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Poems On several Choice and Various Subjects

Occasionally Composed By An Eminent Author. Collected and Published by Sergeant-Major P. F. [i.e. James Howell]

Howell, James (1594?-1666)

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POEMS Upon several Emergent Occasions.

The Progress of the Human Soul:

A Speculation.

Of some Pious Meditations, when Prisoner for the King in the Fleet.

A Contemplation upon the shortness and shallowness of Human Knowledg.

A Prophetic Poem (partly accomplished) to his present Majesty then Prince, 1640.

A Rapture upon Delia.

Of the tru Observation of Lent.

Before the History of Lewis the 13. (with his Cardinal Richlieu) called Lustra Ludovici.

Before LONDINOPOLIS:

Before Bishop Andrews most holy Meditations and Prayers.

Before that large and elaborat Work, called, The German Diet

AXIOMA.

Before my Lord of Cherberry's History of King Hen. 8.

OF TRANSLATIONS, Upon rendring into English a choice Venetian Romance, called, EROMENA,

Another.

The Dedication To Great Britain, of that Voluminous Work, Lexicon Tetraglotton:

Of the Original of the English Toung, And her Association With the Italian, Spanish, and French, &c.

Before a great Volume of PROVERBS, In Five Languages.

Of the strange vertu of VVords, Before The Great NOMENCLATURA;

Upon the great Drammatical Work of B. and Fletcher, publish'd 1646.

To his late Majesty, at the Dedication unto Him of DODONAS GROVE,

To Prince Charles, (now King.)

Before the VOCAL FOREST, To the knowing Reader, Touching the Progress of Learning.

To the Common Reader.

To the Critical Reader.

Touching the Vertu and Use Of Familiar Letters.

To the Sagacious Reader.

Upon a Rare and Recent Persian TRAGY-HISTORY.

An Elegie upon EDWARD late Earl of Dorset, 1651.

An EPITHALAMIUM Upon the Nuptials of that Princely Pair, Henry Lo. Marquiss of Dorchester, And the Lady Katherine, Daughter to the late Heroik Earl of Darby:

An HYMENÆUM,

A Poem Heroique,

Before The History of NAPLES, Called, PARTHENOPE,

Of the most curious Gardens, Groves, Mounts, Arbours, &c. Contriv'd, and lately made by The Lord Vicount Killmorry, At Dutton-Hall in Cheshire.

Before that Exquisit large Peece, A Survay Of the City and Signory of Venice.

A Fit of MORTIFICATION.

A Lovers Protestation.

Upon Himself, having been buried alive for many years in the Prison of the Fleet,

A Gradual Hymn of a double cadence, tending to the Honour of the Holy Name of God.

Upon a Beutiful Valentine.

Upon Black Eyes, and Becoming Frowns.

Upon Clorinda's Mask.

Upon Dr. Davies British-Grammar.

Upon Christmas-Day.

Upon my Honoured Friend and F. Mr. Ben. Johnson.

For the admitting Mistriss Anne King to be the tenth Muse.

A Hymn to the Blessed Trinity.

A short Ejaculation.

A Hymn of Mortification.

A Holy RAPTURE.

An EJACULATION To my CREATOR.

Upon a Fit of DISCONSOLATION, or Despondency of Spirit.

Upon the most Noble Work of the Lo. Mar. of Winchester,

Upon the untimely Death of the Lord Fra. Villars,

Upon the Holy Sacrament.

A Divine EJACULATION.

Of the Scene, and ingenious Composure of a Florentine Tragi-Comedy.

Upon the Poems of Dr. Aylet,

The Description of a Morning Expergefaction,

To Mrs. E. B. Upon a sudden SURPRISAL.

Upon the Nativity of our Saviour, Christmas-Day.

To my Dear Mother, The University of Oxford,

Upon a Cupboard of Venice-Glasses, sent for a New-years-gift to a choice Lady.

A Passionat ELEGIE Upon His Long-endeared Friend, Daniel Caldwal Esq

An ELEGIE Upon his Tomb in Horndon-Hill Church, Erected by his Wife, Who speaks

Sent with a Prayer-Book to a Pious Lady.

To DELIA.

A sudden SPECULATION Beyond the Seas.

Of Female Hypocrisie, In a short Dialog twixt Dion and Thyrsis.

Of some, Who blending their Brains together, plotted how to bespatter one of the Muses choicest Sons and Servants,

Upon Mr. Cleveland.

Upon Dr. Howel, Lord Bishop of Bristol, Who died a little after the putting down of Episcopacy.

Before the Second Part Of DODONAS GROVE.

The Conclusion of the Second Part Of DODONAS GROVE.

To my most Endeared R. Altham, Esq

Upon A New-fashion'd Table-Book, Sent Him for a Token from Amsterdam.

Upon EASTER-DAY.

A PARALLEL Twixt Angels and Men.

To my choice, and most endeared Friend, Mr. R. A.

Upon this rare Erotique Subject, The Master-piece of Love,

To his worthy Friend, Mr. Wallan,

A Pregnant Vow For a safe and seasonable Delivery To The Excellent Lady, the Lady KATHERINE, Marchioness of Dorchester.

Upon his Majesties Return, With the Dukes of York and Glocester.

Before ΟΗΡΟΑΟΓΙΑ.

An Eucharistical Rapture, With A Gradual Hymn to the Heavenly Hierarchy.

Upon the Exquisit Romance of the Bishop of Bellay, Made English out of the French, By Serjeant-Major John Wright

To Mr. Math. Johnson,

Upon Mr. Benlowes Divine Theophila.

On Doctor Charletons learned Piece, by proving that Stone-henge is a Danish-Monument,

Of Mrs. Diana Bill,

Upon Her Majesties 31 days sayling from Lisbon to England.

Upon the Posthume-Poems of Mr. Lovelace.

Upon the Gran Climacterik Year—63.

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An EPITHALAMIUM Upon the Nuptials of that Princely Pair, Henry Lo. Marquiss of Dorchester, And the Lady Katherine, Daughter to the late Heroik Earl of Darby:

In a Dialog Twixt Philemon and Sylvius.

Philemon.

What Object's that which I behold
Dazzling my Eyes with Gems and Gold?
Her Face, me thinks, darts such a Ray
That adds more brightness to the Day:
Her Breath perfumes the place, Her Curls and hair
Like Indian Spice Aromatize the Air.
A sparkling White and Black breaks from her sight
Like to the Diamonds redoubling light;
As she doth walk the very ground and stone,
Turn to Field-Argent which she treads upon.

A Mortal sure she cannot be,
But some transcending Deity.

My dearest Sylvius, pray unfold
Who's that rare Creture I behold?

Sylvius.
She is a Princess and a Bride
Goes to the Temple to be tide
In Nuptial Bonds; Her Stars will not permit
That at the Vestal fires she longer sit.
She's Derby's Royal Blood, Derby le Gran,
And now she travels to the Ile of Man.
She of the Princely Orenge is a Branch,
Imp'd on the high Trimouillan stem of France,
Two of the fairest Kingdoms strove, and tride
Their utmost to compleat this lovely Bride.
'Tis She which makes 'twixt Gems and Gold
That Constellation you behold.

Philemon.
But who's that comely Sanguin Peer
Which on her heart-side walks so neer?
He likewise makes all Argent as he goes:
Look at his feet how thick the Cinqfoyl grows.

Sylvius.
'Tis wise and wealthy Pierrpoint, who renowns
With Titles three of Englands chiefest Towns:
A precious Pond'rous Lord, whose sole Estate
A Jury of new Barons might create,

Patron of Vertu, Chivalry and Arts,
Cause he himself excels in all these parts.
'Tis he who by the hand doth hold
That Demi-Goddess you behold.

Philemon.
Is't so? then my Autumnal Muse shall sing
An Hymenæum, and fetch back her Spring
This subject a fresh vigor doth inspire,
And heats my brain with an unusual fire.