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

I.

Return, Unhappy Prince, return;
O tempt not thy unwilling Fate!
Nor let the fair OEnone mourn,
Who loves so well, but ill deserves thy Hate:
Trust not the Wind, the faithless Wind, and Sea,
As Thou to Her, so they'll prove false to Thee.

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II.

The beauteous Freight thy Navy shall bring Home
Will soon deceive thy promis'd Joy,
For with Confed'rate Arms all Greece shall come
Thy Father Priam's Kingdoms to destroy.
Trust not the Winds, &c.

III.

In vain, exceedingly in vain
Shalt thou with Perfumes scent thy Hair,
While to thy Lute thou sing'st some am'rous Strain;
And Voice, and Hand conspire to charm the Fair:
Successless here thy gentlest Airs will sound,
In the shrill Trumpet's louder Clangors drown'd.

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IV.

Pallas enrag'd does now prepare
Her Breast-Plate, Crested Helm, and Shield,
And in the horrid Pomp of War
Rattles her Chariot o're the dusty Field;
And, e're Ten rolling Years expire,
Troy's Sacred Walls shall flame in Grecian Fire.