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Poems on Several Occasions

With Imitations from Horace, Ovid, Martial, Theocritus, Bachylides, Anacreon, &c. To which is prefix'd A Discourse on Criticism, and the Liberty of Writing. In a letter to a Friend. By Samuel Cobb ... The Third Edition. To which is added, Poems on the Duke of Marlborough, Prince Eugene, the Electoral Prince of Hannover, with other Poems. Never before Printed

Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713)

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A Prefatory Discourse.

[For tho' retiring to the Western Isles]

[Born to surprize the World, and teach the Great]

[For to display our Candour and our Sence]

[Rules they can write, but, like the College Tribe]

THE Portugal-Expedition. February 1703–1704.

On the Birth of the Duke of Britany.

The Passion of Myrrha.

The Power of Beauty.

THE Desperate Lover.

THE FAIR INFIDEL.

To William Jordan of Gatwick, Esq. Horace's 9th Ode, B. 2d. imitated.

To Stephen Harvey, Esq;

An Epithalamium.

On a Lady, of a Voice incomparably sweet, who died Young.

Daphne's Denyal

A DITHYRAMBICK:

LOVE and MUSICK,

On a Gentleman drawing his Own Picture, Sept. 1703.

The REPEATER.

The ASS.

An Ode out of Anacreon.

The 103d Psalm Paraphras'd.

The 130th Psalm Paraphras'd.

The 148th Psalm Paraphras'd.

Descensio Sancti Spiritûs.

On the ceasing of the Oracles upon the Birth of our Blessed Saviour.

To his Friend on the Following Poem.

To his Friend on the following Poem

Of POETRY.

A POEM.

ON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.

EUGENIUS.

ON THE Electoral Prince OF HANOVER.

AMPHION.

Out of Horace. Ode 3. B. 13.

OF VAIN WISHES.

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Out of Horace. Ode 3. B. 13.

O Fons Blandusiæ, Splendidior vitro.

I.

Blandusia , gentle, Sabin Spring!
The Clearness of whose Brooks below,
Out-vies the Chrystal, as they flow;
Worthy the Sacrifice we bring.
An Offering of the noblest Wine,
With rosy Garlands crown'd, is Thine.
For Thee to Morrow shall be slain
A Kid, which wantons on the Plain.
While his first Horns begin to sprout,
Prepar'd to call his Rival out.
In vain he meditates the Fight,
In vain his Blood does Love excite;

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With which To-Morrow's Rising-Sun,
Shall see thy Rivers crimson run.

II.

The fiery Dog with raging Heat
On Thee, chast Nymph! does vainly beat:
For thy refreshing Streams below
And Shade above, defy the Blow.
To thee the straying Cattle run,
And Noon-tide Rays of Summer shun.
Thou dost their burning Thirst asswage;
The weary Ox, from Labour free,
And loose from Plough, repairs to Thee,
To save him from the Lyon's Rage.

III.

If I attempt to sing the Oak,
Which over-shades the hollow Rock,
From whence thy prattling Waters flow,
It will Eternity bestow;

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Thou in my Verse shalt ever live,
As much as Poets Verse can give
To Pharian Nilus, or the Starry Po.