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

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Yet if by chance I heard her song,
Chanting far off the woods among,
Invited by the rural lay,
I'd thro' the pathless desart stray,
Where roses wild adorn the green,
And wither in the shade unseen;
And many a pink, and artless flower,
With purple stain the sylvan bower.
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While cooing turtles from on high,
Murmur their love plaints near the sky.
I'd ask each wood-nymph of the shade,
If they had seen the wand'ring maid;
And in what bosky grove or cell,
The solitary fair might dwell.
Or if the drowsy god of sleep,
Has clos'd her eyes in slumber deep;
And with enchantments magic tie,
Seal'd up those lips of harmony.
Pan, with his horn, shou'd break the spell,
And shake the dormitory cell.
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