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Poems on Several Occasions

With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. By Mrs. Elizabeth Tollet. The Second Edition

Tollet, Elizabeth (1694-1754)

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APOLLO and DAPHNE,

Imitation of Horace, Lib. II. Ode 10.

Claudian's Old Man of Verona.

Translation of Horace, Lib. I. Ode 23.

Imitation of Horace, Lib. IV. Ode 7.

Imitation of Horace, Lib. II. Ode 3.

The Complaint of Damon.

On Mr. Congreve's Plays and Poems.

Ecce Homo. An Ode.

To a young Lady.

To my Brother at St. John's College in Cambridge.

Written in a Book of Novels.

To a Gentleman in Love.

To Mrs. Elizabeth Blackler, playing on the Harpsichord.

On an unknown generous Person.

Written by Lady Jane Grey, when Prisoner in the Tower, with her Pin on her Chamber Wall.

On a Lady of Quality, saying Spenser wrote broad Scotch.

Buchananus ad Neæram.

Mary, Queen of Scots, Farewel to Buxton.

My own EPITAPH.

On loving once and loving often.

Against Chance and Fate.

In Memory of the Countess of Winchelsea.

To a Lady lending me Heliodorus just before her Marriage.

Paraphrase on Agur's Wish.

Paraphrase on the Nicene Creed.

On Mr. Pope's Homer.

Par Nobile Fratrum.

The Triumvirate of Poets.

The Praise of Astronomy, from the first Book of Ovid's Fasti.

On a Death's Head.

From Owen's Epigrams.

On a POEM of the Right Honourable Lady M. W. M. in Mr. Hammond's Miscellany.

Occasioned by a Passage in Tully de Senectute, relating to the Immortality of the Soul.

The Destruction of BABYLON.

Hymn to the Paraclete.

From Job, Chap. XXVI. v. 7.

Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII.

The MICROCOSM, asserting the Dignity of Man.

The three Children in the fiery Furnace.

On Lady Bridgwater's Picture,

On the Thunder-Storm, June 1726.

The Lord's Prayer.

Horace to Leuconoe.

Pars minima est ipsa puella sui.

Imitation of Horace, Lib. II. Ode 15.

The Coquette and Prude.

From Owen's Epigrams.

On the Death of Sir Isaac Newton.

To Dr. JAMES SHERARD, M. D.

From Horace, Lib. 1. Ode 38.

On Shakespear's Monument.

To Mr. HANDELL.

To Mrs. ROKEBY, Junior, At Arthingworth.

In Memory of Mrs. Eliz. Bridges, Ob. Dec. 1, 1745, Ætat. 88.

April 18, 1747.

On the Origin of the World.

On the Prospect from Westminster Bridge, March 1750.

[Now Night her highest Noon ascends]

[Adieu my Friend! and may thy Woes]

PSALM LXXXVIII.

ODE on Psalm CXXX.

ODE on Part of the same.

HYMN, Taken from Psalm VIII.

HYMN from Psalm CXIX. Ver. 54.

September 20th, 1753.

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Horace to Leuconoe.

No! no! Leuconoe! seek no more
What rests for thee or me in Store;
'Tis Guilt the future to explore:
The vain Chaldæan's Art to try;
For casting thy Nativity.
'Tis better learn the worst to bear:
Whether we gain another Year;
Or this the last which shall be given
At the determin'd Will of Heav'n.
Be wise; and pierce the gen'rous Wine:
And all thy distant Hopes resign;
When but a Moment can be thine.
And what can envious Time afford,
Which slies while we pronounce the Word?
Then seize the present while you may;
Nor trust To-morrow for a Day.