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Marinda

Poems and Translations upon Several Occasions [by Mary Monck]
Monck, Mary (ca. 1677-1715)
  
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POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS UPON Several Occasions.
  
Runaway Love.
  
A Tale sent by a Friend.
  
ECLOGUE.
  
Answer to the foregoing ECLOGUE.
  
Masque of the Virtues against Love.
  
Sonetto of Abbate Salvini's, sent from Italy on occasion of the foregoing Translation. Done into English by a Friend.
  
Human Frailty.
  
On Providence.
  
CANZONE.
  
On the Invention of Letters.
  
Masque of Country Lasses.
  
The timerous Lover.
  
A Translation of part of the Fifth Scene of the Second Act of Pastor Fido.
  
A Pastoral Dialogue from the Spanish.
  
On a Lady's Statue in Marble.
  
The same in Burlesque.
  
To Marinda leading up the Masque of the Virtues: On her Translation from Guarini. P. 23.
  
An Epigram on the same Subject.
  
Sonetto.
  
Madrigal.
  
An Elegie on a Favourite Dog.
  
Sonetto.
  
Sonetto.
  
Canzone.
  
An Epistle to Marinda.
  
Sonetto from Monsignor Della Casa.
  
Another of Casa's on a Picture.
  
Sonetto from Marini.
  
An Ode on the Queen's Birth-day.
  
SONG.
  
Upon an Impromptu of Marinda's, in Answer to a Copy of Verses.
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Canzone of Monsignior della Casa.
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From Tasso's Jerusalem. lib. 16.
  
A TALE.
  
To Marinda.
  
On Marinda's Toilette.
  
A Dialogue between Lucinda and Strephon, on a Butter-Fly that reviv'd before the Fire, and afterwards flew in to it and was burnt.
  
To Marinda. A Puerperium.
  
Core in Augello
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EPIGRAMS.
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I. To Cloe.
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Epigram II. To Sylvia reading St. Bernard's Life.
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Epigram III.
  
A Dialogue between Phillis and Strephon.
  
Wrote the last Day of the Year. To Marinda.
  
On Sight of the Present Empress.
  
To a Friend of Marinda's that did not enough admire the Empress.
  
Translation of a Sonetto of Dr. Salvini's.
  
Upon a noble Venetian Lady.
  
On a Romantick Lady.
  
[As Corydon went shiv'ring by]
  
An Epitaph on a Gallant Lady.
  
The Butterfly.
  
ANACREONTIC.
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A Madrigal in imitation of the Italian.
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Madrigal II.
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Madrigal III.
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A Madrigal from Guarini. IV.
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Madrigal V.
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Madrigal VI.
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Madrigal VII.
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Madrigal VIII.
  
A Translation from Tasso. Gierusalemme liberata.
  
Romanez de Quevedo.
  
MOCCOLI. A POEM.

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The Butterfly.

To please a giddy Girl, my Amorous Heart
Assumes new Forms, and varies Proteus' Part.
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Her wav'ring Humour in each Shape to try,
'Tis now at last become a Butterfly:
Wing'd by the radiant Glories of her Eyes
In wanton Circles to its Ruin flies;
While flutt'ring round and round the dazling light,
It plyes and hovers near those Rays too bright,
Nor e'er the simple dang'rous Sport gives o'er,
Till first its Wings, then Life, the Flames devour.
O happy Insect! bless thy Fate; Expire,
To rise a Phœnix from so sweet a Fire.
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