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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.

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,

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,

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.

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.

TO A LADY.

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

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 EPITAPH,

On a Negro Servant, Who died at Governor Phipps's, At Haywood, near Westbury.

European vain—mock not my hue,
Nor ridicule a slave;
Death soon, like me, will blacken you,
In darkness, and the grave.

Tho' nature o'er my swarthy skin
Diffus'd a sable blot;
Yet was my mind unstain'd within,
And free from vicious spot.

It boots not here, or black, or white,
All colours suit the tomb;
Black guests, and Æthiopian night,
Sit round this funeral room.

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Releas'd from servitude, and woe,
Here all my toils are o'er,
To some green island I shall go,
And see my native shore.

Tho' with reluctant mind I part,
From my kind master here;
Yet my old country has my heart,
And liberty is dear.

There in some shady, Indian grove,
I shall forever stray;
Or o'er the pathless mountain rove,
And hunt for savage prey.

It matters not, or rich, or poor,
But 'tis the honest man;
Whether he lives on India's shore
In Europe, or Japan.

Live well—nor tremble at the grave,
The good shall live again;
The wicked man's the truest slave,
And death a tyrant then.