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Poems upon several Occasions

By Mr. Smith

(1662-1717)

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On a Lady's Needle.

To the Honourable The Lady MARY BERTIE, OCCASION'D By Her Immoderate Grief for the Death of Her Brother.

A Solitary Canto To CHLORIS the Disdainful.

A Cannibal's Love-Song.

ON The Shortness of Life, AND The Miseries that attend it.

The Force of WINE:

The Artless Beauty.

The Swallow. ANACREONTICK.

Epistle to Sir R. E.

To His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, Upon His Happy Marriage TO THE Lady Mary Osborn.

Prologue to the FOX: Spoken by Mr. WILKS TO THE University of Oxford.

Begging a Kiss.

THE Eleventh ELEGY Of the Third BOOK of Ovid 's AMOURS imitated.

The FABLE OF The Fox and the Cock.

To Mr. RUSSELL,

ODE In Praise of BEAUTY.

A Persian Hymn to the Sun.

Dialogue between a LOVER AND His MISTRESS.

THE Oxford Expedition.

Epistle to a FRIEND.

THE PRECAUTION. In Irregular STANZA'S.

SONG.

The FABLE OF THE DOCTOR, AND Patient with Sore Eyes.

TO A Gentleman slightly Wounded BY A Fair LADY.

From the XVIth ODE of the Second Book of Horace.

An EPITAPH ON THE Divine Mr. BUTLER, THE Incomparable Author of Hudibras.

Upon a FLOWER IN A LADY's Bosom.

Invocation to the Lobster:

A RHAPSODY UPON A LOBSTER. POEM Burlesque.

The CONFESSION.

The Burning LOVER.

SONG in a MASQUE.

The WEDDING-RING,

An EPILOGUE FOR Mr. PENKETHMAN TO THE University of Oxford.

Imitated from the 12th Elegy of the Second Book of Propertius.

TO A Young LADY Singing, AND Playing upon Her Spinet.

The Disputing Pedant. AN Extempore Whim in a Tavern.

The MARK. ANACREONTICK.

A DIALOGUE Between a Satyr and a Young Nymph.

The Heart Sent.

TO Mr. R. C. and His LADY, ON THE Birth of Their First Child; Born in the SPRING.

Kissing a Young LADY.

Worcester Dumb Bells.

Cupid Confin'd.

Partly imitated from the XVth Ode of the First Book of Horace.

The Irresistible BEAUTY.

A DIALOGUE Between A Gypsie Boy, and a Girl.

Cupid's Banishment.

SONG at a BALL.

The 17th Elegy of the Second Book OF Ovid's AMOURS imitated.

To a Jilting Mistress.

Made over a Punch-Bowl.

THE Miller's TALE. FROM Geoffrey Chaucer.

Imitated from a Little Book, Entitl'd, POETÆ Rusticantis Literatum Otium.

Hersilia chang'd into the Goddess ORA.

Advice to the Philosophers.

The British Heroes:

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SONG.

[How Great is the Monarch! how Pow'rful his Sway!]

I

How Great is the Monarch! how Pow'rful his Sway!
When He nods, the Earth trembles, and Mankind obey.
If his Frowns urge to Discord, no Friendship holds good,
Weak Nature starts back, and recoils in the Blood;
On his Brow sits Destruction, Fate waits on his Breath,
By his Smiles his Slaves live, but his Anger is Death.

CHORUS.

All Empire belongs to Great Cæsar, and Jove;
The King rules Below, and the God reigns Above.

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II

If enrag'd by Affronts to rough Wars he incline,
To revenge his Dishonour whole Nations combine;
In Thunder He marches, the Globe He alarms,
Thro' Mountains He breaks by the Force of his Arms;
Our Blood paints his Triumphs; and Victors we bring
All the Trophies of War, and present to our King.

Cho.

All Empire belongs, &c.

III

Attended by Pleasures He sits on his Throne,
And, when Slumbers invite, he reposes on Down.
The Guards that around Him their Watch nightly keep,
Are fatigu'd while He rests, kept awake by his Sleep:

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Fierce Armies with Fear his Displeasure behold,
They are Slaves to his Passion, when brib'd by his Gold.

CHORUS.

All Empire belongs to Great Cæsar, and Jove;
The King rules Below, and the God reigns Above.