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The Third Volume of the Works of Mr. William Congreve

containing Poems upon Several Occasions
Congreve, William (1670-1729)

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EPISTLE TO THE Right Honourable CHARLES Lord HALIFAX, &c.
  
THE Mourning Muse OF ALEXIS.
  
TO THE KING, On the Taking of NAMURE.
  
THE Birth of the Muse.
  
ON Mrs. ARABELLA HUNT, SINGING.
  
Priam's Lamentation and Petition TO ACHILLES, For the Body of his Son HECTOR.
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THE LAMENTATIONS OF Hecuba, Adromache, and Helen, Over the dead Body of HECTOR.
  
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Andromache's Lamentation.
  
Hecuba's Lamentation.
  
Helen's Lamentation.
  
PARAPHRASE UPON HORACE. ODE XIX. LIB. I.
  
STANZA'S In Imitation of Horace, Lib. II. Ode XIV.
  
In Imitation of HORACE. Ode IX. Lib. I.
  
SONG.
  
THE RECONCILIATION.
  
ABSENCE.
  
SONG.
  
SONG in DIALOGUE, For TWO WOMEN.
  
SONG.
  
THE PETITION.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
Occasioned on a LADY's, HAVING Writ Verses in Commendation of a Poem which was written in Praise of another Lady.
  
EPIGRAM,
  
SONG.
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A HYMN TO HARMONY. In Honour of St. CECILIA's Day, MDCCI.
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VERSES To the Memory of Grace Lady Gethin,
  
EPITAPH
  
TO Mr. DRYDEN, ON HIS TRANSLATION OF PERSIUS.
  
The ELEVENTH Satire of Juvenal.
  
PROLOGUE TO QUEEN MARY,
  
EPILOGUE
  
PROLOGUE TO Pyrrhus King of Epirus.
  
EPILOGUE TO OROONOKO.
  
PROLOGUE to the Husband his own Cuckold.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE COURT; ON THE QUEEN's Birth-Day, 1704.
  
THE TEARS OF AMARYLLIS for AMYNTAS.
  
TO CYNTHIA, Weeping and not Speaking.
  
AMORET.
  
LESBIA.
  
DORIS.
  
TO SLEEP.
  
TO Sir Godfrey Kneller, Occasion'd By L---y ---s Picture.
  
To a CANDLE.
  
OVID's Third Book OF THE ART of LOVE.
  
OF PLEASING; AN EPISTLE TO Sir RICHARD TEMPLE.
  
A PINDARIQUE ODE, Humbly Offer'd to the QUEEN,
  
To the Right Honourable the Earl of GODOLPHIN, Lord High-Treasurer of GREAT BRITAIN. PINDARIQUE ODE.
  
HOMER's HYMN TO VENUS

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To hazardous Attempts and hardy Toils,
Ambition some excites;
And some, Desire of Martial Spoils
To bloody Fields invites;
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Others, insatiate Thirst of Gain,
Provokes to tempt the dangerous Main,
To pass the burning Line, and bear
Th'Inclemency of Winds, and Seas, and Air;
Pressing the doubtful Voy'ge 'till India's Shore
Her spicy Bosom bares, and spreads her shining Ore.

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Nor Widows Tears, nor tender Orphans Cries,
Can stop th'Invader's Force;
Nor swelling Seas, nor threatning Skies,
Prevent the Pirate's Course:
Their Lives to selfish Ends decreed,
Thro' Blood or Rapine they proceed;
No anxious Thoughts of ill Repute,
Suspend th'impetuous and unjust Pursuit:
But Pow'r and Wealth obtain'd, guilty and great,
Their Fellow-Creatures Fears they raise, or urge their Hate.

III.

But not for these, his Iv'ry Lyre
Will tuneful Phœbus string,
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Nor Polyhymnia crown'd amid the Choir,
Th'immortal Epode sing.
Thy Springs,

Commonly Castalius, but by Virg. Geor. 3. called Castalia, a Fountain at the Foot of Parnassus, sacred to the Muses.

Castalia, turn their Streams aside
From Rapine, Avarice, and Pride;
Nor do thy Greens, shady

Aonia, the hilly and woody Part of Bæotia, believ'd to have been much frequented by the Muses.

Aonia, grow,
To bind with Wreaths a Tyrant's Brow.
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