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Poems on Several Occasions

With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures
Hughes, John (1677-1720)

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VOLUME the FIRST.
  
[dedication]
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POEMS ON Several Occasions.
  
AN ODE. In the PARK at ASTED.
  
TO Mr. CONSTANTINE, On his PAINTINGS.
  
TO URANIA, On her Arrival at Jamaica.
  
[There let Time's creeping Winter shed]
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VERSES To the Memory of Mr. HUGHES.
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THE Court of Neptune.
  
THE House of Nassau.
  
An ODE On the Death of a Friend.
  
ANACREON, ODE THE THIRD.
  
The STORY of Pyramus and Thisbe
  
THE Triumph of Love.
  
THE PICTURE.
  
BARN-ELMS.
  
On the Friendship of Phoebe and Asteria; And the Sickness of the Former.
  
SONG.
  
To Octavia Indispos'd.
  
Beauty and Musick.
  
Cupid's Review.
  
To a Beautiful LADY playing on the ORGAN.
  
SONNET.
  
TO A PAINTER.
  
TO THE Author of Fatal Friendship, A Tragedy.
  
ON Divine Poetry.
  
SONG. Written for the Late Duke of Gloucester's BIRTH-DAY.
  
ON A PEACOCK
  
ON Lucinda's Tea-Table.
  
The MARCH.
  
Written in a Lady's Prayer-Book.
  
ODE on the SPRING.
  
HORACE, ODE III. Book III.
  
GREENWICH-PARK.
  
TO MOLINDA.
  
A Letter to a Friend in the Country.
  
HORACE, BOOK I. ODE XXII.
  
HORACE, BOOK II. ODE XVI. TO GROSPHUS.
  
THE Birth of the Rose.
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SIX CANTATA'S OR Poems for Musick.
  
THE PRAISES OF HEROICK VIRTUE.
  
Under the PRINT of TOM BRITON, the Musical Small-coal Man.
  
SONG. The Fair Traveller.
  
A CANTATA.
  
SONG.
  
Cupid and Scarlati.
  
A CANTATA.
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PASTORA,
  
A Pastoral Masque.
  
A CANTATA.
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
CLAUDIANUS: In Epithalamio Honorii & Mariæ
  
A CANTATA.
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THE Soldier in Love.
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AN ODE IN PRAISE OF MUSICK.
  
Apollo and Daphne.
  
A THOUGHT n a GARDEN.
  
A WISH TO THE New Year, 1705.
  
CANTATA.
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AN ODE FOR Vocal and Instrumental MUSICK.
  
EPILOGUE. Spoken by Mr. MILLS at the QUEEN's Theatre, on his Benefit-Night, February 16, 1709; a little before the DUKE of MARLBOROUGH's going for Holland.
  
THE TENTH BOOK OF Lucan's Pharsalia, TRANSLATED.
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VOLUME the SECOND.

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CANTATA.

[While on your blooming Charms I gaze]

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Set by Mr. GALLIARD.

While on your blooming Charms I gaze,
Your tender Lips, your soft enchanting Eyes,
And all the VENUS in your Face,
I'm fill'd with Pleasure and Surprize:
But, cruel Goddess! when I find
DIANA's Coldness in your Mind,
How can I bear that fix'd Disdain?
My Pleasure dies, and I but live in Pain.

AIR.

Tyrant CUPID! when, relenting,
Will you touch the Charmer's Heart?
Sooth her Breast to soft Consenting,
Or remove from mine the Dart!
Tyrant CUPID! when, relenting,
Will you touch the Charmer's Heart?

Recitative.

But see! while to my Passion Voice I give,
Th'applauded Beauty, doubly bright,
Seems in the moving Tale to take Delight,
And looks, as She wou'd let me live;
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And yet She chides, but with so sweet an Air,
That while She Love denies, She yet forbids Despair.

AIR.

Fear not, doubting Fair! t'approve me;
Can you love me?
Frown not, if you answer No,
If you answer, frown not, No.
When again I ask, pursuing,
If you'll stay and see my Ruin?
Fly—but let me with you go!
Blush not, doubting Fair, t'approve me;
Can you love me?
Smile, and ev'ry Fear forego?
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