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Poems on Various Subjects

with some Essays in Prose, Letters to Correspondents, &c. and A Treatise on Health. By Samuel Bowden

Bowden, Samuel

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To the Right Honourable Lord BOYLE, Lord Viscount Dungarvan On His late Marriage to Miss HOARE of Sturton.

THE Mouse and the Oyster:

TO A Beautiful Young Lady,

TO A Young LADY,

To the Reverend Mr. Lionel Seaman, M.A.

A Farewel to the Country.

TO A Young LADY,

To an Ingenious Young LADY,

THE PHILOSOPHER;

On the Death of Miss GOLDNEY.

A REBUS ON THE AUTHOR's NAME.

TO THE Unknown Contriver Of the Foregoing Rebus on Bow and Den.

ON THE Earl of ORRERY's (Now Earl of CORK's) Cutting down the Limb of an Aged Tree,

On the Death of Mr. John Smith, Clothier,

TO A Young Lady at Holt,

A Description of Chedder-Cliffs;

Superstition: A Tale:

AN EPITAPH ON AN ONLY CHILD,

TO THE Memory of a Young Lady,

TO AN Astrological Gentleman,

TO A Young LADY,

On the Death of an Only CHILD,

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TRANSLATIONS FROM MARTIAL.

LIB. 1. Epigram 1. On Cæsar's Amphitheatre.

Epig. 6. On the Combat of a Woman with a Lion, in the Amphitheatre.

Epig. 9. The RHINOCEROS.

Epig. 72. To the GOD of SLEEP.

Epig. 74. To CECILIAN.

LIB. 2. Epig. 90. To QUINCTILIAN.

Epig. 59. The VIPER inclosed in Amber.

Epig. 60. On CURATIUS's Death.

THE Description of a Cottage, Lately Re-built by the Right Honourable Earl of CORKE and ORRERY, In his Gardens at Marston;

TO A GENTLEMAN,

The Gentleman's Answer.

To Mr. John Prowse,

THE ALPHABET in VERSE: For the Use of Children.

TO A Young LADY at Holt,

The LADY's Answer.

THE Author's Reply to Sylvia,

AN EPITHALAMIUM.

TO Peter Lovel, Esq;

The Disappointed Travellers of Frome:

To the Right Honourable the EARL of ORRERY, (Now Earl of CORKE)

TO A Young LADY,

A Friendly CAUTION TO A GENTLEMAN,

THE REPLY To a Young LADY's Friendly Caution to the Author,

ELEGIAC VERSES,

A LATIN EPIGRAM.

On the Death of Miss AMYAND.

TO A YOUNG LADY, With a Bird and Cage.

TO A GENTLEMAN,

Translation from Martial.

ANTHOLOGIA, EPIG. 25.

AN ELEGIAC POEM,

AN EPITAPH ON Richard Middleton, Esq; A. M.

THE DIE in CAPTIVITY.

A SONG. (By a Lady.) ALEXIS.

Aurelia to Strephon.

AN EPITHALAMIUM,

A Parent's Lamentation,

AN EPITHALAMIUM.

THE Mechanic Inspir'd:

The STORY of the Barber and his Lanthorn.

On the Death of Mr. S--- B---, of Bristol.

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[Numbers like yours, cou'd gild the tragic show]

[Whether o'er plains she likes to rove]

THE ANSWER TO THE Lady's Last Letter of August 1749.

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AN Allegorical Dialogue, BETWEEN THE Huck-muck, and the Beesom,

The Beesom's Reply.

A Mirror for Detractors.

TO Dr. MORGAN, ON HIS Philosophical Principles OF MEDICINE.

THE WHEEL-BARROW, A POEM:

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TO A Young LADY at Holt,

(A Place famous for Mineral Waters) ON HER Late Ingenious POEMS.

Whilst you from Holt sweet accents sound,
Shall neighb'ring bards sit silent round?
So tunes the bird her midnight flute,
In shades—while all around is mute.
Enchanted with your lays too long,
I break from silence into song.

Nymph of these healing Waters! say,
What power inspires your magic lay?
Smooth as the stream where You reside;
Rich as its vein, your numbers glide.
Say, do those salutary springs,
Pierian like, raise fancy's wings;

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Not only cure the sick, the lame,
But animate poetic flame.
Sacred the stream—the fount divine,
And You some sister of the Nine;
Some tuneful Naiad to preside,
And warble near the fountain's side.

As at fam'd Aix, historians tell,
Great Charles's horse struck out a well;
So now we need no farther proof,
That Pegasus here stuck his hoof.
No more shall Holt its name retain,
Castalian springs shall bless the plain.
With You 'tis all poetic ground,
And Aganippè murmurs round;
Not Holt, but Helicon is seen,
And You the Sappho of the green.

March, 1749.

Historians say, the Mineral Waters at Aix-la-Chapelle were discover'd by the Emperor Charles's Horse accidentally striking on the spring.