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Occasional Poems

Translations, Fables, Tales, &c. By William Somervile
Somerville, William (1675-1742)
  
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AN ODE, Humbly Inscrib'd to his Grace The Duke of Marlborough,
  
An ODE, Occasion'd by the Duke of Marlborough's Imbarking for Ostend, An. 1712.
  
To Mr. Addison,
  
An Imitation of the Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace.
  
To Doctor Mackenzie.
  
The WIFE.
  
In Memory of my Dear Friend, The late Reverend Mr. Moore.
  
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The HIP.
  
To a LADY,
  
Presenting to a Lady a White Rose and a Red, on the Tenth of June.
  
The Bowling-Green.
  
The Lamentation of David over Saul and Jonathan.
  
To a young Lady, with the Iliad of Homer translated.
  
Hudibras and Milton reconciled.
  
Upon Miranda's leaving the Country.
  
To Phillis.
  
To the Right Honourable the Earl of HALIFAX,
  
A Song for the Lute.
  
The Coquet.
  
The Superannuated Lover.
  
Advice to the Ladies.
  
ANACREONTICK,
  
To a Discarded Toast.
  
The Perjured Mistress.
  
To a young Lady, who spent the Night in Tears, upon a Report that her Brother was to fight a Duel the next Morning.
  
To Doctor M--- reading Mathematicks.
  
From Martial. Epig. 47.
  
To a Gentleman, who married his Cast Mistress.
  
A Dainty New BALLAD:
  
Canidia's Epithalamium.
  
Hunting-Song.
  
A Translation of the Tenth Epistle in Horace.
  
The Miser's Speech:
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FABLE I.
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FABLE II.
  
FABLE III.
  
FABLE IV.
  
FABLE V.
  
FABLE VI.
  
FABLE VII.
  
FABLE VIII.
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FABLE IX.
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FABLE X.
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FABLE XI.
  
FABLE XII.
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FABLE XIII.
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FABLE XIV.
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CANTO I.
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CANTO II.
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CANTO III.
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CANTO IV.
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CANTO V.
  
The Devil Outwitted:
  
The Officious Messenger:
  
The Inquisitive Bridegroom:
  
Bacchus Triumphant:
  
The Night-Walker Reclaim'd.
  
The Happy Disappointment:
  
A Padlock for the Mouth:
  
The Wise Builder.
  
The True Use of the Looking-Glass:
  
Mahomet Ali Beg: or, The Faithful Minister of State.
  
The Sweet-scented Miser.
  
The Incurious Bencher.
  
The Busy Indolent:
  
The Yeoman of Kent:
  
The Happy Lunatick:

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The Coquet.

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When tortur'd by the cruel Fair,
And almost mad with wild Despair,
My fleeting Spirits rove;
One cordial Glance restores her Slave,
Redeems me from the gapeing Grave,
And sooths my Soul to Love.

2

Thus in a Sea of Doubt I'm toss'd,
Now sunk, now thrown upon the Coast;
What Wretch can long endure
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Such odd, perplexing Pangs as these,
When neither mortal the Disease,
Nor yet compleat the Cure?

3

Proud Tyrant! since to save, or kill,
Depends on thy capricious Will,
This milder Sentence give;
Reverse my strange, untoward Fate,
Oh! let me perish by thy Hate,
Or by thy Kindness live.
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