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Poems on several occasions

By H. Carey. The Third Edition, much enlarged

Carey, Henry (1687?-1743)

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THE Marriage of Bacchus.

THE STORY OF Unfortunate PHILLIS.

A SATYR ON THE Luxury and Effeminacy OF THE AGE.

THE Grumbletonians:

THE Antiquated Coquette.

THE Cure of LOVE.

A Sorrowful Lamentation For the Loss of a MAN and no MAN.

VERSES For the Use of the Bell-man of FULHAM.

A Lilliputian ODE ON THEIR MAJESTIES ACCESSION.

THE Parish-Clerk's ADDRESS ON THE Same SUBJECT.

CALLIOPE to her Sky-Lark:

THE Poet's Resentment;

Harry Carey's General Reply, to the Libelling Gentry, who are angry at his Welfare.

THE RETIREMENT:

AN Extempore Thought ON FLATTERY.

Written in a Garden by Moon-light.

PROLOGUE TO THE RIVAL QUEENS:

PROLOGUE Address'd to the LADIES.

EPILOGUE TO THE PURITAN,

EPILOGUE, INTENDED FOR Mr. CIBBER's new PASTORAL,

THE English PROTESTANT.

THE True Woman's MAN.

THE Happy Marriage.

THE LAUREL-GROVE;

TO Dr. PEPUSCH.

TO Mr. GEMINIANI,

TO Mr. GALLIARD,

TO Mr. THOMAS ROSEINGRAVE,

TO Mr. Obadiah Shuttleworth.

TO My Studious FRIEND Mr. John-Frederick Lamp.

TO Mr. JOHN STANLEY,

TO Mr. Matthew Dubourg

THE CYPRESS-GROVE;

To the Memory of Mr. George Haydon,

ON THE DEATH OF Mrs. Elizabeth Farington.

EPITAPH, INTENDED FOR Mrs. Susannah Worsdale.

THE Distress'd FATHER;

The aforesaid Child, dying on her Father's Birth-day, occasion'd the following Lines.

THE BALLAD OF SALLY in our Alley.

A BALLAD ON THE TIMES.

Love for Love's Sake,

Love and Jealousy,

THE STAGG AT BAY,

THE Fine LADY's Life;

THE Romp's SONG.

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THE Tragical STORY OF THE MARE.

ARIA AFFETTUOSA.

Good Reason for Loving,

THE Maid's PETITION.

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LOVE MAKES THE POET.

Upon First Sight of Lesbia.

LESBIA's Insensibility.

Lesbia's Cruelty.

ADVICE TO A FRIEND in Love.

MORE Good ADVICE.

LOVE's a Riddle.

THE Lover's Triumph.

Love Ecstatick.

THE Indifferent Lover.

The Discouragement.

SECOND Mad SONG.

THE Censorious LOVER.

THE Happy SWAIN.

Apollo and Daphne.

Vertumnus and Pomona.

Cynthia and Endymion.

THE Artful SHEPHERDESS.

THE Surly PEASANT.

THE CONFLICT BETWEEN LOVE and WINE.

THE MODERATOR BETWEEN THE Free-Masons and Gormogons.

The Disparity of YOUTH and AGE.

THE Power of GOLD.

THE Fortune—Hunter's Mental Reservation.

THE Queen of HEARTS.

LOVE WITHOUT ALLAY.

A Drinking SONG.

A Bacchanalian Rant.

A Bacchanalian Scene.

THE BEAU MONDE,

THE AUTHOR's Quietus.

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TO My Studious FRIEND Mr. John-Frederick Lamp.

Call not my Lamp obscure, because unknown,
He shines in secret (now) to Friends alone;
Light him but up! let him in publick blaze,
He will delight not only but amaze.