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Poems on several occasions

By Stephen Duck

Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

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Upon Her MAJESTY's Bounty to the Thresher.

To Stephen Duck: Occasion'd by his Poem on Friendship.

POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

To a Gentleman, who requested a Copy of Verses from the Author.

On POVERTY.

The THRESHER's Labour.

The SHUNAMMITE.

GRATITUDE.

A PASTORAL ELEGY.

On a Good Conscience.

On MUSIC.

On Richmond Park, and Royal Gardens.

AVARO and AMANDA.

To a Young Lady, who had a Cupid given Her.

On the Hon. Mrs. Horner's Travelling for the Recovery of her Health.

The Absent Lover.

On a Screen, work'd in Flowers by Her Royal Highness ANNE, Princess of ORANGE.

To His Royal Highness The Duke of CUMBERLAND, On His Birth-Day.

To DEATH.

On Mrs. L---s.

TRUTH and FALSHOOD.

Proper Ingredients to make a Sceptic.

On Two Young Ladies leaving the Country.

On MITES.

Chloe's CONQUEST.

Occasion'd by a Dispute with a Lady.

To Mr. Worsdale: Occasion'd by seeing Celia's Picture unfinish'd.

On the Queen's Grotto, in Richmond Gardens.

To the Author of a Poem on the Duke of Lorrain's Arrival at the British Court.

On Florella's Birth-Day.

To the Rev. Dr. Freind, on his quitting Westminster School.

On Celia's Picture, drawn by Sir Godfrey Kneller.

On the Marriage of his Serene Highness the Prince of Orange.

VERSES to the Author, In Imitation of HORACE's Ode on PINDAR.

The ANSWER.

On Delia singing, and playing on Music.

To the Right Honourable William Clayton, Esq; (now Lord Sundon) on his being Elected Representative in Parliament for Westminster without Opposition.

To Mr. Winder, (now Fellow) of Corpus-Christi, Oxford; in Answer to a Latin Epistle, which he sent me.

A Description of a Journey To Marlborough, Bath, Portsmouth, &c.

PENELOPE to ULYSSES.

An EPIGRAM.

A Poem on Her Majesty's Birth-Day.

FELIX and CONSTANCE.

Ad JOANNEM MILTONUM.

An Imitation of the Tenth Ode of the Second Book of Horace.

An IMITATION Of the Sixteenth Ode Of the Second Book of HORACE.

An Imitation of the Sixteenth Ode of the Third Book of Horace.

Imitated from Claudian.

Of FRIENDSHIP.

An Ode, presented to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, in Richmond Gardens, on Thursday, May 6. 1736.

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The ANSWER.

[When I, in feeble Verse, essay'd]

When I, in feeble Verse, essay'd
Nassau and Anna's Praise,
A Lyric Muse flew o'er my Head,
And dropp'd a Branch of Bays:

I would have fix'd it on my Brow;
But Phoebus said, Forbear;
'Tis Vanity to touch the Bough,
And Sacrilege, to wear.

Give it the Bard, who boldly dares
Attempt the Roman Lyre;
Who wisely checks, but not impairs
The tow'ring Pindar's Fire.

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Thus, Sir, to you, in Phoebus' Name,
The Laurel Wreath I send;
And, since the God denies me Fame,
Am glad it crowns my Friend.