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Poems and Songs

by Thomas Flatman. The Fourth Edition with many Additions and Amendments

Flatman, Thomas (1637-1688)

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On the Excellent POEMS Of my most Worthy Friend, Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN.

To my Friend Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN Upon the Publication of his POEMS.

To my Friend Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN, On the Publishing of these his POEMS.

To his esteemed Friend Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN, Upon the Publishing of his POEMS.

To my Worthy Friend Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN, Upon the Publishing of his POEMS.

TO THE AUTHOR On his excellent POEMS.

To my dear Friend Mr. THOMAS FLATMAN, Upon the Publication of his POEMS.

On the Death of the RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS EARL of OSSORY.

To the Memory of the Incomparable ORINDA.

To my Reverend Friend, Dr. SAM. WOODFORD, On his Excellent Version of the PSALMS.

On the Death of the truly valiant GEORGE Duke of ALBEMARLE.

The Retirement.

Translated out of a Part of Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon.

A Thought of DEATH.

Psalm xxxix. Vers. 4, 5.

Hymn for the Morning.

Anthem for the Evening.

ON Mr. JOHNSON'S

An Explanation of an EMBLEM

Against THOUGHTS.

A Dooms-Day Thought.

Virtus sola manet, cætera mortis erunt.

Psalm XV. Paraphrased.

AN ELEGY On the EARL of SANDWICH.

AN EPITAPH On the EARL of SANDWICH.

On the Death of Mr. Pelham Humfries.

The Incredulous.

Weeping at Parting.

The Desperate Lover.

The Expectation.

Coridon Converted.

The Batchelors Song.

[The Batchelors Song.] The Second Part.

An Appeal to Cats in the business of Love.

Advice to an Old Man of sixty three, about to Marry a Girl of sixteen.

PHYLLIS withdrawn.

The Malecontent.

The Indifferent.

The Unconcerned.

Celadon on Delia singing.

TO Mr. SAM. AUSTIN Of Wadham Coll. OXON,

TO MY Ingenious Friend Mr. WILLIAM FAITHORN

On the Commentaries of Messire Blaize de MONTLUC.

A Character of a BELLY-GOD

The Disappointed.

ON Mrs. E. MONTAGUE's Blushing in the Cross-Bath.

ON Mrs. Dove, Wife to the Reverend Dr. Henry Dove.

On the Eminent Dr. EDWARD BROWN'S TRAVELS.

Urania to her Friend Parthenissa.

On the Death of the Earl of ROCHESTER.

ON DR. WOODFORD'S PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES.

LAODAMIA to PROTESILAUS.

TO THE Excellent Master of MUSICK SEIGNIOR PIETRO REGGIO,

ON THE DEATH Of my Dear Brother Mr. RICHARD FLATMAN.

CORIDON On the death of his dear ALEXIS,

A SONG ON Newyears-day before the King, Car. 2.

ON The Kings Return to White-hall, after his Summers Progress, 1684.

TO Mr. ISAAC WALTON.

Pastoral Dialogue.

CASTABELLA Going to Sea.

On the Death of my worthy friend Mr. JOHN OLDHAM.

On the DEATH OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE RUPERT:

On the much lamented DEATH OF OUR LATE SOVEREIGN LORD King Charles II.

TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY King James II.

ODES OF HORACE PARAPHRASED BY THOMAS FLATMAN.

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CORIDON On the death of his dear ALEXIS,

Ob. Jan. 28. 1682/3.

Pastoral SONG.

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Set by Dr. BLOWE.

Alexis! dear Alexis! lovely Boy!
O my Damon! O Palæmon! snatcht away,
To some far-distant Region gone,
Has left the miserable Coridon
Bereft of all his comforts, all alone!
Have you not seen my gentle Lad,
Whom every Swain did love,
Cheerful, when every Swain was sad,
Beneath the melancholy Grove?

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His face was beauteous as the dawn of day,
Broke through the gloomy shades of night:
O my anguish! my delight!
Him (ye kind Shepherds) I bewail,
Till my eyes, and heart shall fail.
Tis He that's landed on that distant shore,
And you and I, shall see him here no more.
Return Alexis! O return!
Return, return, in vain I cry;
Poor Coridon shall never cease to mourn
Thy too untimely, cruel destiny.
Farewel for ever charming Boy!
And, with Thee, all the transports of my Joy!
Ye powers above, why should I longer live,
To waste a few uncomfortable years,
To drown my self in tears,
For what my sighs, and pray'rs can ne'r retrieve?