear,
And each sad bosom heaves the sigh sincere.
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