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The Works of Mr. John Oldham

Together with his Remains
Oldham, John (1653-1683)

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[Book I.]
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SATYRS UPON THE JESUITS:
  
PROLOGUE.
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SATYR I.
 II. 
SATYR II.
 III. 
SATYR III.
 IV. 
SATYR IV.
  
ODE.
  
An Apology for the foregoing Ode, by way of Epilogue.
  
THE Passion of Byblis OUT OF Ovid's Metamorphosis, B. 9. F. 11.
  
A SATYR
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SOME NEW PIECES Never before Publish'd.
  
HORACE His ART of POETRY,
  
An Imitation of HORACE. Book I. Satyr IX.
  
Paraphrase upon HORACE. Book I. Ode XXXI.
  
Paraphrase upon HORACE. Book II. Ode XIV.
  
The PRAISE of HOMER.
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Two Pastorals out of the Greek.
  
BION.
  
The Lamentation for ADONIS.
  
Paraphrase upon the 137. Psalm.
  
Paraphrase upon the HYMN of St. Ambrose.
  
A Letter from the Country to a Friend in Town, giving an Account of the Author's Inclinations to Poetry.
  
Upon a Printer that exposed him by Printing a Piece of his grosly mangled, and faulty.
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POEMS, AND Translations.
  
THE EIGHTH SATYR OF Monsieur BOILEAU, Imitated.
  
THE THIRTEENTH SATYR OF JUVENAL, Imitated.
  
DAVID'S LAMENTATION For the Death of SAUL and JONATHAN, PARAPHRAS'D.
  
THE ODE OF Aristotle in Athenæus, PARAPHRAS'D.
  
Upon the Works of BEN. JOHNSON.
  
THE NINTH ODE Of the Third Book of HORACE, IMITATED.
  
UPON A LADY,
  
CATULLUS EPIGR. VII. IMITATED.
  
SOME ELEGIES OUT OF OVID'S Amours, IMITATED.
  
Book II. Elegy V.
  
Book II. Elegy X.
  
A Fragment of PETRONIUS, PARAPHRAS'D.
  
AN ODE OF ANACREON, PARAPHRAS'D.
  
An Allusion to MARTIAL.
  
THE DREAM.
  
A SATYR TOUCHING NOBILITY.
  
A SATYR.
  
SOME VERSE Written in Septemb. 1676.
  
THE PARTING.
  
Complaining of ABSENCE.
  
Promising a VISIT.
  
THE CARELESS Good Fellow.
  
A SATYR.
  
A SATYR, In Imitation of the Third of JUVENAL.
  
A Dithyrambick.
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REMAINS OF Mr. John Oldham IN VERSE and PROSE.
  
To the Memory of Mr. OLDHAM.
  
On the Death of Mr. John Oldham,
  
In memory of the Author.
  
On the ensuing Poems of Mr. John Oldham, and the Death of his good Friend the ingenious Author.
  
On the Death of Mr. John Oldham.
  
DAMON,
  
Occasioned by the present Edition of the ensuing Poems, and the Death of the ingenious Author.
  
COUNTERPART TO THE SATYR against VERTUE.
  
Virg. ECLOGUE VIII.
  
To Madam L. E. upon her Recovery from a late Sickness.
  
On the Death of Mrs. Katharine Kingscourt a Child of Excellent Parts and Piety.
  
A Sunday-Thought in Sickness.
  
TO THE MEMORY OF Mr. CHARLES MORWENT.
  
To the Memory of that worthy Gentleman, Mr. Harman Atwood.

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34

A Sunday-Thought in Sickness.

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My Pray'rs are heard, a glorious Light now shone,
And (lo!) an Angel-Post comes hast'ning down:
From Heav'n I see him cut the yielding Air;
So swift, he seems at once both there and here;
So quick, my sight in the pursuit was slow,
And Thought could scarce so soon the Journey go.
No angry Message in his Look appears,
His Face no signs of threatning Vengeance wears.
Comly his shape, of Heavenly Meen and Air,
Kinder than Smiles of beauteous Virgins are.
Such he was seen by the blest Maid of Old
When he th' Almighty Infant's Birth foretold.
A mighty Volume in one hand is born,
Whose open'd Leaves the other seems to turn:
Vast Annals of my Sins in Scarlet writ,
But now eras'd, blot out, and cancell'd quite.
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Heark how the Heavenly Whisper strikes mine Ear,
Mortal, behold thy Crimes all pardon'd here!
Hail Sacred Envoy of th' Eternal King!
Welcom as the blest Tidings thou dost bring.
Welcom as Heav'n from whence thou cam'st but now,
Thus low to thy great God and mine I bow,
And might I here, O might I ever grow,
Fix'd an unmov'd and endless Monument
Of Gratitude to my Creator sent.
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