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A Collection of Original Poems

By Samuel Derrick

Derrick, Samuel (1724-1769)

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VERSES addressed to Mrs. Davis on her performing the part of the Lady in Comus.

The ART of MAKING KISSES.

The ENCHANTRESS.

The 25th Ode of the 3d Book of Horace Imitated.

CHANSON A BOIRE.

A VOYAGE from Dublin to Chester.

EPIGRAMMA OWENI translated.

To a Lady crying for the Death of her Lapdog.

THETIS and PELEUS.

The CATERPILLARS.

A Paraphrase on the 146th Psalm.

To a Lady who writes elegantly.

CUPID GONE ASTRAY.

The Fowler and the Nightingale.

VULCAN'S REVENGE.

A Paraphrase on the 19th Psalm.

On the Author's receiving a Sprig of Myrtle from a young Lady.

An Epitaph upon a young Lady.

Written extempore in a young Lady's Pocket-Book.

Upon SOMETHING.

On Mr. Pope's Death being mentioned in some News-papers, without any Account of his Character, Works, Life, Age, or Circumstances of his Illness.

Left by Mr. Pope in a Bed-chamber, at Adderbury in Oxfordshire, formerly the Seat of the Earl of Rochester, then in Possession of the late Duke of Argyle.

LAST NIGHT THOUGHTS.

A Crambo Song, on Mr. J. Dennison,

A Crambo Song on a Tankard.

The Crows, Starling, and Husbandman.

The Author's Apology for writing, after he had bid Farewel to his Muse.

BARDUS and BIBLIO.

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On the Author's receiving a Sprig of Myrtle from a young Lady.

What fears, what terrors does thy gift create,
Ambiguous emblem of my future fate;
The myrtle ensign of supreme command,
Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand;

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Not less capricious than the reigning fair,
Oft favours, oft rejects the poet's pray'r;
In myrtle groves, oft sings the happy swain;
In myrtle shades, despairing ghosts complain:
Oh! then the meaning of thy gift impart,
And ease the throbbing of an anxious heart;
Soon, shall this bough, as you shall fix his doom,
Adorn Philander's head,—or grace his tomb.