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The Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison

Pattison, William (1706-1727)

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MEMOIRS OF THE Author's LIFE, &c.

[Three Poetasters in One Age were born]

[As the Brute-World to Father Adam came]

[Whoever gives himself the Pains to stoop]

[There is a Time, when Love no Wish denies]

YARICO to INKLE:

VERSES on the Death of Mr. W. Pattison.

THE Jealous SHEPHERD; A PASTORAL.

TO Mr. JOHN SAUNDERS,

TO Mr. SAUNDERS,

A SESSION OF THE Cambridge POETS.

Rosamond to Henry: AN EPISTLE.

Henry to Rosamond: AN EPISTLE.

THE HOUR-GLASS.

The Cambridge Beauties.

ABELARD to ELOISA.

TO The last (King George's) Guinea.

To a Needle, that pricked his Mistress's Finger.

THE BEE and CUPID.

TO AN Old Lady that used to Paint.

To One who blamed me for Writing in Praise of a very undeserving Lady.

AN Unseasonable Surprize.

Presenting Waller's Poems to a Lady.

TO A Lady at King's-College Chapel, Cambridge.

ΚΥΝΔΥΜΟΓΕΝΙΑ: A TALE.

The Refusal of Her Hand.

THE Morning Contemplation.

THE INDIFFERENT: Wrote to a Gentleman in Love.

VERSES, Occasioned by the Fifth of November.

THE ROVER Fixed.

THE Shooting Match: TO CUPID.

CHLOE Reproved.

THE Nightingale and Shepherd, Imitated from Strada.

THE Court of VENUS, From CLAUDIAN.

Orpheus and Eurydice,

TO Mr. Taylor, A. B. of St. John's, &c.

To the Same, Weeping.

To the SAME. ON HER PATCHES.

ON A Lady's Necklace.

TO A LADY, Who is most Beautiful, when Angry.

TO Mrs. WIGMORE,

AN Apology to Mr. Bell.

ON A Painted LADY.

An Natura intendat Monstrum? Neg.

TO A Wretched Poetaster;

FROM London to Cambridge.

TO Mr. MITCHELL,

ON HIS MISTRESS's Favours.

Upon seeing a Lady at the Musick-Booth at Sturbridge-Fair.

TO A LADY, That sent me a Flowered Cap.

TO Mrs. MARY FREWEN,

TO THE Countess of Hertford.

To the Right Honourable the Lord CARTERET.

A HARVEST Scene.

EFFIGIES AUTHORIS.

ON A Gentleman's Picture.

VERSES By Way of Contraste to the foregoing Copy, and wrote upon the same Occasion.

WOMEN and WINE:

NANCY, the Bed-maker.

On a Lady's Erasing the Picture of Bathsheba Bathing, represented in a Snuff-Box.

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Miscellaneous POEMS.

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Select Epistles from OVID.

Sapho to Phaon.

OEnone to Paris.

Paris to Hellen.

Penelope to Ulysses.

Ariadne to Theseus.

Dido to Æneas.

Leander to Hero, Priestess of the Temple of Venus

Laodamia to Protesilaus

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LAURA: OR, THE MISTRESS.

AN EPISTLE TO LAURA.

On a Rose gathered, by Laura, in Winter.

On Laura's Singing.

To Laura, walking in the Rain.

To Laura, who thought I mistook her for another in the Dark.

Laura's Picture.

On a Feather in her Hair.

Hellen and Laura.

To a Lady, fishing.

THE Fatal Request to Cupid.

On hearing a very homely, and deformed Lady sing finely.

To a Friend in Love.

The Disappointed Maid, and the drowzy Swain.

The Case stated.

A PROLOGUE TO THE FUNERAL:

A Description of his Mistress.

Sent Me, from a Lady, with a Rose.

On an Apple, given me by Laura.

On hearing a Lady sing Prior's Alexis.

On Crito , who wrote against Me.

On Reading the Turtle and Sparrow, A TALE.

On seeing Mr. Prior's Monument in Westminster-Abbey.

A Receipt to make a Modern Poet.

The Battle of the Pygmies and Cranes.

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AN EPISTLE TO HIS MAJESTY, King GEORGE II.

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POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS: Wrote by Mr. Pattison,

Upon Belinda, who, gathering a Rose, prick'd her Finger.

ON CONTENTMENT.

A Divine Poem. Selected from the 18th, and 91st Psalms.

Part of the 38th and 39th Chapters of Job,

Description of a Shepherd.

Amoret and Florimello.

To an old Lady who painted.

Upon Zephyrinda's Singing.

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Spoken Extempore to a Lady, upon seeing her Shadow in the Water.

Upon a Lame Man newly married.

Written with a Penknife on a Tree.

Upon a Lady's having been at Naples.

Wrote in a Lady's Pocket-Book.

On a Drunkard's writing his Mistress's Name on a Drinking-Glass.

Upon a Lame, Latin Elegiac, Bard.

Speak Truth and Shame the Devil.

Upon One who stiled himself a Great Master of the Easy Poetry.

On a Lady's Birth-Day.

Upon the Lord Rochester's Poem on Nothing.

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To a Needle, that pricked his Mistress's Finger.

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From BONEFONIUS.

Miracle of Cruelty!
Must my Laura bleed by thee?
Her Finger too, endure the Smart?
That tender, inoffensive Part!
What could the sweet Offender do,
Soft, and fair, as falling Snow;
To suffer innocently too!
Was it not Envy caus'd this Hate,
Because thy self wert found less strait?
Did not this thy Fury move
To wound the brighter Queen of Love?

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But, ah! then dreadful Foe, forbear
To execute thy Fury here;
Yet, if you still to Rage incline,
Revenge at once, your Cause, and mine:
Let her obdurate Bosom feel
The angry Fury of thy Steel.
Her Bosom! soft as Turtle's Down,
Yet harder than the hardest Stone!
Her Bosom! colder than the Snow,
Burning at once, and freezing too,
Will brave thy fiercest, deadliest Blow.
Here infix thy piercing Dart,
Deep as Love has pierc'd my Heart:
Then, if thou gain'st the Victory,
How wond'rous will the Conquest be?
To win a Fortress that withstood
The utmost Fury of a God;
At once thy small, yet glorious Dart
Shall conquer Love's, and Laura's Heart.