The Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison

Pattison, William (1706-1727)

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MEMOIRS OF THE Author's LIFE, &c.

ODE.

[Three Poetasters in One Age were born]

[As the Brute-World to Father Adam came]

[Whoever gives himself the Pains to stoop]

[There is a Time, when Love no Wish denies]

YARICO to INKLE:

VERSES on the Death of Mr. W. Pattison.

TO A FRIEND.

THE Jealous SHEPHERD; A PASTORAL.

TO Mr. JOHN SAUNDERS,

TO Mr. SAUNDERS,

BURLESQUE.

A SESSION OF THE Cambridge POETS.

Rosamond to Henry: AN EPISTLE.

Henry to Rosamond: AN EPISTLE.

THE HOUR-GLASS.

The Cambridge Beauties.

ABELARD to ELOISA.

TO The last (King George's) Guinea.

To a Needle, that pricked his Mistress's Finger.

On LAURINDA.

THE BEE and CUPID.

TO AN Old Lady that used to Paint.

To One who blamed me for Writing in Praise of a very undeserving Lady.

AN Unseasonable Surprize.

Presenting Waller's Poems to a Lady.

TO A Lady at King's-College Chapel, Cambridge.

ΚΥΝΔΥΜΟΓΕΝΙΑ: A TALE.

The FOP.

The Refusal of Her Hand.

THE Morning Contemplation.

THE INDIFFERENT: Wrote to a Gentleman in Love.

VERSES, Occasioned by the Fifth of November.

THE EXCHANGE.

ON CRASSUS.

THE ROVER Fixed.

THE Shooting Match: TO CUPID.

CHLOE Reproved.

THE Nightingale and Shepherd, Imitated from Strada.

THE Court of VENUS, From CLAUDIAN.

Orpheus and Eurydice,

Upon a NEEDLE:

TO Mr. Taylor, A. B. of St. John's, &c.

To LAURA.

To the Same, Weeping.

To the SAME. ON HER PATCHES.

TO Her RING.

ON A Lady's Necklace.

TO A LADY, Who is most Beautiful, when Angry.

On WOMEN.

TO Mrs. WIGMORE,

TO Mr. EUSDEN,

AN Apology to Mr. Bell.

An Natura intendat Monstrum? Neg.

To Mr. ROCHE,

TO A Wretched Poetaster;

SONG.

FROM London to Cambridge.

To the Same.

TO Mr. MITCHELL,

ON HIS MISTRESS's Favours.

TO Mr. POPE.

VERSES:

Upon seeing a Lady at the Musick-Booth at Sturbridge-Fair.

TO A LADY, That sent me a Flowered Cap.

ODE on LIGHT

TO Mrs. MARY FREWEN,

TO THE Countess of Hertford.

To the Right Honourable the Lord CARTERET.

A HARVEST Scene.

EFFIGIES AUTHORIS.

ON A Gentleman's Picture.

VERSES By Way of Contraste to the foregoing Copy, and wrote upon the same Occasion.

On CRASSUS.

WOMEN and WINE:

NANCY, the Bed-maker.

On a Lady's Erasing the Picture of Bathsheba Bathing, represented in a Snuff-Box.

AD CÆLUM.

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Miscellaneous POEMS.

Select Epistles from OVID.

Leander to Hero, Priestess of the Temple of Venus

Laodamia to Protesilaus

LAURA: OR, THE MISTRESS.

AN EPISTLE TO LAURA.

On a Rose gathered, by Laura, in Winter.

On Laura's Singing.

To Laura, walking in the Rain.

To Laura, who thought I mistook her for another in the Dark.

Laura's Picture.

On a Feather in her Hair.

Hellen and Laura.

To a Lady, fishing.

THE Fatal Request to Cupid.

On hearing a very homely, and deformed Lady sing finely.

To a Friend in Love.

The Disappointed Maid, and the drowzy Swain.

The Case stated.

A PROLOGUE TO THE FUNERAL:

The Enjoyment.

A Description of his Mistress.

Sent Me, from a Lady, with a Rose.

On an Apple, given me by Laura.

A Song.

On hearing a Lady sing Prior's Alexis.

To a Lady,

On Crito , who wrote against Me.

On Reading the Turtle and Sparrow, A TALE.

On seeing Mr. Prior's Monument in Westminster-Abbey.

A Receipt to make a Modern Poet.

The Battle of the Pygmies and Cranes.

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AN EPISTLE TO HIS MAJESTY, King GEORGE II.

POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS: Wrote by Mr. Pattison,

A Pastoral.

To a Lady.

Upon Belinda, who, gathering a Rose, prick'd her Finger.

The Conquest.

ON CONTENTMENT.

A Divine Poem. Selected from the 18th, and 91st Psalms.

Part of the 38th and 39th Chapters of Job,

AN ELEGY:

TO LAURA.

An Idyllium.

Description of a Shepherd.

The Dissenter.

Amoret and Florimello.

To an old Lady who painted.

Upon Zephyrinda's Singing.

EPIGRAMS.

Spoken Extempore to a Lady, upon seeing her Shadow in the Water.

Upon a Lame Man newly married.

Written with a Penknife on a Tree.

Upon a Lady's having been at Naples.

Wrote in a Lady's Pocket-Book.

On a Drunkard's writing his Mistress's Name on a Drinking-Glass.

The Quack.

The Miser.

From Horace.

Upon a Lame, Latin Elegiac, Bard.

Speak Truth and Shame the Devil.

Upon One who stiled himself a Great Master of the Easy Poetry.

On a Lady's Birth-Day.

TOAST.

Another.

Upon the Lord Rochester's Poem on Nothing.

TO CÆLIA.

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TO A LADY, That sent me a Flowered Cap.

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What Flowers of Rhet'rick can I use
These brighter Flowers to commend?
What Gift, or Present, can I chuse,
Equivalent to send?

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I've search'd the Muses fertile Field,
But searching no where can find such,
Nor even Nature's Self can yield,
What I admire so much.

III

This Token, o'er my Temples spread,
A double Power does impart;
For as it gently warms my Head,
It fires my bleeding Heart.

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But let the blust'ring Storms engage,
The ruffling Winds blow high;
Thus arm'd I'll mock their empty Rage,
And every Blast defy.

V

Like the bold Grecian-chief I stand,
In Arms superior Shine;
Like His, they boast an Heavenly Hand,
But Skill, much more Divine!

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He did not fear a Wound, 'tis true,
From none, except the Deities:
And I'm invulnerable too,
To All—except my Laura's Eyes.

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