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The Poems of Ambrose Philips

Edited by M. G. Segar

Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)

PASTORALS, EPISTLES, ODES, AND OTHER ORIGINAL POEMS, With Translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho.

To the Memory of the late EARL of HALIFAX.

To the Honourable MISS CARTERET.

On the Death of the Right Honourable. William Earl Cowper.

To the Right Honourable William Pulteney, Esq

To Miss Margaret Pulteney, daughter of Daniel Pulteney Esq; in the Nursery.

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney, in her Mother's Arms.

To the Right Honourable ROBERT WALPOLE Esq

Supplication for Miss Carteret in the Small-Pox.

TO Miss Georgiana Youngest Daughter to Lord Carteret.

Occasion'd by the early SINGING of a LARK.

A MIDNIGHT THOUGHT.

SONG.

Reading Mr. WALLER.

LYING at her FEET.

[Promis'd Blessing of the Year]

EPIGRAMS AND SHORT POEMS

TRANSLATIONS.

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SONG.

[Then never let me see her more!]

Then never let me see her more!
In vain I sigh, in vain adore.
In some lonely Desart Place,
Far from Sight of Human Race;
In some unfrequented Cell,
Where neither Joy nor Sorrow dwell,
Oh! let me' endeavour to forget
At once my self, and Amoret.