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A Miscellany of Poems

consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary

Relph, Josiah (1712-1743)

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HARVEST; OR THE BASHFUL SHEPHERD.

THE WALK.

In Imitation of PSALM CXXXI.

HAY TIME; OR THE CONSTANT LOVERS.

In Imitation of Horace. B. 4. Ode 10.

A Burlesque Epistle to Mr.---

To D---n, S---t,

A Burlesque Epistle to Mr J---n C---r

Wrote with a Pebble on a rock at Corby-castle;

The BATTLE of the GIANTS.

An Epistle to Mr.---on his return from G---w C---e;

To the Reverend------on his visiting a sick Person, 1729.

To the Printer of the Kendal Courant.

THE DESPAIRING SHEPHERD.

DAMON and CHLOE.

From the GREEK.

To a Lady after losing at Whisk.

On a Wrangling Couple.

ADVICE to STREPHON.

EPISTLE to Mr. C---r at P---th.

To the LADIES. On the Recantation in the Kendal Courant.

Horace imitated. Ode 27. Book I.

The 19th Idyllium of Theocritus

From the Delec Epigram.

ARRIA and PÆTUS.

The 8th Ode of Book I. of Horace

Over a Glass of Birch-Wine.

To Captain C---y at Carlisle.

Horace, Ode ii Book I. imitated.

To--- D---n Esq;.

To Mr. Green, under a Decay, and debar'd by his Doctors from drinking.

A Brand New BALLAT.

On the fine Gardens at Corby.

The Favourite Fountain:

Occasion'd by a little Miss's bursting out into tears upon reading the Ballad of the Babes in the Wood.

The Story of PYRAMUS and THISBE

The POET's PETITION.

St. AGNES FAST; or the AMOROUS MAIDEN.

To a young Lady learning Arithmetick.

EPITAPH on PARIS.

De PAULO CANENTE Balthasaris Castilionis Mantuani POEMA.

On the Death of Amyntas.

Sir THOMAS MORE.

An EPISTLE to Mr.---at Oxford.

Another EPISTLE to the same.

Horace Book III. Ode 21. translated.

To the Rev.Mr.C---r, on his voyage to Dublin.

ELIZA at CHURCH.

To the Rev. Mr.---

Occasion'd by the Death of a young Girl.

HORACE Book II. Ode 7.

The Boy and the Birds.

The Sparrows and the Robin.

The Snails and the Fruit.

The Goose and the Hen.

The Sluggard and the Sun.

The Petted Nag.

The Boy and the Sparrows.

The Husbandman and the Horse.

Translated from Seneca.

The too free Nag.

Wrote after reading PAMELA,

The WORM-DOCTOR.

The HOUR-GLASS.

TRUE HAPPINESS.

From NICOLAUS FABER.

PYTHAGORAS'S GOLDEN VERSES.

On the Storms at Sea, and the KING's safe Arrival in Britain.

To Mr. C---r in Love.

SENECA, an Exile in Corsica.

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THE WALK.

I

As through the grove's delicious gloom
With Zephyrissa blessed I roam,
No more the pensive turtles pine;
The turtles lose their love in mine.

II

The warbler heedless of his lays
My Goddess eyes with ardent gaze;
To songs his bosom bids adieu;
His bosom heaves with raptures new.

III

Officiously the breezes wait
The fair one's fervors to abate:
But soon themselves the breezes glow,
And ask the cooling aid they owe.

8

IV

Why darts the fair-faced God of day
Amid the boughs so fierce a ray?
The God invidious wou'd impair,
The beauties of a face more fair.

V

In robes of richest rarest dye
The flowers enamoured court her eye;
Then sigh their souls in zephyrs sweet:
How proud to languish at her feet!

VI

The crowded boughs her bosom kiss,
All trembling with extatic bliss,
Then seize as oft her swain has done,
Her garment, grieved to part so soon.

VII

O still my charmer, stay and rove
Thus still a Goddess of the grove!

9

How tastless is thy tea, my dear!
And O how sweet our nectar here.

VIII

Nor dread the beauteous scenes decay;
If Zephyrissa deigns to stay,
Still beauteous shall the scene appear,
And spring smile joyous all the year.