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The Works of Mr. Robert Gould

In Two Volumes. Consisting of those Poems [and] Satyrs Which were formerly Printed, and Corrected since by the Author; As also of the many more which He Design'd for the Press. Publish'd from his Own Original Copies [by Robert Gould]

Gould, Robert

VOLUME the FIRST. [POEMS].

[dedication]

On the ensuing POEMS OF Mr. ROBERT GOULD,

[Songs.]

SONG I. Fatal Constancy.

II.

SONG II. The Mistress.

III.

SONG III. The March Chick.

IV.

SONG IV. A Pastoral Dialogue.

SONG V. Wit and Beauty.

VI.

SONG VI. The Complaint.

VII.

SONG VII. The Answer.

VIII.

SONG VIII. Vertue the greater Charm.

IX.

SONG IX. The unwilling Inconstant.

SONG X. Falshood excus'd.

XI.

SONG XI. The Wanderer fix'd

XII.

SONG XII. No Life if no Love.

XIII.

SONG XIII. Pity if you'd be pity'd.

XIV.

SONG XIV. The reasonable Request.

XV.

SONG XV. The Hopeless Comfort.

XVI.

SONG XVI. The Fruitless Caution.

XVII.

SONG XVII. The Invocation.

XVIII.

SONG XVIII. The Enfranchisement.

XIX.

SONG XIX. Help at Hand.

XX.

SONG XX. The Dream.

XXI.

SONG XXI. The Enquiry.

XXII.

SONG XXII. The Boon.

XXII.

SONG XXII. Nothing wanting to Love.

XXIV.

SONG XXIV. The Enquiry resolv'd.

XXV.

SONG XXV. The Caution.

XXVI.

SONG XXVI. The Lover's Fortune.

XXVII.

SONG XXVII. The Tyranny of Love.

XXVIII.

SONG XXVIII. To Mirtillo.

XXIX.

SONG XXIX. Silvia.

XXX.

SONG XXX. Women's Vows.

XXXI.

SONG XXXI. The Farewel.

Love Verses.

The Captive.

To Cælia, desiring his Absence.

Despair.

The first Sight of Silvia.

Silvia Luke-warm.

Silvia kind.

Silvia in the Country.

A Letter from Silvia.

Silvia yet in the Country.

Silvia Return'd.

To Silvia, On deferring our Nuptials.

Silvia's Indifference.

Silvia Perjur'd.

Miscellanies.

On the new Edition of Godfrey of Bulloigne in 1687.

To Philip Ayres Esq; On his Poems and Translations, &c.

PROLOGUE, Design'd for my Play of the Rival Sisters.

EPITAPH, On Mrs. Jane Roderick.

EPITAPH, On Mrs. Mary Alexander, in Broad-Somerford Church.

Reflections on the Life and Death of a certain Miser.

Advice to a Friend in Distress.

To Julian Secretary to the Muses.

To a Friend in Wales, on his Neglect of writing to me.

To my Lord Chamberlain at Bath.

To Mr. Giles Frost.

To the much Honoured Gilbert Gerrard-Cosen Esq; on the Report of his being Dead.

In Answer to a Copy of Verses of Major Coleman's; whom I fail'd to meet according to Promise.

To Charles Duncomb Esq, On his Enlargement.

To my Lord of Dorset on his Installment.

To the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.

Occasional Verses To several Ladies, &c.

Advice to a fine young Lady.

To a Gentlewoman who had written many fine Things, and not seen Mrs. Phillips's Poems.

To Madam B. occasion'd by a Copy of Verses of my Lady Ann Baynton's.

To a very Vertuous Gentlewoman, on her being traduc'd, &c.

To Madam L.

To the Happy Mother.

To my Lady Long:

To my Lady Ann Baynton on the 28th of April, her Birth-Day.

To my Lady Abingdon.

To my Lady Peterborow on her saying she did not like Panegyrick.

EPISTLES From the Country.

To my Lord of Abingdon at his Country House.

To Mr. Knight from the Country.

To Mr. R. Trowe from the Country.

To the Reverend Mr. Francis Henery Cary, from the Country.

To Mr. Lowin, from the Country.

The DREAM.

HYMENEALS:

To my Lord Eland, on his Marriage and Return, &c.

To Sir Edward Nevil Baronet, On his Marriage.

To an unknown Relation; Hearing he was happily Married.

Of Adorissa's Second Marriage with Mr. Grevil.

To Dr. Harding and his Lady; Some time after their Marriage.

On my Lord of Dorset's Marriage with the Lady Mary Compton.

On my Lord of Abingdon's Marriage with the Lady Wenman.

To his Grace the Duke of Beaufort on his Marriage with the Lady Mary Sackville.

On the Marriage of Sir James Long Baronet, with the Honourable Madam Henrietta Greville.

LUCINIALS:

To the much Honour'd James Hunte of Popham, Esq; on the Birth of his Son and Heir.

To Henry Bayntun Esq; on the Birth of his Son and Heir.

To Mr. Mansell and his Lady, on the Birth of their Son and Heir.

Funeral Elegies.

To the Memory of Mr. John Oldham.

To the Memory of Edmund Waller, Esq.

On the Death of Mr. Dryden.

To Mr. Trowe, on the Death of Madam Goddard.

To Mr. Lawrence, on the Death of his Excellent Wife.

To the Memory of Mrs. Mary Peachley.

On the Death of Madam Pool's Son and Heir; Born Eight Months after his Fathers Decease.

To the Memory of that Worthy Gentleman Colonel Edward Cooke.

To the Honourable Colonel Henry Chiver, on the Death of Lionel Duckett, Esq

On the Death of the Famous Musick-Master Mr. Henry Purcell.

To my Lady Long, on the Death of Sir Giles Long Baronet, her Grandson.

To Sir James Long, Baronet.

To the Memory of Mr. James Margetts who died of the Small Pox in his Voyage to Pensilvania.

On the untimely Death of Mr. John Cary, Kill'd in a Duel.

On the Death of the much Honour'd Jame Hunte of Popham, Esq,

On the Death of that Worthy Gentleman Mr. John Cary, of Woodstock.

A Poem most humbly offer'd to the Memory of her late Sacred Majesty, Queen Mary.

An Historical Poem, most humbly offer'd to the Memory of his late Sacred Majesty, King William.

A Funeral Poem.

Funeral Eclogues.

Urania, a Funeral Eclogue.

Alcander, a Funeral Eclogue:

Mirana, a Funeral Eclogue:

Damon, a Funeral Eclogue:

Nicander and Thirsis; a Funeral Eclogue:

The Mourning Swain, a Funeral Eclogue.

The Mourning Swain, a Funeral Eclogue:

Thealma, a Funeral Eclogue:

Divine Poems AND PARAPHRASES.

A Contemplation touching Atheism.

Hymn for Christmas-Day.

Hymn for Easter-Day.

Hymn for Whit-sunday.

On Good Friday.

VOLUME the SECOND. [SATYRS].

PROLOGUE To the following SATYRS.

To the Right Honourable CHARLES,

LOVE given Over:

THE POETESS,

To Sr. Fleetwood Sheppard, &c.

A SATYR AGAINST WOOING:

THE STEP-MOTHER,

A Glance at Fanaticism;

Mother Clark's Ghost,

TO The Right Honourable CHARLES,

THE Corruption of the TIMES BY MONEY.

TO Fleetwood Sheppard Esq

To the Society of the Beaux Esprits.

To my Lord of Abingdon.

Sacred to the Memory of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second.

The Twelfth of June.

Mirtillo and Amynta:

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Despair.

In vain I write, in vain I strive to move
Her, whose stern Nature is averse to Love:
Ah cruel Nymph! Ah most regardless Fair!
Or wert thou born to give me endless Care?

'Tis said this Glorious Frame, and all above,
Those num'rous shining Lights that round us move,
Were rais'd from Chaos at one Word of Love.
Thro' the wide Wast blest Order swiftly flew,
And wild Confusion chang'd her grisly Hue;
By her own Offspring Discord was forsook,
And the glad Spheres their constant Motions took;
Wide as their Influence spreads, to either Pole,
In mystick Dance harmoniously they roll,
And with like sacred Union tune the Soul:
The Soul, for Beatifick Vision giv'n,
Breath'd from the Godhead, and its Centre Heav'n:
Both this and that on the same Axle move,
For Heav'n is Union, and the Soul is Love.
Love that does reach where ever Light extends,
And thither too a warmer Influence sends;
Nor when the Night arrives his happy Reign he ends.

From his Eternal Sway there's nothing free,
All the Creation own his Power—But Thee,
Thee Cupid flies, and Thou dost Cupid shun,
Thy Eyes, more Cruel, do the Work alone.
He wounds the Heart, but gives in Time Relief;
You to the very Soul transfuse the Grief:
No Help design, no Pity e'er intend,
Unless in poor Amyntor's speedy End.
Thy Eyes, those Beams of Heav'n if Love were there,
Are but to me a sad portentous Star,
Where in broad Characters I read—Despair!
Despair then, Wretch, nor longer strive to move
Her whose stern Nature is averse to Love.