Alexander Pope: Minor poems :: :: University of Virginia Library

I. To my much Honoured and Esteemed Friend, Mr. E. Barnivelt, Author of the Key to the Lock. An Anagram and Acrostick. By N. Castleton, A Well-willer to the Coalition of Parties.

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II. To the Ingenious Mr. E. Barnivelt.

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III. To my Ingenious Friend, the Author of the Key to the Lock.

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IV. To the most Learned Pharmacopolitan, and Excellent Politician, Mr. Esdras Barnivelt.

CHARACTERS

THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.

To Mr. John Moore,

A Roman Catholick Version OF THE FIRST PSALM,

IMITATION OF MARTIAL,

Written over a Study; out of Maynard.

SANDYS's GHOST:

EPIGRAM.

PROLOGUE TO THE Three Hours after Marriage.

THE COURT BALLAD.

EPIGRAMS, Occasion'd by An Invitation to Court.

VERSES Sent to Mrs. T. B. with his Works.

The PRAYER of BRUTUS.

A HYMN Written in WINDSOR Forest.

LINES to Lord BATHURST.

VERSES in the SCRIBLERIAN Manner.

THREE EPITAPHS On John Hewet and Sarah Drew .

ANSWER to Mrs. HOWE

A DIALOGUE.

On Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Portrait.

TO Sir Godfrey Kneller,

In behalf of Mr. SOUTHERNE. To the Duke of ARGYLE.

Lines from ACIS and GALATEA.

DUKE upon DUKE.

An Inscription upon a Punch-Bowl, in the South-Sea Year for a Club, chas'd withJupiter placing Callista in the Skies & Europa with the Bull.

To Mr. GAY,

COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1711–1720

To Mrs. M. B. on her Birth-day.

INSCRIPTION.

EPITAPH

On a certain Lady at Court.

LINES

Receipt to make Soup.

[Presentation Verses to Nathaniel Pigott]

The CAPON'S TALE:

THE DISCOVERY:

EPIGRAM, in a Maid of Honour's Prayer-Book.

Verses on GULLIVER's TRAVELS.

EPITAPH

Fragment of a Satire.

SYLVIA,

LINES FROM The Art of Sinking.

VERSES

To the Right Honourable the Earl of OXFORD.

EPITAPH.

EPITAPHS

EPIGRAMS from THE DUNCIAD. 1729–1730.

COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1721–1730

PROLOGUE TO SOPHONISBA. By a Friend.

On the Countess of B--- cutting Paper.

HORACE, Satyr 4. Lib. 1. Paraphrased.

Wrote by Mr. P. in a Volume of Evelyn on Coins, presented to a painter by a parson.

THE SIX MAIDENS.

EPITAPH.

POEMS from Miscellanies. The Third Volume. 1732.

The CRUX-EASTON Epigrams.

To the Earl of Burlington asking who writ the Libels against him.

PROLOGUE, For the Benefit of Mr. DENNIS, 1733.

To Ld. Hervey & Lady Mary Wortley

[A CHARACTER]

EPIGRAMS Occasioned by Cibber's Verses in Praise of Nash.

EPITAPH.

EPIGRAM.

EPITAPH On John Knight.

On receiving from the Right Hon. the LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY A STANDISH AND TWO PENS

On lying in the Earl of ROCHESTER's Bed at ATTERBURY.

VERSES on a GROTTO by the River Thames at Twickenham, composed of Marbles, Spars, and Minerals.

EPIGRAM.

EPITAPH.

Verbatim from Boileau,

On the Benefactions in the late Frost, 1740.

COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1731–1740

EPIGRAMS.

EPIGRAM.

TOM SOUTHERNE's Birth-day Dinner at LD. ORRERY's.

EPIGRAM

EPITAPH On Mr. ROWE.

EPIGRAM.

Fragment of Brutus, an Epic

Lines on BOUNCE.

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I. To my much Honoured and Esteemed Friend, Mr. E. Barnivelt, Author of the Key to the Lock. An Anagram and Acrostick. By N. Castleton, A Well-willer to the Coalition of Parties.

BARNIVELT. Anagram, UN BAREL IT.

Barrels conceal the Liquor they contain,
And Sculls are but the Barrels of the Brain.
Ripe Politicks the Nation's Barrel fill,
None can like thee its Fermentation still.
Ingenious Writer, lest thy Barrel split,
Vnbarrel thy just Sense, and broach thy Wit.
Extract from Tory Barrels all French Juice,
Let not the Whigs Geneva's Stumm infuse,
Then shall thy Barrel be of gen'ral Use.

N. CASTLETON.