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A Collection Of Poems

By John Whaley
Whaley, John (1710-1745)

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AN ESSAY ON PAINTING.
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[Poems on Several Occasions]
 
Norwich Assembly,
 
The Two STATUES;
 
THE Rose and the Butterfly;
 
ON THE Statue of Laocoon,
 
To a Young Lady,
 
To the Same.
 
On the Statue of VENUS at Cnidus.
 
On the Same.
 
Imitation of HORACE.
 
To CÆLIA who gave me Her Picture.
 
On the Statue of Pythagoras.
 
On ROME.
 
An Epigram, To Mr. ---
 
To a Friend;
 
To a Lady with Parnell's Poems.
 
BLEINHEIM, 1728.
 
An Epistle to Mr. POPE, FROM A Young Gentleman at ROME.
 
An Epistle, To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.
 
On seeing the Monument of the Right Honourable SIDNEY, Earl of Godolphin, in Westminster-Abbey.
 
To a Friend;
 
Sulpicia to Cerinthus,
 
On a Young LADY's weeping at Oroonooko.
 
To a LADY in Years, who married a GENTLEMAN of a suitable Age to Her-self.
 
To a LADY,
 
A Reflection upon the shortness of Human Life:
 
VERSES, To an Unfortunate Young LADY of Quality.
 
To CÆLIA absent.
 
On the famous Contests between Signora Cuzzoni, and Signora Faustina.
 
Verses wrote in the Summer-House where Sir RICHARD STEEL wrote his Conscious Lovers.
 
Verses wrote in the same Summer-House, as belonging to Capt. NELLY.
 
To a LADY who Plays finely on the Harpsichord, lately recover'd from a Dangerous Fever.
 
To a GENTLEMAN lately Married.
 
On a Statue of VENUS Sleeping.
 
To CÆLIA.
 
A SONG.
 
To CÆLIA.
 
The GLUTTON;
 
A TALE.
 
The Kiss repay'd;
 
The Linx and the Mole;
 
The Two BOOKS;
 
Minos and the Miser;
 
A Prologue to an English PLAY, Perform'd by the young Gentlemen, of Norwich School.
 
An EPISTLE To Mr. J. W. on his Illness.
 
An Answer To the foregoing Epistle.
 
To a Young LADY in the Country.
 
To J. C. Esq
 
A Prologue to the Fair Penitent, Perform'd by the Young Gentlemen of Norwich School.
 
An Epilogue on the same Occasion,
 
Venus's Hue and Cry after Cupid.
 
On a Young LADY's weeping at the Fair Penitent.
 
An EPISTLE to --- Written by Moon-Light.
 
An EPISTLE To Mr. J. W. at Poplar.
 
An Epistile To Mr. --- at Cambridge.
 
An Answer To the foregoing Epistle.
 
Verses Wrote Extempore in the first Leaf of Euclid's Elements.
 
To CÆLIA at Her Toilet.
 
On a Couple lately Married.
 
To a Gentleman in Love with a Negro Woman.
 
Imitation of Horace, Lib. 2. Od. 8.
 
The Travels of a Shilling, Imitated from the Tatler.
 
Verses, Wrote on the 2d. of February.
 
The Song of Moses, Imitated from the 15th Chapter of Exodus.
 
Verses On the Twenty Ninth of May;
 
On CÆLIA's refusing to see ME.
 
The 6th Epistle in Horace,
 
The Same continued.
 
To CHLOE.
 
A Speech of HERCULES,
 
David's Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan,
 
ODE On the Fifth of November.
 
Verses On the Twenty Ninth of May.
 
On the Death of EDWARD late Lord Bishop of Chichester.
 
Job, Chap. 20, Verse 5, 6, 7, 8, Imitated.
 
The 4th Hymn of CALLIMACHUS.
 
EUROPA, From Moschus.
 
KEW Gardens.

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To CÆLIA at Her Toilet.

Let Nymphs less Bright, with nicest Care,
Their else too feeble Charms improve;
Learn from their Glass a softer Air,
And teach their Smiles to kindle Love;
Lay ev'ry Hair with studious Art,
Place ev'ry patch with just Design,
Bid ev'ry Dimple know its part,
Each ruddy Lip its forces join.
Thy perfect Charms might well despise
Each labour'd elegance of Dress;
No Art can e'er improve those Eyes,
No plainness make their Lustre less.
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Spontaneous white the Lilly decks,
With native Red the Rose Bud glows,
Charming beyond the borrow'd streaks
In which the gaudiest Tulip blows:
Thus will th'admiring World confess,
Fair Cælia, thy unpurchas'd Charms;
Those genuine Smiles thy only Dress,
Those killing Eyes, thy surest Arms.
Nor less thy faithful Swain wou'd Love,
Tho' Sickness turn'd thy Beauties pale;
Truth, Wit, and Sense will ever move,
Tho' Ceruss and Vermillion fail.
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