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Original Poems and Translations
By Francis Fawkes
Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777)
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BRAMHAM-PARK.
A DESCRIPTION OF CALYPSO and her GROTTO.
AN EPITHALAMIC ODE.
THE DEATH of the LARK.
THE SPARROW.
ON THE DEATH of a Young Gentleman.
AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND IN YORKSHIRE.
On a Lady's singing, and playing upon the Harpsichord.
ON THE DEATH of the Right Honourable The EARL of UXBRIDGE.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE The COUNTESS of UXBRIDGE.
To LAURA.
SONG to LAURA Absent.
A NOSEGAY for LAURA.
To LAURA Absent.
TO HIS GRACE Dr. THOMAS HERRING, Lord Archbishop of CANTERBURY,
TO Mrs. HERRING.
A VERNAL ODE,
ODE TO SUMMER.
AN AUTUMNAL ODE.
ODE ON WINTER.
AN ODE.
AURELIUS:
ON THE DEATH Of his most Sacred Majesty KING GEORGE the SECOND.
TO His most SACRED MAJESTY,
A PARODY on a PASSAGE IN MILTON's PARADISE LOST. Book IV.
THE LORD's PRAYER.
DAVID's LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN.
The PICTURE of OLD-AGE:
A GOOD WIFE.
NATHAN's PARABLE.
THE SONG of DEBORAH.
EPITAPHS.
I.
I. On a very good WOMAN.
II.
II. On a Young GENTLEMAN,
III.
III. ON A WORTHY FRIEND,
IV.
IV. On the Rev. Mr. COOKSON,
V.
V. On Mrs. FOUNTAYNE,
VI.
VI. On a young Gentleman, who died for Love.
VII.
VII. On JAMES FOX, Esq
TO A YOUNG LADY,
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DOBBIN,
EPITHALAMIUM
THE SMOKING Doctor's SOLILOQUY over his Pipe.
BEAU DAPPER's SOLILOQUY IN PRAISE OF SNUFF.
WOMAN:
The BROWN JUG:
A Pair of SPECTACLES.
The STAGE-COACH.
ΔΩΡΟΝ ΑΔΩΡΟΝ. Thank you for Nothing.
AN ELOGY ON Sir ISAAC NEWTON,
CLAUDIAN's Old Man,
ARCHIMEDES's SPHERE.
ON MENANDER.
FRAGMENTS OF MENANDER.
WILL with a WISP.
A VOYAGE to the PLANETS.
THE TEMPLE of DULNESS.
A MECHANICAL SOLUTION OF THE Propagation of Yawning.
A DESCRIPTION OF MAY.
A DESCRIPTION OF WINTER.
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The
Rich
and
Young
should marry.
Those
that are rich, and in the bloom of life,
May wed and prove the comforts of a wife;
But who postpone the bliss till past their prime,
Must pay large interest for neglect of time.
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