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Philomela

Or, Poems By Mrs. Elizabeth Singer, [Now Rowe,] ... The Second Edition
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer (1674-1737)
  
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Verses to the Author, Known only by REPORT, and by Her POEMS.
  
ON REPRINTING Philomela's POEMS,
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POEMS ON Several Occasions.
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A PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES.
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CHAP. I.
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CHAP. II
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CHAP. III.
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CHAP. IV.
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CHAP. VI.
  
On CANTICLES. Ch. V. VI. &c.
  
From CANTICLES, Ch. VII, XI.
  
From Job Ch. XIX. V. 26.
  
Pindaric ODE on HABAKKUK.
  
TO THE Author of the foregoing ODE. By the ATHENIANS
  
From MICAH, Ch. VI. 5, 6, 7.
  
From MALACHI, Ch. III. V. 14.
  
PARAPHRASE From John, Ch. III. V. 16.
  
From JOHN, Ch. XXI. V. 17.
  
On the REVELATIONS, Chap. I. from v. 13. to v. 18.
  
Thoughts on DEATH.
  
The REFLECTION.
  
The Vanity of the World, ADDRESSED To the ATHENIANS.
  
ANSWER OF THE ATHENIANS.
  
The RAPTURE.
  
THE EXPOSTULATION.
  
THE WISH. TO THE ATHENIANS.
  
ANSWER OF THE ATHENIANS.
  
A PASTORAL ON THE NATIVITY OF OUR SAVIOUR.
  
THE Fall of PHAETON, Paraphrased.
  
A PASTORAL.
  
A PASTORAL ELEGY.
  
PARTHENIA. AN ELEGY.
  
THE REPLY.
  
PLATONIC LOVE.
  
HUMAN LOVE,
  
REPLY TO HUMAN LOVE.
  
TO A FRIEND WHO Persuades me to leave the Muses.
  
A PINDARIC ODE, TO THE Athenian Society.
  
TO CELINDA.
  
THE FEMALE PASSION.
  
TO STREPHON.
  
TO ORESTES.
  
ANSWER BY THE ATHENIANS.
  
TO A LADY at Court.
  
THE VISION, To Theron.
  
ANOTHER.
  
FLORINDA
  
ON DESPAIR.
  
TO MEMORY.
  
SONG.
  
A Farewel to LOVE.
  
LOVE for LOVE.
  
The WHIM.

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HUMAN LOVE,

IN Answer to the forgoing. By a Country GENTLEMAN.

So Angels Love! So let them love for Me;
As Mortal, I must like a Mortal be.
My Love's as pure as theirs, more unconfin'd;
I Love the Body, they but Love the Mind.

II

Without Enjoyment, Can Desire be ill,
For That which wou'd a Man with Pleasure fill?
This more intense and active, sure must be,
Since I, both Soul and Body give to Thee.
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III

This Flame as much of Heav'n as That contains,
And more, for unto That but Half pertains:
Friendship One Soul to th' Other doth unite,
But Love joins all, and therefore is more bright.

IV

Neither doth Human Love, Religion harm,
But rather Us against our Vices arm:
Shall I not for a charming Mistress die?
When Heav'n commands Increase and Multiply.
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