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Poems on several occasions

By Stephen Duck
Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)
  
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Upon Her MAJESTY's Bounty to the Thresher.
  
To Stephen Duck: Occasion'd by his Poem on Friendship.
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POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
  
To a Gentleman, who requested a Copy of Verses from the Author.
  
On POVERTY.
  
The THRESHER's Labour.
  
The SHUNAMMITE.
  
GRATITUDE.
  
A PASTORAL ELEGY.
  
On a Good Conscience.
  
On MUSIC.
  
On Richmond Park, and Royal Gardens.
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AVARO and AMANDA.
 I. 
Canto I.
 II. 
Canto II.
 III. 
Canto III.
 IV. 
Canto IV.
  
To a Young Lady, who had a Cupid given Her.
  
On the Hon. Mrs. Horner's Travelling for the Recovery of her Health.
  
The Absent Lover.
  
On a Screen, work'd in Flowers by Her Royal Highness ANNE, Princess of ORANGE.
  
To His Royal Highness The Duke of CUMBERLAND, On His Birth-Day.
  
To DEATH.
  
On Mrs. L---s.
  
TRUTH and FALSHOOD.
  
Proper Ingredients to make a Sceptic.
  
On Two Young Ladies leaving the Country.
  
On MITES.
  
Chloe's CONQUEST.
  
Occasion'd by a Dispute with a Lady.
  
To Mr. Worsdale: Occasion'd by seeing Celia's Picture unfinish'd.
  
On the Queen's Grotto, in Richmond Gardens.
  
To the Author of a Poem on the Duke of Lorrain's Arrival at the British Court.
  
On Florella's Birth-Day.
  
To the Rev. Dr. Freind, on his quitting Westminster School.
  
On Celia's Picture, drawn by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
  
On the Marriage of his Serene Highness the Prince of Orange.
  
VERSES to the Author, In Imitation of HORACE's Ode on PINDAR.
  
The ANSWER.
  
On Delia singing, and playing on Music.
  
To the Right Honourable William Clayton, Esq; (now Lord Sundon) on his being Elected Representative in Parliament for Westminster without Opposition.
  
To Mr. Winder, (now Fellow) of Corpus-Christi, Oxford; in Answer to a Latin Epistle, which he sent me.
  
A Description of a Journey To Marlborough, Bath, Portsmouth, &c.
  
PENELOPE to ULYSSES.
  
An EPIGRAM.
  
A Poem on Her Majesty's Birth-Day.
  
FELIX and CONSTANCE.
  
Ad JOANNEM MILTONUM.
  
An Imitation of the Tenth Ode of the Second Book of Horace.
  
An IMITATION Of the Sixteenth Ode Of the Second Book of HORACE.
  
An Imitation of the Sixteenth Ode of the Third Book of Horace.
  
Imitated from Claudian.
  
Of FRIENDSHIP.
  
An Ode, presented to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, in Richmond Gardens, on Thursday, May 6. 1736.

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On a Good Conscience.

The solid Joys of human Kind
Are those that flow from Peace of Mind;
For who the Sweets of Life can taste,
With Vice, and tim'rous Guilt, opprest?
'Tis Virtue softens all our Toils,
With Peace our Conscience crowns;
Gives Pleasure, when our Fortune smiles,
And Courage, when it frowns;
Calms ev'ry Trouble, makes the Soul serene,
Smooths the contracted Brow, and chears the Heart within.
While guilty Minds, involv'd with Woe,
Anticipate the future Blow;
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Which is (to make Damnation more complete)
The lesser Hell, in Passage to the great;
Bold and intrepid honest Men appear;
For, as they know no Evil, none they fear:
A glorious Shield of Virtue guards their Breast;
Arm'd with themselves, they always walk at Rest.
Thus, under bursting Clouds, and stormy Skies,
When Thunder roars, and Lightning flies,
Th'Imperial Eagles boldly rove,
Nor dread the firy Bolt of Jove;
While meaner Birds in secret creep below;
And trembling fear, and often feel, the Blow.
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