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Poems on Several Occasions, Together with a Pastoral

By Mrs. S. F. [i.e. Sarah Egerton]

Egerton, Sarah Fyge

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To Mrs. S. F. on her Poems.

To Mrs. S. F. on her Poems.

To Mrs. S. F. on her incomparable Poems.

To my Ingenious Friend Mrs. S. F. on her Poems.

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On the Honourable Robert Boyl's, Notion of Nature.

Satyr against the Muses.

To the Lady Cambell, with a Female Advocate.

On my leaving London, June the 29.

The Repulse to Alcander.

To Mr. Norris, on his Idea of Happiness.

To one who in Love, set a Figure.

At my leaving Cambridge August the 14th, Extempore.

To Orabella, Marry'd to an old Man.

To Alexis, on his absence.

A SONG.

To One who said I must not Love.

On the death of dear Statyra.

On being ------ tax'd with Symony.

An occasional Copy, in Answer to Mr. Joshua Barns, Extempore.

Song on Madam S---.

On a Gentleman and his Wife visiting a Lady.

The Power of Love.

The Invocation.

On the Author of Religion by Reason, or the Light of Nature a Guide to Divine Truth.

On a Sermon Preach'd Sept. the 6th, 1697. on these Words, You have sold your selves for Nought.

On my leaving S---y.

On my wedding Day.

An Ode on the Death of Mr. Dryden.

To Thyrsis on his Pastoral to Mr. Creech.

Delia to Phraartes on his Playing Cæsar Borgia.

To Clarona drawing Alexis's Picture and presenting it to me.

Erato the Amorous Muse on the Death of John Dryden, Esq.

Delia to Phraartes on his mistake of three Ladies writing to him.

To Mr. Yalden, on his Temple of Fame, Extempore.

On the Death of William III, King of England.

To N. Tate, Esq; on his Poem on the Queen's Picture, Drawn by Closterman.

To my much valu'd Friend Moneses.

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The fond Shepherdess.

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A SONG.

Curse on this Virtue Constancy,
Of which we're vainly Proud;
It like a Crime doth Torture me,
Since all my softer thoughts of Bliss,
And ev'ry kind and tender Wish,
Is on a careless thankless Swain bestow'd.

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I with more ease could bear my Fate,
Forgive his Cruelty,
If stupidly our Sex he hate:
But he doth Smile on every Fair,
The partial Curse I cannot bear,
For, oh he's kind! he's kind! to all but me.