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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.

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ON THE DEATH OF Mr. WILLIAM LEVINZ.

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.

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,

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THREE EPIGRAMS Translated from the Greek.

An Offering to PAN.

To DAPHNIS sleeping.

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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AN American LOVE-ODE.

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Taken from the Second Volume of Montagne's Essays.

I

Stay, stay, thou lovely, fearful Snake,
Nor hide thee in yon darksome Brake:
But let me oft thy Charms review,
Thy glittering Scales, and golden Hue;
From these a Chaplet shall be wove,
To grace the Youth I dearest love.

II

Then Ages hence, when thou no more,
Shalt creep along the sunny Shore,

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Thy copy'd Beauties shall be seen;
Thy Red and Azure mix'd with Green,
In mimic Folds thou shalt display:—
Stay, lovely, fearful Adder stay.