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Poems Upon Several Occasions

By Benj. Hawkshaw

Hawkshaw, Benjamin

[epigraph]

[dedication]

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Love-Verses, SONGS AND TRANSLATIONS, By the same Hand.

Translated from the Italian Poets.

The Disappointment.

My Wish.

All for Love.

Translated from the Italian Poets.

My DREAM, sent in a Letter to a Friend.

A SONG.

On a Lady who always carried a Looking-Glass with her.

The VISION.

The Incurable.

On a Lady who slighted my Love.

A SONG.

The Despair.

Her Influence.

Translated from the Italian Poets. ODE XXIV.

Her Presence.

A SONG.

The second Elegy of the Fourth Book of Tibullus, translated: Sulpitia's praise.

A Description of Mrs. E. T. as I saw her in the Exchange.

The FEVER.

A SONG.

The BOLDNESS.

The Fourth Elegy of the Fourth Book of Tibullas, translated.

The DISCOVERY.

Translated from the Italian Poets.

A SONG.

The Third Elegy of the Fourth Book of Tibullas, translated.

Platonick Love.

The Fourteenth Elegy of the Second Book of Propertius, translated.

Translated from the Italian Poets. ODE XXXII.

A Letter to a young Lady, who sent me a Box of Pills, when she heard I was ill.

On a beautiful Lady who was going to kill herself, when she was at Supper, had she not been accidentally prevented by one of the Company.

A SONG.

Translated from the Italian Poets.

The FAREWEL.

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A SONG.

[Had the too tender Gods first made]

I

Had the too tender Gods first made
Men's Hearts as hard as Steel,
Their Weakness ne're had been betraid
By ev'ry stroak they feel.

II

Scattered by Cupid's Darts welye,
And yet still call for more,
Happier we ev'ry minute dye
Than e're we liv'd before.

III

Surely the generous Gods above
Have Hearts as well as we,
Nay they must passionately love,
If we in Form agree.

IV

But they alas more Pleasures find,
Fixt to no World they rove,
Whilst we are here to one confin'd,
They pick and chuse their Love.