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Poems on Several Occasions

Written by Charles Cotton
Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

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To Cœlia.
  
The Expostulation.
  
Sonnet.
  
The Tempest.
  
To Cœlia.
  
The Picture.
  
Elegy.
  
Taking leave of Chloris.
  
Song.
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Resolution in four Sonnets, of a Poetical Question put to me by a Friend, concerning four Rural Sisters.
 I. 
Sonnet. I.
 II. 
Sonnet. II.
 III. 
Sonnet. III.
 IV. 
Sonnet. IV.
  
On my pretty Marten.
  
The New-year.
  
The Joys of Marriage.
  
ODE. To Love.
  
Song.
  
Elegy.
  
In Coccam.
  
Writ in Calista's Prayer-Book.
  
Song.
  
ODE. To Chloris.
  
ODE.
  
To John Bradshaw, Esq
  
WINTER.
  
On Rutt: the Judge.
  
On Sim and Simon.
  
Virelay.
  
Madrigal.
  
La Illustrissima.
  
Chanson a Boire.
  
The Angler's Ballad.
  
Epistle to John Bradshaw Esq;
  
Anacreontick.
  
Burlesque. Upon the Great Frost.
  
Clepsydra.
  
Eclogue.
  
To my dear and most worthy Friend, Mr. Isaac Walton.
  
To the Countess of Chesterfield, on the Birth of her first Son.
  
To Chloris.
  
Old Tityrus to Eugenia.
  
Epistle to John Bradshaw Esq;
  
Epistle to John Bradshaw, Esq;
  
The Retirement.
  
Rondeau.
  
To Cupid.
  
To Ælia.
  
Sonnet.
  
Stanzes de Monsieur Bertaud.
  
The eighth Psalm paraphrased.
  
Advice.
  
Lyrick.
  
Amoret in Masquerade.
  
Estreines.
  
Epigramme de Monsieur des-Portes.
  
Epigramme de Monsieur Cotin.
  
Epigramme de Monsieur Maynard.
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A Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque.
 1. 
[Canto 1.]
 2. 
Canto 2.
 3. 
Canto 3.
  
The Storm.
  
ODE.
  
Εις το δουιν πινειν
  
On Christmas-day.
  
Saphick Ode.
  
The Morning Quatrains.
  
Noon Quatrains.
  
The Night.
  
Evening.
  
Night.
  
Ode.
  
Ode de Monsieur Racan.
  
Contentation.
  
Stances de Monsieur de Scudery.
  
Melancholy.
  
Hope.
  
Epistle to the Earl of ---
  
Beauty.
  
Rondeau.
  
Woman.
  
The World.
  
De Vita Beata.
  
Q. Cicero, De mulierum levitate.
  
Despair.
  
Sonnet.
  
Sonnet.
  
Sonnet.
  
Sonnet.
  
Poverty.
  
Death.
  
On the Death of the Most Noble Thomas Earl of Ossory.
  
Ode Bachique.
  
Epistle to Sir Clifford Clifton, then sitting in Parliament.
  
Stances de Monsieur Bertaud.
  
Contentment.
  
Epigram.
  
In Mendacem.
  
Day-Break.
  
SONG
  
Forbidden Fruit.
  
The Picture.
  
On One, who said, He drank to clear his Eyes.
  
The Separation.
  
Another of the same.
  
On the great Eater of Grays-Inn.
  
An Epitaph on my Dear Aunt, Mrs. Ann Stanhope.
  
SONG.
  
An Epitaph on M. H.
  
The Retreat.
  
The Sleeper.
  
The Token.
  
Song. Montross.
  
SONG.
  
A Journey into the Peak.
  
New Prison.
  
Her Name.
  
Epitaph On Mr. Robert Port.
  
SONG.
  
Sir William Davenant
  
To Sir William Davenant.
  
To my Friend Mr. John Anderson.
  
Les Amours.
  
ELEGY.
  
Her Hair.
  
SONG.
  
The Surprize.
  
The Visit.
  
De Lupo.
  
On Upstart.
  
Epitaph On Mrs. Mary Draper.
  
Cælia's Fall.
  
Eclogue.
  
Her Sigh.
  
On the Lamented Death Of my Dear Uncle, Mr. Radcliff Stanhope.
  
On the Lord Derby.
  
On Marriot.
  
To Cælia's Ague.
  
A Valediction.
  
Love's Triumph.
  
A Rogue.
  
The Contest.
  
The False One.
  
ODE
  
To my friend Mr. Lely, on his Picture of the Excellently Virtuous Lady, the Lady Isabella Thynn.
  
To Chloris.
  
Taking Leave of Chloris.
  
ODE.
  
ODE.
  
ODE.
  
An Old Man's Gift to a Fair Lady.
  
In Amorem Medicum.
  
The Legend of the Famous, Furious, Expert, and Valiant Gittar-Masters, Caveliero Comer, and Don Hill.
  
On Annel-seed Robin, the Hermophrodite.
  
ODE. To Chloe.
  
ODE. To Chloris from France.
  
An Invitation to Phillis.
  
The Entertainment to Phillis.
  
To Cœlia.
  
To Cupid.
  
The Tempest.
  
The Litany.
  
To some Great Ones.
  
To the Memory of my worthy Friend Colonel Richard Lovelace.
  
To Poet E. W.
  
DIALOGUE.
  
An Epitaph on Robert Port, Esq; design'd for a Monument:
  
To Cupid, a foolish Poet, occasion'd by as foolish a Poem of his to a bona Roba.
  
Philoxipes and Policrite.
  
To Mr. Alexander Brome.
  
On Tobacco.
  
Laura Sleeping.
  
Laura Weeping.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
To Sir Aston Cockayne, on Captain Hanniball.
  
In imitation of a Song in the Play of Rollo.
  
To Sir Aston Cockayne, on his Tragedy of Ovid.
  
De Die Martis, & Die Veneris.
  
ALIUD.
  
ODE To Love.
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TRANSLATIONS Out of several POETS.
  
Horace his second Epod Translated.
  
Horat. Ode IX. Lib. III.
  
Martial, Epig. Lib. I. Ep. XX.
  
Stances de Monsieur Theophile.
  
Her Heart and Mine.
  
To Charinus, an ugly Womans Husband.
  
An Ode of Johannes Secundus Translated.
  
EPIG. Translated out of Hieron; Amaltheus.
  
Love's World.
  
Martial, Ep. 84. Lib. 10.
  
Id. Ep. 93. Lib. 11.
  
Id. Ep. 58. Lib. 1.
  
Id. Ep. 48. Lib. 1.
  
Id. Lib. Ep. 65.
  
Id. Lib. 1. Ep. 3.
  
Id. Lib. 2. Ep. 88.
  
Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 9.
  
Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 28.
  
Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 26.
  
Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 32.
  
Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 52.
  
Id. Lib. 4. Ep. 78.
  
Id. Lib. 4. Ep. 86.
  
Id. Lib. 5. Ep. 46.
  
Id. Lib. 5. Ep. 44.
  
Id. Lib. 17. Ep. 32.
  
Id. Lib. 10. Ep. 47.
  
Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 3.
  
Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 19.
  
Id. Lib. 8. Ep 23.
  
Id. Lib. Ep. 47.
  
Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 21.
  
Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 35.
  
Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 53.
  
Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 59.
  
Id. Lib. 7. Ep. 100.
  
Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 41.
  
Id. Lib. II. Ep. 103.
  
Id. Lib. 12. Ep. 7.
  
Id. Lib. 12. Ep. 20.
  
Horat. Lib 1. Carmin. Ode 8.
  
De Fortuna: an sit cæca.
  
Tria Mala ex eodem.
  
Id. Lib. Ep. 15.
  
ODE De Theophile.
  
Elegy de Theophile.
  
Out of Astrea.
  
Stanzes upon the Death of Cleon.
  
Song of the inconstant Hylas.
  
SONNET.
  
A PARAPHRASE.
  
An Essay upon Buchanan's First Book de Sphæra. Never perfected.
  
Cn. Cornelii Galli; vel potius Maximiani Elegia 1. Trans.
  
Ad Furium, Ep. 23.
  
De Catella Publ. Mart. Ep. 110. Lib. 1.
  
Eccho ad Pictorem Ausonii Epig.
  
De Myrone & Laide Ausonii.
  
De Vita beata.
  
Q. Cicero de Mulierum levitate.
  
Epig. de Monsieur Maynard.
  
In Coccam.
  
Epig. de Monsieur Maynard.
  
Epig. writ in Calistas Prayer Book. By Monsieur Malherbe.
  
ODE Bacchique de Monsieur Racau.
  
Lyrick.
  
De luxu, & libidine.
  
Id. in Avarum.
  
Id. in Digamos.
  
Stances de Monsieur de Scudery.
  
Epitaph Monsieur Maynard.
  
On Cation a Dwarf.
  
Epig. de Monsieur Maynard.
  
In Coccam.
  
In Coccam.
  
Epig. de Monsieur Maynard.
  
To Agrippa.
  
Epig. de Monsieur Corneille.
  
Epig. de Monsieur Cotin.
  
Epig. de Mons. de Bensaurade.
  
Madrigal on Queen Dido.
  
Sede d' Amore.
  
Foco di sdegno.
  
Risposta. del Tasto.
  
WINTER.
  
An ELEGY upon the Lord Hastings.
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[dedication]
  
To his Honor'd Friend, the Author of this Excellent POEM.
  
THE BATTAIL OF YVRY.

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SONG.

I

Pre'thee, why so angry, Sweet?
'Tis in vain,
To dissemble a Disdain,
That Frown i'th' infancy I'le meet,
And kiss it to a Smile again.
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II

In that pretty Anger is
Such a grace,
As Loves fancy would embrace,
As to new Crimes may Youth entice,
So that Disguise becomes that Face.

III

When thy rosie Cheek thus checks
My offence,
I could sin with a pretence:
Through that sweet chiding Blush there breaks,
So fair, so bright an Innocence.

IV

Thus your very frowns entrap
My desire,
And inflame me to admire
That Eyes, drest in an angry shape,
Should kindle, as with amorous fire.
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