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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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TO A LADY.

[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 LADY.

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

Numbers like yours, cou'd gild the tragic show,
Give smiles to death, and decency to woe;

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Diffuse a pleasing lustre o'er the tomb,
Brighten the shade, and beautify the gloom.
To be thus mourn'd,—some generous souls wou'd chuse,
To fall submissive martyrs to the muse;
Wou'd court the cold embrace, nor fear the sting,
Pleas'd with the fate, which such a pen shou'd sing.
Death has no terrors to the good, and brave,
The dread of fools, and bugbear of the slave.
A mind like yours, can all its rage defy,
And hail the storm, that wafts you to the sky.

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[Whether o'er plains she likes to rove]

Whether o'er plains she likes to rove,
Or haunts the music of the grove;
Or if the brooks delight her more,
Or airy heights where lapwings soar,
Close to her steps I'd follow still,
And trace the nymph from hill to hill.
Tell me, ye swains, O! tell me where,
At noon to find the sleeping fair, &c.