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A Miscellany of Poems

consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary

Relph, Josiah (1712-1743)

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HARVEST; OR THE BASHFUL SHEPHERD.

In Imitation of PSALM CXXXI.

HAY TIME; OR THE CONSTANT LOVERS.

In Imitation of Horace. B. 4. Ode 10.

A Burlesque Epistle to Mr.---

To D---n, S---t,

A Burlesque Epistle to Mr J---n C---r

Wrote with a Pebble on a rock at Corby-castle;

The BATTLE of the GIANTS.

An Epistle to Mr.---on his return from G---w C---e;

To the Reverend------on his visiting a sick Person, 1729.

To the Printer of the Kendal Courant.

THE DESPAIRING SHEPHERD.

DAMON and CHLOE.

From the GREEK.

To a Lady after losing at Whisk.

On a Wrangling Couple.

ADVICE to STREPHON.

EPISTLE to Mr. C---r at P---th.

To the LADIES. On the Recantation in the Kendal Courant.

Horace imitated. Ode 27. Book I.

The 19th Idyllium of Theocritus

From the Delec Epigram.

ARRIA and PÆTUS.

The 8th Ode of Book I. of Horace

Over a Glass of Birch-Wine.

To Captain C---y at Carlisle.

Horace, Ode ii Book I. imitated.

To--- D---n Esq;.

To Mr. Green, under a Decay, and debar'd by his Doctors from drinking.

A Brand New BALLAT.

On the fine Gardens at Corby.

The Favourite Fountain:

Occasion'd by a little Miss's bursting out into tears upon reading the Ballad of the Babes in the Wood.

The Story of PYRAMUS and THISBE

The POET's PETITION.

St. AGNES FAST; or the AMOROUS MAIDEN.

To a young Lady learning Arithmetick.

EPITAPH on PARIS.

De PAULO CANENTE Balthasaris Castilionis Mantuani POEMA.

On the Death of Amyntas.

Sir THOMAS MORE.

An EPISTLE to Mr.---at Oxford.

Another EPISTLE to the same.

Horace Book III. Ode 21. translated.

To the Rev.Mr.C---r, on his voyage to Dublin.

ELIZA at CHURCH.

To the Rev. Mr.---

Occasion'd by the Death of a young Girl.

HORACE Book II. Ode 7.

The Boy and the Birds.

The Sparrows and the Robin.

The Snails and the Fruit.

The Goose and the Hen.

The Sluggard and the Sun.

The Petted Nag.

The Boy and the Sparrows.

The Husbandman and the Horse.

Translated from Seneca.

The too free Nag.

Wrote after reading PAMELA,

The WORM-DOCTOR.

The HOUR-GLASS.

TRUE HAPPINESS.

From NICOLAUS FABER.

PYTHAGORAS'S GOLDEN VERSES.

On the Storms at Sea, and the KING's safe Arrival in Britain.

To Mr. C---r in Love.

SENECA, an Exile in Corsica.

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Horace, Ode ii Book I. imitated.

I

Prr'ythee Damon don't molest
With futurity thy breast;
Has not present Life enow
Cares and toils to struggle thro'?

II

Fortune-tellers never mind;
Fortune-tellers all are blind:
Or suppose they cou'd foresee,
Pray what better wou'd one be.

III

If great blessings must ensue,
Life is dull and tedious now:
And if troubles must befall,
Present joys are worthless all.

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IV

Lay those anxious thoughts aside,
Take now what the Gods provide
Now, for trust me, tho' not dumb,
There's no trusting what's to come.