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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,

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;

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.

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.

TO Dr. MORGAN, ON HIS Philosophical Principles OF MEDICINE.

THE WHEEL-BARROW, A POEM:

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TO A Beautiful Young Lady,

ON HER Conveying a Viper into a Clergyman's Pocket, at the Earl of Orrery's, at Marston-House, Aug. 1744.

Possest with such resistless charms,
Why should you covet other arms?
Why any foreign aid explore,
You who cou'd wound too fast before?
With Cupid's whole artillery clad,
'Twas barbarous, poison'd darts to add.

In other foes 'tis deem'd unfair,
With venom'd arms to wage a war,
Achilles, or fam'd Pella's lord,
In poison never dipt their sword.

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Tyrants, of high despotic views,
Will arbitrary weapons use.
Sure you are some tyrannic maid,
To call in Vipers to your aid,
And make us run still further risque;
You, who have eyes of Basilisk.
But as of old, in Eden's ground,
Serpents in flow'ry fields were found:
So hence this Moral we may take,
No Paradise without a Snake.

'Twas well a grave and reverend Seer
You thus inspir'd with mortal fear;
For men of sanctity, they say,
With spells can conjure harm away:
But ah! no spells can exorcise
The fatal magic of your Eyes;
Eyes that at every glance can kill,
And baffle Mead's, and Galen's skill.