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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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III. ON A WORTHY FRIEND,

Who was accomplished In the Sister Arts of Music and Painting.

Oh born in liberal studies to excel,
Thou friendly, candid, virtuous mind, farewel!
To speak thy praise all eloquence is faint,
Except the style's expressive as thy paint:
Unless th' enliven'd numbers sweetly flow,
As when thy music gave the soul to glow:
Unless the Muses polish every line,
And draw the good man with a warmth divine,
Serenely pious, with the gentlest mind,
Through life contented, and in death resign'd.
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