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Original Poems and Translations

By Francis Fawkes
Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777)
  
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BRAMHAM-PARK.
  
A DESCRIPTION OF CALYPSO and her GROTTO.
  
AN EPITHALAMIC ODE.
  
THE DEATH of the LARK.
  
THE SPARROW.
  
ON THE DEATH of a Young Gentleman.
  
AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND IN YORKSHIRE.
  
On a Lady's singing, and playing upon the Harpsichord.
  
ON THE DEATH of the Right Honourable The EARL of UXBRIDGE.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE The COUNTESS of UXBRIDGE.
  
To LAURA.
  
SONG to LAURA Absent.
  
A NOSEGAY for LAURA.
  
To LAURA Absent.
  
TO HIS GRACE Dr. THOMAS HERRING, Lord Archbishop of CANTERBURY,
  
TO Mrs. HERRING.
  
A VERNAL ODE,
  
ODE TO SUMMER.
  
AN AUTUMNAL ODE.
  
ODE ON WINTER.
  
AN ODE.
  
AURELIUS:
  
ON THE DEATH Of his most Sacred Majesty KING GEORGE the SECOND.
  
TO His most SACRED MAJESTY,
  
A PARODY on a PASSAGE IN MILTON's PARADISE LOST. Book IV.
  
THE LORD's PRAYER.
  
DAVID's LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN.
  
The PICTURE of OLD-AGE:
  
A GOOD WIFE.
  
NATHAN's PARABLE.
  
THE SONG of DEBORAH.
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EPITAPHS.
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I. On a very good WOMAN.
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II. On a Young GENTLEMAN,
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III. ON A WORTHY FRIEND,
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IV. On the Rev. Mr. COOKSON,
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V. On Mrs. FOUNTAYNE,
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VI. On a young Gentleman, who died for Love.
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VII. On JAMES FOX, Esq
  
TO A YOUNG LADY,
  
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DOBBIN,
  
EPITHALAMIUM
  
THE SMOKING Doctor's SOLILOQUY over his Pipe.
  
BEAU DAPPER's SOLILOQUY IN PRAISE OF SNUFF.
  
WOMAN:
  
The BROWN JUG:
  
A Pair of SPECTACLES.
  
The STAGE-COACH.
  
ΔΩΡΟΝ ΑΔΩΡΟΝ. Thank you for Nothing.
  
AN ELOGY ON Sir ISAAC NEWTON,
  
CLAUDIAN's Old Man,
  
ARCHIMEDES's SPHERE.
  
ON MENANDER.
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FRAGMENTS OF MENANDER.
  
WILL with a WISP.
  
A VOYAGE to the PLANETS.
  
THE TEMPLE of DULNESS.
  
A MECHANICAL SOLUTION OF THE Propagation of Yawning.
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A DESCRIPTION OF MAY.
  
A DESCRIPTION OF WINTER.

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THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE.

Whoe'er approaches to the lord of all,
And with his offerings desolates the stall;
Who brings an hundred bulls with garlands drest,
The purple mantle, or the golden vest,
Or ivory figures richly wrought around,
Or curious images with emeralds crown'd;
And hopes with these God's favour to obtain,
His thoughts are foolish, and his hopes are vain.
He, only he may trust his pray'rs will rise,
And heav'n accept his grateful sacrifice,
Who leads beneficent a virtuous life,
Who wrongs no virgin, who corrupts no wife;
No robber he, no murderer of mankind,
No miser, servant to the sordid mind.
Dare to be just, my Pamphilus, disdain
The smallest trifle for the greatest gain:
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For God is nigh thee, and his purer sight
In acts of goodness only takes delight:
He feeds the labourer for his honest toil,
And heaps his substance as he turns the soil.
To him then humbly pay the rites divine,
And not in garments, but in goodness shine.
Guiltless of conscience thou may'st safely sleep,
Tho' thunder bellow thro' the boundless deep.

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