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Poems on Several Occasions

By Mr. George Woodward
Woodward, George
 
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On Lucan Lib. IX. Verse. Jupiter est, quodcunque vides.
 
TO A Young GENTLEMAN WITH Mr. Addison's Miscellaneous Works.
 
TO A PAINTER Upon seeing a Certain APOTHECARY's PICTURE.
 
AN Evening Slumber.
 
THE English PINDARICK.
 
TO A Young LADY Sitting at her GLASS.
 
THE English SLAVE.
 
A SIMILE.
 
AN English PROVERB.
 
THE RAPTURE.
 
SONG TO PHÆBE.
 
ON Seeing the P---R's PICTURE, IN A N---ry HOUSE.
 
THE CASE stated.
 
TO PHÆBE,
 
TO PHÆBE,
 
French Policy.
 
TO SACHARISSA.
 
A PASTORAL.
 
SOLILOQUY On Seeing PHÆBE a-sleep.
 
A LETTER From a LADY To Her HUSBAND IN SPAIN, In her last Sickness.
 
TO THE NIGHTINGALE
 
TO A LADY ON HER PARROT.
 
ON PHÆBE.
 
Upon seeing the OBELISK IN BLENHEIM Park.
 
Upon seeing a very Beautiful LADY MASK'D.
 
ON A Young LADY, Who accidentally fell into the RIVER.
 
SONG.
 
TWO or THREE
 
THE English BEAUTY.
 
THE Slighted SWAIN SONG.
 
LA PENSIF.
 
SONG.
 
ADVICE TO A FRIEND IN LOVE.
 
THE QUESTION TO PHÆBE.
 
A Hunting-SONG.
 
EPIGRAM ON MARRIAGE.
 
ANOTHER.
 
THE DECISION.
 
SONG.
 
EPIGRAM ON WOMAN.
 
TO THE GRASSHOPPER.
 
A FRAGMENT OF PETRONIUS ARBITER.
 
Hor. Ode 26. Book 3.
 
Hor. Ode 15. Book 3.
 
ON THE DEATH OF A MONKEY
 
On Seeing the PICTURE OF DUNS SCOTUS In the PRINTING-HOUSE at OXFORD, Very Fresh and Good.
 
THE Lover's WISH.
 
OCCASION'D By Hearing the NIGHTINGALE AT MIDNIGHT.
 
CONTENT
 
THE DREAM.
 
UPON AN Ugly FELLOW, Who thought Himself HANDSOME, Because the GIRLS gaz'd UPON HIM So much.
 
SONG. TO PHÆBE
 
A SERIOUS MEDITATION Upon a Pair of broken BELLOWS.
 
EPIGRAM ON A MISER.
 
EPIGRAM ON A POSITIVE DISPUTANT,
 
A TALE.
 
SONNET Imitated From SPENCER.
 
EPIGRAM ON A BLIND MAN In Love with a FINE LADY.
 
THE Simple MAID.
 
A WISH.
 
ODE TO THE SPRING.
 
TO PHÆBE When She was ANGRY.
 
DESCRIPTION Of an Old WOMAN.
 
LA Belle Romanesque.
 
LA Belle Coquet.
 
THE Faithless MAID.
 
ON THE DEATH of Mr. JOHN WHITESIDE
 
THE OXFORD BEAUTIES.
 
TO PHÆBE
 
PHÆBE TO FLORELIO
 
A SESSION OF THE OXFORD POETS.
 
THE POET.
 
THE FORCE OF BEAUTY.
 
SONG.
 
Hor. Ode 18.
 
A HYMN TO THE CREATOUR.
 
FAREWELL TO POETRY.

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EPIGRAM ON WOMAN.

Long have Philosophers strove all in vain,
Perpetual Motion by their Art t'obtain,
Why sure Philosophers have all been blind,
'Tis always to be found in Woman-kind.
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