A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes

Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)

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THE PROGRESS of LOVE. IN Four ECLOGUES.

SOLILOQUY Of a BEAUTY in the Country.

BLENHEIM.

TO THE Reverend Dr. AYSCOUGH at Oxford.

To Mr. POYNTZ, Ambassador at the Congress of Soissons, in the Year 1728.

VERSES to be written under a Picture of Mr. POYNTZ.

An Epistle to Mr. POPE.

To my Lord --- In the Year 1730.

ADVICE to a LADY.

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DAMON and DELIA. In Imitation of Horace and Lydia.

ODE, in Imitation of Pastor Fido.

Part of an Elegy of Tibullus, translated.

SONG.

Written at Mr. Pope's House at Twickenham, which he had lent to Mrs. G---lle.

EPIGRAM.

To Mr. West at Wickham.

To Miss LUCY F---

To the Same, with Hammond's Elegies.

To the Same.

A Prayer to Venus in her Temple at Stowe. To the Same.

To the Same. On her pleading want of Time.

To the Same.

To the same with a New Watch.

An Irregular ODE written at Wickham, in 1746. To the Same.

To the Memory of the same LADY, A MONODY. A. D. 1747.

VERSES Making Part of an EPITAPH on the same LADY.

ON THE ABUSE of TRAVELLING.

THE INSTITUTION OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER.

An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cornbury.

An EPISTLE.

An EPISTLE to a LADY.

An EPISTLE to Mr. POPE.

EPISTLE to POLLIO, from the Hills of Howth in Ireland.

An ODE to William Pultney, Esq;

An Ode to the Right Honourable the Lord Lonsdale.

An INSCRIPTION on the Tomb, Raised to the memory of the author's father, and of others his ancestors.

EPIGRAMS.

The Danger of Writing Verse.

To the Honourable ---

To Mr. GARRICK.

NATURE to Dr. HOADLY.

The Youth and the Philosopher. A FABLE.

An ODE to a Gentleman, On his pitching a Tent in his Garden.

On a Message-Card in Verse. Sent by a LADY.

The Je ne scai Quoi. A SONG.

An ODE On a distant Prospect of ETON COLLEGE.

ODE.

ODE on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes.

A MONODY On the Death of Queen CAROLINE.

A PIPE of TOBACCO: In Imitation of Six Several Authors.

ODE to the Hon. C. Y.

From CÆLIA to CLOE.

ON A FIT of the GOUT.

Horace, Ode 14. Book I. imitated in 1746.

The Female Right to Literature, in a Letter to a young Lady from Florence.

On Shakespear's Monument at Stratford upon Avon.

A SONG.

CHISWICK.

The INDIFFERENT.

The Triumph of INDIFFERENCE.

The Shepherd's Farewel to his Love.

RIDDLE.

Audivere, Lyce, &c. Hor. Book 4. Ode 13. Imitated.

A SONNET. Imitated from the Spanish of Lopez de Vega. Menagiana tom. iv. p. 176.

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Written in the Year 1733. By the Same.

[The heavy hours are almost past]

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The heavy hours are almost past
That part my Love and me;
My longing eyes may hope at last,
Their only wish to see.

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But how, my Delia, will you meet
The man you've lost so long?
Will Love in all your pulses beat,
And tremble on your tongue?

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Will you in every look declare
Your heart is still the same?
And heal each idly anxious care
Our fears in absence frame?

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Thus, Delia, thus I paint the scene,
When shortly we shall meet,
And try what yet remains between
Of loit'ring time to cheat.

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But if the dream that sooths my mind
Shall false and groundless prove;
If I am doom'd at length to find
You have forgot to love;

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All I of Venus ask, is this;
No more to let us join;
But grant me here the flatt'ring bliss,
To Die and Think you mine.

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Written in the Year 1733. By the Same.

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