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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.
 
ODE.
 
[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.
 
TO A FRIEND.
 
THE Jealous SHEPHERD; A PASTORAL.
 
TO Mr. JOHN SAUNDERS,
 
TO Mr. SAUNDERS,
 
BURLESQUE.
 
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.
 
On LAURINDA.
 
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 FOP.
 
The Refusal of Her Hand.
 
THE Morning Contemplation.
 
THE INDIFFERENT: Wrote to a Gentleman in Love.
 
VERSES, Occasioned by the Fifth of November.
 
THE EXCHANGE.
 
ON CRASSUS.
 
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,
 
Upon a NEEDLE:
 
TO Mr. Taylor, A. B. of St. John's, &c.
 
To LAURA.
 
To the Same, Weeping.
 
To the SAME. ON HER PATCHES.
 
TO Her RING.
 
ON A Lady's Necklace.
 
TO A LADY, Who is most Beautiful, when Angry.
 
On WOMEN.
 
TO Mrs. WIGMORE,
 
TO Mr. EUSDEN,
 
AN Apology to Mr. Bell.
 
To Mr. HEDGES,
 
SONG.
 
TO A FRIEND,
 
ON A Painted LADY.
 
The COMET.
 
An Natura intendat Monstrum? Neg.
 
To Mr. ROCHE,
 
TO A Wretched Poetaster;
 
SONG.
 
FROM London to Cambridge.
 
To the Same.
 
TO Mr. MITCHELL,
 
ON HIS MISTRESS's Favours.
 
TO Mr. POPE.
 
VERSES:
 
Upon seeing a Lady at the Musick-Booth at Sturbridge-Fair.
 
TO A LADY, That sent me a Flowered Cap.
 
ODE on LIGHT
 
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.
 
On CRASSUS.
 
WOMEN and WINE:
 
NANCY, the Bed-maker.
 
On a Lady's Erasing the Picture of Bathsheba Bathing, represented in a Snuff-Box.
 
AD CÆLUM.
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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:
 
The Enjoyment.
 
A Description of his Mistress.
 
Sent Me, from a Lady, with a Rose.
 
On an Apple, given me by Laura.
 
A Song.
 
On hearing a Lady sing Prior's Alexis.
 
To a Lady,
 
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,
 
A Pastoral.
 
To a Lady.
 
Upon Belinda, who, gathering a Rose, prick'd her Finger.
 
The Conquest.
 
ON CONTENTMENT.
 
A Divine Poem. Selected from the 18th, and 91st Psalms.
 
Part of the 38th and 39th Chapters of Job,
 
AN ELEGY:
 
TO LAURA.
 
An Idyllium.
 
Description of a Shepherd.
 
The Dissenter.
 
Amoret and Florimello.
 
To an old Lady who painted.
 
Upon Zephyrinda's Singing.
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EPIGRAMS.
 
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.
 
The Quack.
 
The Miser.
 
From Horace.
 
Upon a Lame, Latin Elegiac, Bard.
 
Speak Truth and Shame the Devil.
 
Upon One who stiled himself a Great Master of the Easy Poetry.
 
Another.
 
On Chloe.
 
On the same.
 
Another.
 
On a Lady's Birth-Day.
 
TOAST.
 
Another.
 
Upon the Lord Rochester's Poem on Nothing.
 
TO CÆLIA.

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NANCY, the Bed-maker.

An Imitation of Ovid's Corinna.

'Twas once upon a Summer's Day,
As on my downy Bed I lay;
All over in a tedious Sweat,
To ease my Limbs, and cool the Heat;
When pretty Nancy gently came,
Nancy, the Object of my Flame!
So soft she look'd, so sweet, so fair,
With such a winning, yielding, Air;
With such an easy comely Pride,
She seem'd a lovely, longing, Bride!
Obedient to her Eyes command,
I seiz'd her warm consenting Hand;
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Upon the downy Bed display'd,
The murm'ring, panting, struggling Maid.
There ravish'd, feasted on her Charms,
Her heaving Breast, her twining Arms,
Her Iv'ry Neck, her roguish Eyes,
Her slender Waist, her taper Thighs,
With magick Beauties there between
Too soft! too dazling to be seen!
Melting, I clasp'd them close to mine,
And in a Moment grew divine!
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