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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,

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.

PSALM CXXI.

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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PSALM CXXI.

(By the Same.)

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

1

Beyond the sacred mountain's height,
Which tow'rs with awful pride;
From whence the rays of morning light,
Down to our regions glide.

2

From the Creator's boundless store,
My wants, are all supply'd;
He spake—and heav'n obey'd his pow'r,
And spread its circuit wide.

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3

The earth, with various blessings stor'd,
Obedient to his call,
Arose—and by his pow'rful word,
Whirls round its circling ball.

4

Israel! thy keeper slumbers not,
Nor can refreshment need;
His eyes, survey the happy spot,
On which his servants feed.

5

Heav'n's glorious majesty! still deigns
His servants, to defend;
My watchful guardian he remains,
A sure protecting friend.

6

Surrounded by the king of kings!
And guarded by his pow'r,
Perpetual peace and safety springs,
And ev'ry blissful hour.

7

Beneath his sweet refreshing shade,
My weary soul shall rest,
Nor of the scorching sun afraid,
Nor by the moon distrest.

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8

No evil, can destructive prove
While shelter'd by the Lord;
My soul, the object of his love,
His love, shall still record.

9

My steps well order'd by his care,
From ev'ry ill, secure;
With safety pass each gilded snare,
That wou'd to vice allure.

10

And when from this bewilder'd state,
To happier realms I fly,
Thy glorious name I'll celebrate
To all eternity.