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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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VERSES TO A Gentleman who was charm'd with OPHELIA's Person.

'Tis true, she's fair and lovely to the view—
What more cou'd rival Art and Nature do?
I wonder not, you're conquer'd by her Charms,
And covet my Elysium in her Arms—
But did you see her Beauties with my Eyes,
Were but your Love like mine, with what Surprize,
What warm Desires you'd gaze away your Pow'rs,
And think the World well lost to have her Yours.
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Fancy, my Friend, in Love Affairs prevails:
Beauties are made by it, when Nature fails.
The Fair looks fairer, that our Fancy strikes,
And Charms o'er spread the Ugly, whom it likes.
Were my Ophelia hateful to the Sight,
Approv'd by Fancy, she'd be all Delight.
But I nor to the Eye, nor Fancy, yield—
Victorious Vertues bear me from the Field.
Judgment and Reason, Governors of Life,
Determin'd me to make Ophelia Wife.
They shew'd me first the Beauties of her Mind,
Beauties! whose least adds Grace to Womankind;
These, these, my Friend, are lasting as the Soul,
That Time and Trouble never can controul:
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Tho' all her Roses, and her Lillies, fade,
Tho' Flesh decay, and Life were turn'd to Shade,
The noble, hidden, Riches wou'd endure,
Furnish fresh Charms, and fix my Love secure.
Had you, my Friend, a Perspective so clear,
And cou'd you thus behold my darling Fair,
How soon you'd quit the Prospect of her Face,
And, with new Wonder, on her Vertues gaze!
Vertues! that wou'd constrain you to confess,
That I had Cause to court this Happiness:
And teach you Skill among her Sex to find
An Object fair, made fairer by her Mind.
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