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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.

THE WALK.

In Imitation of PSALM CXXXI.

TEA.

HAY TIME; OR THE CONSTANT LOVERS.

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

A Burlesque Epistle to Mr.---

LUBRICILLA.

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.

EPIGRAM.

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.

To a Lady after losing at Whisk.

SONG.

On a Wrangling Couple.

From CATULLUS.

ADVICE to STREPHON.

SONG.

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

EPIGRAM.

SONG.

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

EPIGRAM.

Horace imitated. Ode 27. Book I.

ORINDA.

DAMON.

The 19th Idyllium of Theocritus

EPIGRAM.

From the Delec Epigram.

The 8th Ode of Book I. of Horace

Over a Glass of Birch-Wine.

To Captain C---y at Carlisle.

SONG.

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

EPIGRAM.

The POET's PETITION.

The GRASHOPPER

St. AGNES FAST; or the AMOROUS MAIDEN.

To a young Lady learning Arithmetick.

From ANACREON.

EPITAPH on PARIS.

SONG.

De PAULO CANENTE Balthasaris Castilionis Mantuani POEMA.

EPIGRAM.

From Martial.

EPIGRAM.

On the Death of Amyntas.

ACERRA.

SONG.

To GAURUS.

Sir THOMAS MORE.

An EPISTLE to Mr.---at Oxford.

Another EPISTLE to the same.

To ZOILUS.

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.

CELIA SINGING.

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,

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.

SONG.

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SONG.

I

Come, Pandora, come away,
Who can brook such dull delay;
Come and glad my longing eye;
Could I now Pandora spy!
Envious hill, ô why wilt thou
Intercept a Lover's view!
Haste Pandora haste away
Every minute seems a day.

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II

Once lov'd plains no longer please,
There's no pleasure, but where she's,
I'd with her to town resort,
I'd with her endure a court;
Wilds are gardens with my Dear,
All's a wild, if she's not there.
Haste Pandora haste away
Ev'ry minute seems a day.

III

See she comes—ye Swains prepare
To entertain the lovely Fair;
Let blyth jokes and rustic rhyme,
Songs and dances cheat the time,
All your gambols, all be play'd
To divert the charming maid;
May her hours unheeded flow,
And the clock ne'er seem too slow.

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IV

See she comes—ye maidens haste,
Sweep the hearth, nay do it fast;
Mind that nought offend the sight,
Be the table wondrous bright;
Rub the cup-board, rub it clean
'Till your shadow's to be seen;
Let clean pinners grace each head,
Each her lilly apron spread.

V

Now she's near—I burn, I glow,
Short my breath, my voice grows low!
Thus the lark with chearful lay
Hails th' approaching God of day,
But when nearer he displays
Brighter beams and warmer rays;
Then her little bosom heaves,
And it's gentle warbling leaves.