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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes
Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
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VOL. I.
II.
VOL. II.
III.
VOL. III.
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VOL. IV.
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VOL. V.
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VOL. VI.
HYMN TO THE NAIADS.
ODE To the Right Honourable Francis Earl of HUNTINGDON. MDCCXLVII.
ODE To the Right Reverend BENJAMIN Lord Bishop of WINCHESTER.
INSCRIPTIONS.
ODE.
ODE TO THE TIBER.
ELEGIES.
On the Immortality of the Soul.
The Arbour: An Ode to Contentment.
The GROTTO: An Ode to Silence.
The Picture of HUMAN LIFE.
The DROPSICAL MAN.
PARADISE Regain'd. By H. T.
To the Right Hon. Sir Robert Walpole.
To a Lady on a Landscape of her Drawing.
ODE to Cupid on Valentine's Day.
To the Honourable and Reverend F. C.
To the Reverend T--- T---, D. D.
VACATION.
To a LADY very handsome, but too fond of Dress.
ANACREON. Ode III.
An Imitation of Horace, Ode II. Book III.
A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of Ode II. Book III. of Horace.
Inscription on a Grotto of Shells at Crux-Easton, the Work of Nine young Ladies.
VERSES occasioned by seeing a Grotto built by Nine Sisters.
An Excuse for Inconstancy, 1737.
To VENUS. A Rant, 1732.
The Power of MUSIC. A SONG.
LETTER from Smyrna to his Sisters at Crux-Easton, 1733.
Part of a Letter to my Sisters at Crux-Easton, wrote from Cairo in Egypt, August 1734.
LETTER from Marseilles to my Sisters at Crux-Easton, May 1735.
The History of Porsenna, King of Russia,
I.
BOOK I.
II.
BOOK II.
The EVER-GREEN.
CANDOUR.
LYSANDER to CLOE.
CLOE to LYSANDER.
To the Memory of an agreeable Lady bury'd in Marriage to a Person undeserving her.
An Elegy, written on Valentine Morning.
The DOWAGER.
ODE to the Honourable ---
To Miss ---. By Miss Elisa Carter.
Lady Mary W---, to Sir W--- Y---
Sir W--- Y---'s Answer.
Miss Soper's Answer to a Lady, who invited her to retire into a monastic Life at St. Cross, near Winchester.
REPENTANCE. By the Same.
A SONG.
CYNTHIA, an Elegiac Poem.
DIALOGUE to CHLORINDA.
To CHLORINDA.
The Fable of Ixion. To CHLORINDA.
A TALE. To CHLORINDA.
Ode on Lyric Poetry.
ARION, an Ode.
HORACE, Book II. Ode II.
A PANEGYRIC on ALE.
ODE to the Genius of Italy, occasioned by the Earl of Corke's going Abroad.
To C--- P---, Esq;
Epistle from the late Lord Viscount B---gb---ke to Miss Lucy A---k---ns.
The CHEAT's Apology.
SONG.
Another. By the Same.
To Mr. Grenville on his intended Resignation.
To Mr. Garrick, on his erecting a Temple and Statue to Shakespear.
On the Birth-Day of Shakespear. A Cento. Taken from his Works.
An Ode to SCULPTURE.
True RESIGNATION.
An Epistle from the King of PRUSSIA, to Monsieur Voltaire. 1757.
At seeing Archbishop William's Monument in Carnarvonshire.
Extempore Verses upon a Trial of Skill between the two great Masters of Defence, Messieurs Figg and Sutton.
A Letter from Cambridge to a young Gentleman at Eton School.
The INDOLENT.
The Song of Simeon paraphrased.
On the Invention of Letters.
On WIT.
On a SPIDER.
The Play-Thing chang'd.
The Fable of JOTHAM: To the Borough-Hunters.
An Elegy written in an empty Assembly-Room.
The FAKEER: A Tale.
To Mr. WHITEHEAD, On his being made Poet Laureat.
Verses on the Prospect of planting Arts and Learning in America.
To Mr. MASON.
ODE. To INDEPENDENCY.
ODE. On MELANCHOLY.
ODE.
ODE.
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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes
Book
I. Ep. 14.
When Arria from her wounded side
To Pætus gave the reeking steel,
I feel not what I've done, she cried;
What Pætus is to do—I feel.
A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes