A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes

Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

VOL. I.

II.

VOL. II.

III.

VOL. III.

IV.

VOL. IV.

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.

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.

II.

II. Daphne's Visit.

III.

III. The Rose-Bud.

IV.

IV. Written in a Collection of Bacchanalian Songs.

V. Imitated from the French.

RURAL INSCRIPTIONS.

A Pastoral BALLAD, in Four Parts.

VOL. V.

VI.

VOL. VI.

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IV. Written in a Collection of Bacchanalian Songs.

Adieu, ye jovial youths, who join
To plunge old Care in floods of wine;
And, as your dazled eye-balls roll,
Discern him struggling in the bowl.

Nor yet is hope so wholly flown,
Nor yet is thought so tedious grown,
But limpid stream and shady tree
Retain, as yet, some sweets for me.

And see, thro' yonder silent grove,
See yonder does my Daphne rove:
With pride her foot-steps I pursue,
And bid your frantick joys adieu.

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The sole confusion I admire,
Is that my Daphne's eyes inspire:
I scorn the madness you approve,
And value reason next to love.

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IV. Written in a Collection of Bacchanalian Songs.