The Works, In Verse and Prose, of Leonard Welsted ::

The Works, In Verse and Prose, of Leonard Welsted

... Now First Collected. With Historical Notes, And Biographical Memoirs of the Author, by John Nichols

(1688-1747)

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POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

APPLE-PYE.

A POEM, occasioned by the late Famous Victory of Audenarde.

A POEM to the Memory of the incomparable Mr. J. PHILIPS;

An EPISTLE to MR. STEELE, on the KING's Accession to the Crown, 1714.

To the Earl of CLARE, on his being created Duke of Newcastle, 1715.

To the Countess of WARWICK,

The GENIUS;

PALÆMON to CÆLIA, at Bath;

ACON and LAVINIA.

Thyrsis and Daphne, A Tale;

To ZELINDA,

The FAULTLESS FAIR.

THE PORTRAITURE.

The PICTURE of a fine April Morning.

TO ZELINDA.

THE INVITATION.

HORACE, BOOK I. ODE XIX.

TIBULLUS, BOOK I. ELEGYI.

A SONG.

An EPISTLE to His Grace the Duke of CHANDOS.

AN EPIGRAM.

A PROLOGUE occasioned by the Revival of a PLAY of SHAKESPEAR,

EPILOGUE,

HORACE, BOOK IV. ODE II.

An EPISTLE to the Earl of CADOGAN.

Dean SMEDLEY'S Ode to the Earl of CADOGAN.

An EPISTLE to the late Dr. Garth,

PROLOGUE to Steele's CONSCIOUS LOVERS, 1722.

EPILOGUE to the Same;

To Mr. PHILIPS,

VERSES addressed to Mr. WELSTED,

The Occasion of ÆSCULAPIUS being brought to ROME.

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The Deification of Julius Cæsar.

The reign of Augustus, in which Ovid flourished.

The Poet concludes.

ΟΙΚΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ

PROLOGUE to SOUTHERN'S Money's the Mistress, 1725.

PROPOSALS for translating HORACE.

HORACE, BOOK I. ODE I.

HORACE, BOOK I. ODE III.

HORACE, BOOK I. ODE V.

HORACE, BOOK I. ODE XXII.

EPILOGUE to “The Widow Bewitched,”

ONE EPISTLE to Mr. A. POPE,

Of DULNESS and SCANDAL

OF FALSE FAME;

EPISTLE to Mr. WELSTED,

A POEM to her Royal Highness The PRINCESS of WALES;

The SUMMUM BONUM;

FRAGMENT of a POEM,

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HORACE, BOOK I. ODE V.

Who, Amoret, is now the joy
Of thy fond heart? what blooming boy,
Rich-essenc'd, and on rose-beds laid,
Pants o'er thee on the grotto's shade?
For whom, like rural maidens fair,
Wreath'st thou with flowers thy flaxen hair?

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How oft shall he thy faith arraign?
Of the chang'd Gods how oft complain?
With what surprize, unwont, survey
The lowring heavens and clouded day?
The youth who, now with smiles carest,
Trusts in the charms that make him blest;
Who paints thee vacant, lovely, kind;
Unweening of the faithless wind!
Curs'd! who to those false smiles confide;
Doat on that darling face untry'd!
In yonder tablet 'tis exprest,
That I have hung my sea-dank vest,
An offering, in his sacred-shrine,
To the great Power that rules the brine.

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HORACE, BOOK I. ODE V.