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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.

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 in a MASQUE.

First MOVEMENT.

What Pangs we endure, and what Torments we prove,
When first we're enslav'd by the Passion of Love:
The Soul is with Fury possest,
All the Blood is on Fire,
While we flame with Desire,
And we carry our Hell in our Breast.

Second MOVEMENT.

Thro' all the Universe it rules,
And makes the whole Creation Fools:
An Epidemick Plague 'tis grown;
Love singly contains
All Tortures, and Pains,
Love, Love is all Torments in One.

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Third MOVEMENT.

To the Wheel of Ixion poor Lovers are bound,
And are ever, for ever, for ever turn'd round:
They in a giddy Circle move,
And still in Pursuit, still are snatch'd from their Love.

Fourth MOVEMENT.

Beauty deludes, and we assist the Cheat:
It is a Vis'onary Treat
That tempts us with a thousand Charms;
But when we think to clasp the Joy,
The treach'rous Phantom slips away,
And leaves us to repent with empty Arms.

CHORUS.

Yet, Love, thou bear'st such Charms about thee,
Nor Men, nor Gods can live without thee,

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Tho' wounded, we seek for no Cure;
But proud of our Chains,
W' enjoy all the Pains,
And our Pleasure's the greater, the more we endure.