A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes

Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

VOL. I.

ON THE PROSPECT OF PEACE, A POEM. To the LORD PRIVY-SEAL.

To the Right Honourable the Earl of WARWICK, &c.

COLIN AND LUCY.

AN IMITATION OF THE PROPHECY OF NEREUS.

TO Sir GODFREY KNELLER, at his Country Seat.

ON THE Death of the Earl of CADOGAN.

AN ODE Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the EARL OF SUNDERLAND AT WINDSOR.

KENSINGTON GARDEN.

AN EPISTLE from a Lady in England, TO A GENTLEMAN at Avignon.

THE FEMALE REIGN: AN ODE.

The LOVER: A Ballad. To Mr. C---

The LADY's Resolve.

The GENTLEMAN's Answer.

An EPISTLE to Lord B---

EPILOGUE To MARY, Queen of SCOTS.

A RECEIPT to Cure the Vapours.

The SPLEEN. An EPISTLE to Mr. C--- J---.

An EPIGRAM.

The SPARROW and DIAMOND.

JOVE and SEMELE.

The SEEKER.

On Barclay's Apology for the Quakers.

PRE-EXISTENCE: A POEM, In Imitation of MILTON.

CHIRON to ACHILLES. A POEM.

ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ. Know your SELF.

LONDON: A POEM, In Imitation of the Third SATIRE of JUVENAL.

PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY Mr. GARRICK, At the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-lane 1747.

Of Active and Retired Life. AN EPISTLE to H. C. Esq;

GRONGAR HILL.

THE RUINS of ROME. A POEM.

THE SCHOOL-MISTRESS. A POEM, In Imitation of Spenser.

THE ART of POLITICKS,

THE MAN of TASTE.

AN ESSAY ON CONVERSATION.

ODE, to a LADY. On the Death of Col. Charles Ross, in the Action at Fontenoy.

ODE, Written in the same Year.

ODE to EVENING.

VERSES written on a Blank Leaf,

ADVICE to a Lady in Autumn.

On a Lady drinking the Bath-Waters.

VERSES written in a Lady's Sherlock upon Death.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

Collapse All | Expand All expand section

SONG.

By the Same.

[As Chloe ply'd her needle's art]

As Chloe ply'd her needle's art,
A purple drop the spear
Made from her heedless finger start,
And from her eyes a tear.

Ah! might but Chloe by her smart
Be taught for mine to feel;
Mine caus'd by Cupid's piercing dart,
More sharp than pointed steel!

271

Then I her needle would adore,
Love's arrow it should be,
Indu'd with such a subtle pow'r
To reach her heart for me.

University of Virginia Library

SONG.

By the Same.

[As Chloe ply'd her needle's art]