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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
 
[dedication]
 
[epigraph]

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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.
 
VERSES,
 
VERSES,
 
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.
 
ODE to ECHO.
 
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 ÆNIGMA.
 
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.
 
THE Description of a Cottage, Lately Re-built by the Right Honourable Earl of CORKE and ORRERY, In his Gardens at Marston;
 
VERSES,
 
TO A GENTLEMAN,
 
The Gentleman's Answer.
 
To Mr. John Prowse,
 
THE ALPHABET in VERSE: For the Use of Children.
 
An EPITAPH.
 
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)
 
VERSES,
 
ON EDUCATION.
 
TO A Young LADY,
 
A Friendly CAUTION TO A GENTLEMAN,
 
THE REPLY To a Young LADY's Friendly Caution to the Author,
 
PLEASURE.
 
ELEGIAC VERSES,
 
AN ÆNIGMA.
 
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,
 
MARTIAL,
 
AN EPITAPH ON Richard Middleton, Esq; A. M.
 
THE DIE in CAPTIVITY.
 
An EPITAPH,
 
A SONG. (By a Lady.) ALEXIS.
 
PSALM CXXI.
 
Aurelia to Strephon.
 
AN EPITHALAMIUM,
 
EAST-BRENT,
 
VERSES
 
A Parent's Lamentation,
 
AN ÆNIGMA.
 
The ANSWER.
 
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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TO A LADY.
 
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,
 
A Mirror for Detractors.
 
DIRECTIONS,
 
TO Dr. MORGAN, ON HIS Philosophical Principles OF MEDICINE.
 
The SURPRIZE:
 
THE WHEEL-BARROW, A POEM:

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AN ÆNIGMA.

Fashion'd of various shape, and clay,
I Proteus like, am grave, or gay.
Like Flora now polite and fine,
I with rich, sculptur'd figures shine:
Then in demure apparel clad,
Am like an Hermit plain and sad.
My temper too is altogether,
As fickle as the wind or weather:
I'm hot, or cold, am moist, or dry,
In whimsical variety.
Now am inflam'd with boiling rage,
Yet oft' devour much baum and sage,
But herbs which raging fevers tame,
Are but a fuel to my flame;
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With such intestine heat I fume,
My exhalations fill the room.
Like Ætna's gulph my entrails glow,
And with eruptive streams o'erflow.
An issue often gives me vent,
Or I shou'd burst my tenement.
Others by toping reel, and sink,
But I grow stronger, as I drink;
And when with moisture running o'er,
Am fix'd much firmer than before.
The common liquor which I drink,
Makes women gay, and students think;
My sprightly juice dispells all gloom,
And fills you with ambrosial fume;
Twill fire the fancy, clear the brain,
And thus my latent name explain.
1747.
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