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Poems and Songs

by Thomas Flatman. The Fourth Edition with many Additions and Amendments

Flatman, Thomas (1637-1688)

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On the Excellent POEMS Of my most Worthy Friend, Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN.

To my Friend Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN Upon the Publication of his POEMS.

To my Friend Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN, On the Publishing of these his POEMS.

To his esteemed Friend Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN, Upon the Publishing of his POEMS.

To my Worthy Friend Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN, Upon the Publishing of his POEMS.

TO THE AUTHOR On his excellent POEMS.

To my dear Friend Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN, Upon the Publication of his POEMS.

On the Death of the RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS EARL of OSSORY.

To the Memory of the Incomparable ORINDA.

The Review.

To my Reverend Friend, Dr. SAM. WOODFORD, On his Excellent Version of the PSALMS.

On the Death of the truly valiant GEORGE Duke of ALBEMARLE.

The Retirement.

Translated out of a Part of Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon.

A Thought of DEATH.

Psalm xxxix. Vers. 4, 5.

Hymn for the Morning.

Anthem for the Evening.

DEATH.

The Happy Man.

ON Mr. JOHNSON'S

An Explanation of an EMBLEM

For THOUGHTS.

Against THOUGHTS.

A Dooms-Day Thought.

Virtus sola manet, cætera mortis erunt.

Psalm XV. Paraphrased.

II.

III.

IV.

AN ELEGY On the EARL of SANDWICH.

AN EPITAPH On the EARL of SANDWICH.

PASTORAL.

On the Death of Mr. Pelham Humfries.

The Resolve.

[The Batchelors Song.] The Second Part.

An Appeal to Cats in the business of Love.

Advice to an Old Man of sixty three, about to Marry a Girl of sixteen.

Celadon on Delia singing.

The Advice.

TO Mr. SAM. AUSTIN Of Wadham Coll. OXON,

TO MY Ingenious Friend Mr. WILLIAM FAITHORN

On the Commentaries of Messire Blaize de MONTLUC.

A Character of a BELLY-GOD

The Disappointed.

ON Mrs. E. MONTAGUE's Blushing in the Cross-Bath.

Il Infido.

Il Immaturo.

ON Mrs. Dove, Wife to the Reverend Dr. Henry Dove.

Lucretius.

On the Eminent Dr. EDWARD BROWN'S TRAVELS.

ON POVERTY.

Urania to her Friend Parthenissa.

On the Death of the Earl of ROCHESTER.

ON DR. WOODFORD'S PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES.

LAODAMIA to PROTESILAUS.

TO THE Excellent Master of MUSICK SEIGNIOR PIETRO REGGIO,

ON THE DEATH Of my Dear Brother Mr. RICHARD FLATMAN.

CORIDON On the death of his dear ALEXIS,

A SONG ON Newyears-day before the King, Car. 2.

ON The Kings Return to White-hall, after his Summers Progress, 1684.

TO Mr. ISAAC WALTON.

Pastoral Dialogue.

CASTABELLA Going to Sea.

On the Death of my worthy friend Mr. JOHN OLDHAM.

On the DEATH OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE RUPERT:

On the much lamented DEATH OF OUR LATE SOVEREIGN LORD King Charles II.

TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY King James II.

ODES OF HORACE PARAPHRASED BY THOMAS FLATMAN.

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The Resolve.

SONG.

I

Had Phyllis neither Charms, nor Graces
More than the rest of women wear,
Levell'd by Fate with common faces,
Yet Damon could esteem her fair.

II

Good natur'd Love can soon forgive
Those petty injuries of Time,
And all th' affronts of years impute
To her Misfortune, not her Crime.

108

III

Wedlock puts Love upon the Rack,
Makes it confess 'tis still the same
In Icy Age, as it appear'd,
At first when all was lively flame.

IV

If Hymen's slaves, whose ears are boar'd,
Thus constant by compulsion be,
Why should not Choice indear us more
Than them their hard Necessity?

V

Phyllis! 'tis true, thy Glass does run,
But since mine too keeps equal pace,
My silver hairs may trouble thee,
As much as me thy ruin'd Face.

109

VI

Then let us constant be as Heaven,
Whose Laws inviolable are,
Not like those rambling Meteors there
That foretel ills, and disappear.

VII

So shall a pleasing calm attend
Our long uneasie Destiny,
So shall our Loves, and Lives expire
From Storms and Tempests ever free.