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The poems of John Wilmot: Earl of Rochester

Edited by Keith Walker
Rochester, John Wilmot (1647-1680)

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JUVENILIA
 
To His Sacred Majesty.
 
To Her Sacred Majesty the Queen Mother
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LOVE POEMS
 
A Pastoral Dialogue BETWEEN ALEXIS and STREPHON.
 
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN Strephon and Daphne.
 
The Discovery.
 
The Advice.
 
[[Could I but make my wishes insolent]]
 
The submission.
 
Grecian KINDNESS.
 
To Corinna.
 
Song.
 
The Answer.
 
Song
 
[[Another version] ]
 
Womans Honor.
 
The Platonick Lady
 
Verses put into a Lady's Prayer-book.
 
Song.
 
[[Leave this gawdy guilded Stage]]
 
Sab: Lost
 
The Fall.
 
[[T'was a dispute]]
 
A SONG.
 
A SONG.
 
The MISTRESS.
 
The Imperfect Enjoyment.
 
A SONG of a young LADY. To her Ancient Lover.
 
Song
 
SONG
 
SONG
 
Song.
 
Upon his leaving his Mistriss.
 
Upon his Drinking a Bowl.
 
A SONG.
 
Song.
 
[[Another version of the above] ]
 
To A Lady, in A Letter.
 
Against Constancy.
 
Song.
 
Love and Life
 
On Mistress Willis
 
Song.
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TRANSLATIONS
 
To Love.
 
[[Greate Mother of Eneas and of Love]]
 
[[Lucretius, De rerum natura, 1. 44–9]]
 
Senecas Troas Act 2d Chor
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PROLOGUES and EPILOGUES
 
The second Prologue at Court, [to The empress of Morocco] spoken by the Lady ELIZABETH HOWARD.
 
EPILOGUE, [to Love in the dark] As it was spoke by Mr. Haines.
 
THE EPILOGUE [to Circe]
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SATIRES and LAMPOONS
 
Mistress Knights Advice to the Dutchess of Cleavland in Distress For A Prick.
 
[[Letter from Mistress Price to Lord Chesterfield]]
 
Upon Nothing
 
A Ramble in Saint James's Parke
 
Lampoone
 
Tunbridge Wells
 
[[A Satire on Charles II]]
 
Signior Dildo.
 
Satyr. [Timon]
 
A Letter from Artemiza in the Towne to Chloe in the Countrey.
 
[[Fragment of a Satire on Men]]
 
SATYR.
 
The Disabled Debauchee.
 
An Allusion to Horace.
 
Dialogue.
 
To the Post Boy
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POEMS to MULGRAVE and SCROOPE
 
An Epistolary Essay
 
Song. [by Sir Carr Scroope]
 
The Mock Song.
 
Ephelia to Bajazet. [by Sir George Etherege]
 
A very Heroicall Epistle in Answer to Ephelia.
 
On the suppos'd Authour of a late Poem in defence of Satyr.
 
The Answer. [by Sir Carr Scroope]
 
On Poet Ninny.
 
My Lord All-Pride.
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EPIGRAMS, IMPROMPTUS, JEUX D'ESPRIT, ETC.
 
To his more than Meritorious Wife
 
Under King Charles IIs Picture
 
[[On Louis XIV]]
 
[[Epigram] ]
 
[[Rhime to Lisbone]]
 
[[On King Charles]]
 
Rochester extempore
 
Spoken Extempore to a Country Clerk, after having heard him sing Psalms.
 
[[To forme a Plott]]
 
A Lampoon upon the English Grandees.
 
Upon Cary Frazer
 
The Earl of ROCHESTER's Answer, to a Paper of Verses, sent him by L. B. Felton, and taken out of the Translation of Ovid's Epistles, 1680.
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POEMS POSSIBLY BY ROCHESTER
 
Anacreontic.
 
On Rome's Pardons.
 
To His MISTRESS.
 
Regime d'viver
 
Against Marriage
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APPENDIX I
 
A Session of the Poets.
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APPENDIX II
 
In defence of Satyr. [by Sir Carr Scroope]

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To Corinna.

A SONG.

1

What Cruel pains Corinna takes,
To force that harmless frown:
When not one Charm her Face forsakes,
Love cannot lose his own.

2

So sweet a Face, so soft a Heart,
Such Eyes so very kind,
Betray, alas! the silly Art
Virtue had ill design'd.

3

Poor feeble Tyrant! who in vain
Would proudly take upon her,
Against kind Nature to maintain
Affected Rules of Honour.

4

The Scorn she bears so helpless proves,
When I plead Passion to her,
That much she fears, (but more she loves,)
Her Vassal should undo her.
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