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Poems upon several Occasions

By Mr. Smith
(1662-1717)
 
[dedication]

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To Mr. PACKER:
 
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.
 
The Ingrate.
 
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.
 
TEARS.
 
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.
 
SONG.
 
To the Ladies.
 
THE Eleventh ELEGY Of the Third BOOK of Ovid 's AMOURS imitated.
 
SONG.
 
The FABLE OF The Fox and the Cock.
 
The LOAN.
 
To Mr. RUSSELL,
 
ODE In Praise of BEAUTY.
 
A Persian Hymn to the Sun.
 
Dialogue between a LOVER AND His MISTRESS.
 
THE Oxford Expedition.
 
DRINKING.
 
The ROSES.
 
SONG.
 
Epistle to a FRIEND.
 
THE PRECAUTION. In Irregular STANZA'S.
 
SONG.
 
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 OLD MAN.
 
The Burning LOVER.
 
An ELEGY
 
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.
 
SONG.
 
The Disputing Pedant. AN Extempore Whim in a Tavern.
 
The MISTRESS:
 
On the Same.
 
The VISIT.
 
The MARK. ANACREONTICK.
 
The MISTAKE.
 
A DIALOGUE Between a Satyr and a Young Nymph.
 
The Heart Sent.
 
The DREAM.
 
An EPISTLE.
 
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.
 
SONG.
 
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.
 
To CHLOE.
 
The 17th Elegy of the Second Book OF Ovid's AMOURS imitated.
 
To a Jilting Mistress.
 
The WOUND.
 
Made over a Punch-Bowl.
 
THE Miller's TALE. FROM Geoffrey Chaucer.
 
SONG.
 
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.

[Forbear, fond God, forbear your Dart]

I

Forbear, fond God, forbear your Dart,
Seek not to wound a Dying Heart;
At Chloe's Feet it gasping lies,
A bleeding Victim to Her Conqu'ring Eyes.
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II

From Her, Death's such a pleasing Pain,
I wish to Live, to Dye again:
With Joy to him the Blow is giv'n,
That has so near a Prospect of his Heav'n.

III

You, and the little Loves all fly
To light their Torches at Her Eye.
By Her alone Love's Empires thrive,
This Vestal keeps Love's Sacred Fire alive.

IV

Then, Chloe, 'tis not strange that You
Weak Mortals yielding Hearts subdue,
Since You another Venus prove,
And give New Being to the God of Love.
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