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A collection of original poems and translations

By John Whaley

Whaley, John (1710-1745)

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CORNARO and the TURK,

A JOURNEY TO HOUGHTON,

THE DISSAPPOINTMENT.

VERSES

A Thought on Gaming.

In Imitation of Horace,

In Imitation of Horace.

Translation of Tibullus.

Translation of Tibullus.

Translation from Tibullus.

On reading Lord Bacon's Flattery to King James I.

Epitaph on Charles VI. Emperor of Germany.

In Praise of Water. A. D. 1736.

Imitation of Horace.

Translation of Theocritus.

Translation from Theocritus,

Translation from Theocritus.

Rhapsody, to Milton.

A Voyage to Tinterne Abbey in Monmouthshire, from Whitminster in Glocestershire.

On J. W. ranging Pamphlets.

To the Hon. and Rev. ------

At seeing Archbishop Williams's Monument in Carnarvonshire.

A Song of Deborah.

To the Queen of Hungary 1741.

A Night Thought.

To a Gentleman,

Imitation of Horace.

On two Friends born on the same Day.

On the Death of Mrs. M. H.

To Miss A. W. a very young Lady.

To the Sparrows at Menwinyon in Cornwal.

An ODE, to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, February 6. 1741. On his ceasing to be Minister.

On a young Lady of the North.

To Alexander Pope, Esq. On his Essay of Man.

On a young Lady working green Silk on a white Sattin Ground.

To a young Lady, who Paints very well, but always Draws her own Sex to Disadvantage.

On the Tomb of the Virgin Laura.

Epitaph on Albina.

On Charinus the Husband of an ugly Wife.

On the Statue of a Heifer.

ABELARD to HELOISA.

ON THE Death of a Young Bride.

THESEUS and ARIADNE.

Looking on a Tomb Stone,

On a Wasp's settling on Delia's Arm.

To the Rev. T. T. D. D.

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VERSES

Wrote in the Oak-Walk at Billingbear in Berkshire.

Sacra Jovi Quercus, Veneri gratissima ------

Thou ever verdant, venerable Shade,
Ye sacred Oaks, by Time thus charming made,
More blest than those, the Fav'rites once of Jove,
Eternal Offspring of Dodona's Grove.
Here flourish safe, nor Envy, nor complain,
Tho' your tall Brotherhood in George's Reign
Assert the Empire of the frighted Main.
The Sea and all its Wealth to them resign,
For know a Treasure far more dear is thine;
Bend then your Branches round the Sea-born Fair,
And bending own that Venus is your Care.

These Verses are here printed in Memory of that most accomplish'd young Lady, the Honourable Miss Essex Griffin, who was only Daughter to the late Right Honourable the Lord Griffin, and Niece to the present Right Honourable the Countess of Portsmouth.