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Poems upon several Occasions

By Mr. Smith

(1662-1717)

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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.

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.

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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Cupid Confin'd.

I

The winged Boy, in wanton Flight
Descending from his airy Height,
Into Panthea's Bosom fled,
And made the Downy Nest his Bed.

II

Her softer Bosom gently rose,
Seeming to court Him to Repose;
Nestling He folds his Wings to creep
Between her Breasts,—then falls asleep.

III

Pleas'd, and transported with the Joy,
She smil'd at the deluded Boy,

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While busy Thoughts, and Hands prepare
Close to confine the Wand'rer there.

IV

She takes a various-colour'd Braid
Of Scarlet, Gold, and Purple made;
And ah! hard-hearted, cruel She
Pinion'd the little Deity.

V

But when surpriz'd He wak'd, and found
His Limbs in Silken Fetters bound,
He sighing pray'd the Fair wou'd please
To grant her Captive a Release.

VI

Fair Youth (says She) wou'd you begon,
Your warm Apartment leave so soon?

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No, gentle Boy, you must discharge
Your Lodgings, to be set at large.

VII

Then, for a Bribe to let me go,
Here take my Quiver—take my Bow;—
Nor can I greater Triumphs boast,
Than that my Arms to You were lost.

VIII

Now, proudly waving in her Hand
Those Ensigns of her new Command,
She freed the God;—who now complains
That He's refus'd to wear her Chains.

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And now those Shafts are his no more,
His Bow's no longer in his Pow'r;

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Panthea now alone commands Love's Darts,
Alone She charms all Eyes, alone She wounds all Hearts.