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Poems Upon Several Occasions

By Benj. Hawkshaw

Hawkshaw, Benjamin

[epigraph]

[dedication]

[section]

Love-Verses, SONGS AND TRANSLATIONS, By the same Hand.

Translated from the Italian Poets.

The Disappointment.

My Wish.

All for Love.

Translated from the Italian Poets.

My DREAM, sent in a Letter to a Friend.

A SONG.

On a Lady who always carried a Looking-Glass with her.

The VISION.

The Incurable.

On a Lady who slighted my Love.

A SONG.

The Despair.

Her Influence.

Translated from the Italian Poets. ODE XXIV.

Her Presence.

A SONG.

The second Elegy of the Fourth Book of Tibullus, translated: Sulpitia's praise.

A Description of Mrs. E. T. as I saw her in the Exchange.

The FEVER.

A SONG.

The BOLDNESS.

The Fourth Elegy of the Fourth Book of Tibullas, translated.

The DISCOVERY.

Translated from the Italian Poets.

A SONG.

The Third Elegy of the Fourth Book of Tibullas, translated.

Platonick Love.

The Fourteenth Elegy of the Second Book of Propertius, translated.

Translated from the Italian Poets. ODE XXXII.

A Letter to a young Lady, who sent me a Box of Pills, when she heard I was ill.

On a beautiful Lady who was going to kill herself, when she was at Supper, had she not been accidentally prevented by one of the Company.

A SONG.

Translated from the Italian Poets.

The FAREWEL.

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A SONG.

[Whilst on those blushing Cheeks I gaze]

I

Whilst on those blushing Cheeks I gaze,
I tremble and am all on Fire,
In pleasures of so blest amaze,
Thy Glances do but fan Desire.

II

Pity my Fault, dear Girl, if I
Eager to grasp thy sunny Frame,
Like an ambitious Meteor fly,
To perish in so bright a Flame.

III

Surely some Noble Hero fell
In that most precious Sea of thine,
And to reward his Courage well,
Venus has made him there to shine.

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IV

Nor can this Beauty fade away,
For want of any new Supplies,
Regardless of the scorching Day,
Fed by those living Springs thine Eyes.