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The Poems of Ambrose Philips

Edited by M. G. Segar
Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)

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PASTORALS, EPISTLES, ODES, AND OTHER ORIGINAL POEMS, With Translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho.
  
[dedication]
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PASTORAL POEMS.
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THE FIRST PASTORAL. If we, O Dorset, quit the city-throng
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THE SECOND PASTORAL. Is it not Colinet I lonesome see
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THE THIRD PASTORAL. When Virgil thought no shame
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THE FOURTH PASTORAL. This place may seem for shepherd's leisure made
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THE FIFTH PASTORAL. In rural strains we first our musick try
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THE SIXTH PASTORAL. How still the sea behold! how calm the sky!
  
THE STRAY NYMPH
  
THE HAPPY SWAIN
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EPISTLES
  
LAMENT FOR QUEEN MARY.
  
TO A FRIEND WHO Desired me to write on the Death of King William.
  
From Holland to a Friend in England in the Year 1703.
  
TO THE EARL of DORSET
  
To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax, one of the Lords Justices appointed by His Majesty.
  
To the Honourable JAMES CRAGGS, Esq; Secretary at WAR.
  
TO LORD CARTERET, departing from Dublin.
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ODES. ETC.
  
A BACCHANALIAN SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
TO SIGNORA CUZZONI.
  
To MIRANDA.
  
To the Memory of the late EARL of HALIFAX.
  
To the Honourable MISS CARTERET.
  
On the Death of the Right Honourable. William Earl Cowper.
  
To the Right Honourable William Pulteney, Esq
  
To Miss Margaret Pulteney, daughter of Daniel Pulteney Esq; in the Nursery.
  
To Miss Charlotte Pulteney, in her Mother's Arms.
  
To the Right Honourable ROBERT WALPOLE Esq
  
Supplication for Miss Carteret in the Small-Pox.
  
TO Miss Georgiana Youngest Daughter to Lord Carteret.
  
Occasion'd by the early SINGING of a LARK.
  
A MIDNIGHT THOUGHT.
  
SONG.
  
Reading Mr. WALLER.
  
LYING at her FEET.
  
[Promis'd Blessing of the Year]
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EPIGRAMS AND SHORT POEMS
  
On a Company of bad Dancers to good Musick.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
In Answer to the Question, What is Thought?
  
Half Masking her Self when she Smil'd.
  
In the YEAR 1714.
  
To Mr. Addison on Cato.
  
On Wit and Wisdom. A FRAGMENT.
  
The following Epitaph on the Monument of my Kinswoman was written at the Request of her Husband.
  
THE FABLE of THULE,
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TRANSLATIONS.
  
THE First Olympionique of PINDAR.
  
THE SECOND OLYMPIONIQUE.
  
The First ODE of Anacreon.
  
The SECOND ODE.
  
The THIRD ODE.
  
The Fourth Ode of ANACREON.
  
ANACREON. Ode 34.
  
ANACREONTIQUE.
  
[Thou speakest always ill of me]
  
An Hymn to VENUS, from the Greek of SAPPHO.
  
A Fragment of Sappho.
  
The TEA-POT; or, The Lady's Transformation.
  
The DEATH of the JUST.

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On Wit and Wisdom. A FRAGMENT.

In search of wisdom far from wit I fly:
Wit is a harlot, beauteous to the eye,
In whose bewitching arms our early time
We waste, and vigour of our youthful prime:
But when reflexion comes with riper years,
And manhood with a thoughtful brow appears,
We cast the mistress off to take a wife,
And, wed to wisdom, lead a happy life.
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