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Poems on Several Occasions

In Two Volumes. By Mr. Joseph Mitchell
(1684-1738)

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VOL. I.
  
[dedication]
  
THE Muse's Original:
  
AN ODE ON THE Power of Musick.
  
AN ODE, ON BUCHANAN.
  
THE Charms of Indolence.
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THE CUDGEL:
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CANTO I.
  
THE JUDGMENT OF HERCULES.
  
JONAH,
  
Psalm the 139th.
  
Isaiah, Chapter 13.
  
A Familiar Epistle, TO Major Richardson Pack,
  
THE DOLEFUL SWAINS:
  
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE MUSE.
  
To the Right Honourable JAMES CRAGGS, Esq;
  
AN ODE On receiving a Wreath of Bays from OPHELIA.
  
On OPHELIA.
  
To OPHELIA, With the Power of Beauty.
  
THE POWER of BEAUTY.
  
ON A FLY,
  
To a young Lady,
  
THE KISS:
  
To a Singing Bird.
  
A Memorial to Virtue, Unfinished.
  
An ODE,
  
To the Right Honourable CHARLES, Earl of Lauderdale, &c.
  
TO Mr. Allan Ramsay.
  
A HYMN TO THE MUSES.
  
TO Mr. M---
  
TO Mr. M---l.
  
To His Grace JOHN, Duke of Argyle and Greenwich.
  
VERSES,
  
AN EPITAPH ON A GLUTTON.
  
To an Humourist, who married a most ugly super annuated Maid.
  
TO Aaron Hill, Esq
  
TO Sir Richard Steel.
  
A POETICAL DREAM,
  
To the Right Honourable John Earl of Stair,
  
MITCHELL, Solus,
  
To the Right Honourable John Earl of Stair.
  
THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
  
To the Right Honourable John Earl of Stair,
  
An ANACREONTIQUE, To the Right Honourable John Earl of Stair:
  
TO Dr. Arbuthnot,
  
BOLD COUNSEL,
  
VERSES To the Right Honourable the Lady Sommerville,
  
VERSES Occasion'd by the Death of The Right Honourable the Countess of Grantham.
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PETER:
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CANTO I.
  
EPITAPH For the Tomb of an Infant, miscarried before it had received the Breath of Life.
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VOL. II.
  
[dedication]
  
Congratulatory Verses To His Excellency Joseph Mitchell, Esq;
  
THE SINE-CURE: A Poetical PETITION To the Right Honourable ROBERT WALPOLE, Esq;
  
THE EQUIVALENT:
  
THE PROMOTION:
  
THE ALTERNATIVE:
  
THE MEMORIAL:
  
AN ODE To the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT WALPOLE, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath;
  
THE SUBSCRIPTION:
  
TO THE Right Honourable The Lord Viscount KILLMOREY.
  
THE SHOE-HEEL:
  
EPILOGUE TO THE Spanish Fryar.
  
POLTIS, King of Thrace;
  
A Lilliputian ODE ON CLARA's Dog.
  
THE Vicar and Waggoner.
  
Miss Charlote at Church.
  
THE TOTNESS ADDRESS, VERSIFIED.
  
EPITAPH ON ROGER SIZER,
  
EPITAPH ON Madam MARIA JANE,
  
AN ODE
  
RATHO;
  
To their Most Excellent MAJESTIES,
  
An ANSWER.
  
AN ANACREONTIC TO THE Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield,
  
A Picture of HYMEN, OR Matrimony A-la-mode:
  
VERSES To the Memory of JOHN CLARK, Esq
  
OF Seigniora CUZZONI's VOICE and FACE.
  
TO Seigniora Cuzzoni.
  
[Ye Commons and Peers]
  
TO A LADY, playing with a Clouded Fan.
  
TO A Pyrating POET.
  
TO S---h F---k.
  
SYLVIA's MOAN.
  
CORYDON's Complaint.
  
THE MONKEY.
  
A SONG.
  
AN ODE ON Mr. W---r's Birth-Day, July 14.
  
TO Sir RICHARD STEELE;
  
VERSES ON THE DEATH of Mr. S---.
  
THE RECANTATION.
  
VERSES TO A Gentleman who was charm'd with OPHELIA's Person.
  
TO OPHELIA,
  
THE REVENGE, TO MARIANA.
  
Two Questions answer'd by Two Ladies at a Ball, Versified.
  
TO Mr. THOMSON, The Author of WINTER.
  
A Sunday EPISTLE TO CREW OFFLY, Esq;
  
TO Mr. A--- D---,
  
TO THE Right Honourable ---
  
VERSES ON A Friend's MARRIAGE.
  
TO A Right Honourable Grumbletonian.
  
EPITAPH
  
CATHOLICK BRASS; OR, THE Power of Impudence:
  
ET CÆTERA.
  
THE PATRIOT.
  
TO LUCINDA.
  
STANZA's (Publish'd in the Daily Journal.) On Reading the DUNCIAD.
  
To the Author of STANZA's, On Reading the DUNCIAD.
  
ON CLARISSA.
  
ON CLARISSA.
  
Political POETRY.
  
A PICTURE Of the RISE and FALL of a STATESMAN.
  
A DIALOGUE Between the Right Honourable A. and B.
  
A Monumental ODE, To the Virtuous Memory of Dr. Walsh of Worcestershire
  
A SONG.
  
To the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT WALPOLE,
  
THE Battle of Otterburn.
  
THE TINKER.
  
A SONG TO CELIA.
  
Poetick FAITH.
  
[Judgment, and Virtue bear my soaring Wing]

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A SONG.

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Leave Kindred and Friends, sweet Lady,
Leave Kindred, and Friends, for me,
Assur'd, thy Servant is steddy
To Love, to Honour, and Thee.
The Gifts of Nature, and Fortune,
May fly, by Chance, as they came!
They are Grounds the Destinies sport on,
But Virtue is ever the same.

II

Altho' my Fancy were roving,
Thy Charms so heav'nly appear,
That other Beauties disproving,
I'd worship thine only, my Dear.
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And, shou'd Life's Sorrows embitter
The Pleasure we promise our Loves,
To share them, together, is fitter,
Than moan, asunder, like Doves.

III

Oh! were I but once so blessed,
To grasp my Love in my Arms!
By Thee, to be grasp'd! and kissed!
And live on thy Heaven of Charms!
I'd laugh at Fortune's Caprices,
Shou'd Fortune capricious prove:
Tho' Death shou'd tear me to Pieces,
I'd die a Martyr to Love.
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