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The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne

Lansdowne, George Granville (1667-1735)

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VOL. I.
  
TO THE Earl of Peterborough,
  
Spoken by the Author, being then not Twelve Years of Age, to her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, at Trinity-College in Cambridge.
  
To the KING. In the First Year of His Majesty's Reign.
  
To the KING.
  
To the KING.
  
To the Author, on his foregoing Verses to the KING. By Mr. Edmund Waller.
  
Answer. To Mr. Waller.
  
To the Immortal Memory of Mr. EDMUND WALLER,
  
To MYRA. Loving at first Sight.
  
To MYRA.
  
SONG. To MYRA.
  
An Imitation of the Second Chorus in the Second Act of Seneca's Thyestes.
  
A Loyal Exhortation. Written in the Year 1688.
  
Verses sent to the Author in his Retirement. Written by Mrs. Elizabeth Higgons.
  
Occasion'd by the foregoing Verses. Written in the Year 1690.
  
SONG.
  
Beauty and Law.
  
LADY HYDE.
  
Lady Hyde having the Small-Pox, soon after the Recovery of Mrs. Mohun
  
The Dutchess of ---, unseasonably surpriz'd in the Embraces of her Lord.
  
To FLAVIA.
  
To the same. Her Gardens having escap'd a Flood that had laid all the Country round under Water.
  
To my Friend Dr. Garth. In his Sickness.
  
To my dear Kinsman CHARLES Lord LANSDOWNE,
  
LADY HYDE
  
To Mrs. Granville of Wotton in Buckinghamshire; afterwards Lady Conway.
  
To Mrs. Afra Behn.
  
The Desertion.
  
SONG.
  
In PRAISE of MIRA.
  
SONG to MIRA.
  
Mira singing.
  
MIRA. At a Review of the Guards in Hyde-Park.
  
To MIRA.
  
THE PROGRESS of BEAUTY.
  
TO THE COUNTESS of NEWBOURG,
  
To MIRA.
  
To MIRA.
  
To MIRA.
  
SONG to MIRA.
  
To MIRA.
  
SONG to MIRA.
  
To MIRA.
  
Phyllis drinking.
  
To MIRA.
  
The ENCHANTMENT.
  
The VISION.
  
Adieu L'AMOUR.
  
LOVE.
  
MEDITATION on DEATH.
  
ESSAY.
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Epigrams and Characters, &c.
  
CLEORA.
  
CLOE.
  
Mrs. CLAVERING, singing.
  
SONG
  
The WILD BOAR's Defence.
  
For LIBERALITY.
  
CORINNA.
  
CLOE.
  
A RECEIPT for VAPOURS.
  
On an Ill-favour'd Lord.
  
CLOE.
  
On the same.
  
CORINNA.
  
CLOE perfuming herself.
  
BELINDA.
  
Im Promptu.
  
To my Friend. Mr. JOHN DRYDEN,
  
A Morning Hymn to the Dutchess of Hamilton.
  
DRINKING SONG to SLEEP.
  
Written under Mrs. Hare's Name, upon a Drinking Glass.
  
Under the Dutchess of Bolton's.
  
Under the Lady Harper's Name.
  
Under the Lady Mary Villiers' Name.
  
CUPID DISARM'D.
  
BACCHUS DISARM'D.
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THYRSIS and DELIA.
  
A Latin Inscription on a Medal for Lewis XIV. of France.
  
URGANDA's PROPHECY.
  
Prologue to the British Enchanters.
  
Another Epilogue designed for the same.
  
Prologue to Mr. Bevil Higgons' excellent Tragedy, call'd, The Generous Conqueror
  
EPILOGUE to the Jew of Venice.
  
PROLOGUE to the She-Gallants; Or, Once a Lover and always a Lover.
  
ODE On the present Corruption of Mankind.
  
FORTUNE.
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PELEUS and THETIS.

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SONG to MIRA.

[Why should a Heart so tender, break?]

Why should a Heart so tender, break?
O Mira! give its Anguish Ease;
The Use of Beauty you mistake,
Not meant to vex, but please.
Those Lips for Smiling were design'd;
That Bosom to be prest;
Your Eyes to languish, and look kind;
For amorous Arms, your Waist.
Each thing has its appointed Right,
Establish'd by the Pow'rs above,
The Sun to give us Warmth, and Light,
Mira to kindle Love.
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