Poems on several occasions

Wesley, Samuel (1662-1735)

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VERSES UPON MY FATHER,

A POETICAL EPISTLE TO MY BROTHER CHARLES.

AN ELEGY ON DR. FRANCIS ATTERBURY,

VERSES

PSALM XCVIII.

PSALM XCIII.

THE SONG OF THE THREE CHILDREN.

TO MY SISTER LAMBERT, ON HER MARRIAGE.

TO MR. JUSON, ON HIS MARRIAGE.

TO MR. BOURNE, ON HIS MARRIAGE.

TO MR. PEARCE, ON HIS MARRIAGE.

LINES ON ROBERT NELSON, ESQ.,

ON DR. MIDDLETON.

MELISSA.

WROOTE: A HEROIC POEM.

TO JAMES OGLETHORPE, ESQ.

UPON BISHOP ATTERBURY'S BIRTH-DAY.

THE BLACKBIRD.

ON BISHOP ATTERBURY'S ROASTING LORD CONINGSBY

ELEGIAC VERSES.

VERSES UPON MR. BEAR'S CAT,

A LETTER TO A FRIEND

TO MR. FITZGERALD, UPON HIS MARRIAGE.

A LETTER TO MR. KILNER ON HIS MARRIAGE.

ADDISON'S VERSES TO THE PRINCESS,

UPON THE PICTURES OF ONE MARRIED AND TWO MAIDEN SISTERS,

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF OXFORD.

AN EPISTLE TO MY LORD OXFORD, 1732.

AN EPISTLE TO MY LORD OXFORD.

TO MR. FORESTER, ON HIS MARRIAGE.

TO MR. LLOYD, ON HIS MARRIAGE, 1732.

TO MR. JEWEL, ON HIS MARRIAGE.

AN ODE TO THE REV. DANIEL PRAT, M.A.

TO MISS B., ON HER GOING AWAY FROM THE WELLS AT NORTHAW, 1718.

WHIGS AND TORIES:

I.—WHIGGORUM PIETAS ET CONGRATULATIO.

II.

II.—PIIS ET GRATULANTIBUS WHIGGIS RESPONSIO.

III.

III.—ANSWER TO A COPY OF VERSES,

IV.

IV.—AN ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING VERSES.

TO THE HONOURABLE THE LADY MARY HAY. 1731.

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THOMAS AND HIS CASSOCK.

A SATIRE AGAINST SNUFF.

WEDLOCK: A SATIRE.

A FULL ANSWER:

TO MISS MARTHA WESLEY.

AN ELEGY ON MR. CHARLES WESLEY,

TO MY WIFE, ON HER BIRTH-DAY.

ANACREONTICS TO MY WIFE.

II.

III.

IV.

FOR A SICK CHILD.

ON THE DEATH OF A DAUGHTER.

“A WOUNDED SPIRIT WHO CAN BEAR?”

EPILOGUE TO THE SAME.

PROLOGUE TO “THE EUNUCH.”

PROLOGUE, 1716.

HENLEY'S SHIELD.

TO CHRISTOPHER RHODES, ESQ.,

SPANISH INSULTS, 1729.

A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN AT AVIGNON TO HIS MISTRESS HERE:

AN EPISTLE TO MY LORD ORRERY, 1738.

PROLOGUE TO MR. BRADY'S COMEDY, CALLED, “HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY; OR, THE RAKE DISAPPOINTED:”

LINES ON A REPORT THAT DUKE WHARTON WAS EXPELLED A LODGE OF FREE-MASONS.

ON A LINE IN “THE CHARACTER OF A COUNTRY PARSON:”

TO MR. THOMAS.

TO CAPTAIN EARLE.

SATIRICAL POETRY

I.—AN ODE TO MR. WALPOLE.

II.

II.—UPON THE JEWEL OF THE TOWER. 1716.

III.

III.—MERCY: AN ODE.

IV.

IV.—THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE KNIGHT TO THE KING.

V.—NOSCE TEIPSUM: TO THE KNIGHT.

VI.

VI.—TO MR. LISTER,

VII.

VII.—ON SIR ROBERT WALPOLE'S SAYING HE WOULD NEVER EMPLOY BOLINGBROKE TO WRITE FOR HIM.

VIII.

VIII.—ON A CONFERENCE IN FRANCE.

IX.

IX.—TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF QUEENSBOROUGH.

X.—ON THE STREET-ROBBERIES.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

XXII.

XXII.—A PANEGYRIC, 1731.

XXIII.

XXIII.—EPIGRAM.

XXIV.

XXIV.—A LITANY.

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TO THE HON. BRIGADIER-GENERAL JONES, AT BLETCHINGTON.

TO THE CONCEALED AUTHOR OF ------, 1708–9.

THE EMBLEM.

EPIGRAMS.

II.

II.—A CONTRAST.

III.

III.—ON THE QUEEN'S HERMITAGE.

V.—ANOTHER.

VI.

VI.—ANOTHER.

VII.

VII.—ANOTHER.

EPIGRAMS: FROM THE GREEK.

XI.

XV.

XVI.

TO W. COLMAN, ESQ., 1737.

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TO MY SISTER LAMBERT, ON HER MARRIAGE.

I

No fiction fine shall guide my hand,
But artless truth the verse supply,
Which all with ease may understand,
But none be able to deny.

II

Nor, sister, take the care amiss
Which I in giving rules employ,
To point the likeliest way to bliss,
To cause as well as wish you joy.

III

Let love your reason never blind
To dream of Paradise below;
For sorrows will attend mankind,
And pain and weariness and woe:

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IV

Though still from mutual love relief
In all conditions may be found;
It cures at once the common grief,
It softens the severest wound.

V

Through diligence and honest gain,
In growing plenty may you live;
And each in piety obtain
Repose that riches cannot give.

VI

If children e'er should bless the bed,
O rather let them infants die,
Than live to grieve the hoary head,
And make the aged father sigh!

VII

Still duteous, let them ne'er conspire
To make their parents disagree;
No son be rival to his sire,
Nor daughter more beloved than thee!

VIII

Let them be humble, pious, wise;
Nor higher station seek to know;
Since only those deserve to rise
Who live contented to be low.

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Firm let the husband's empire stand,
With easy, but unquestion'd, sway;
May he have kindness to command,
And thou the bravery to obey!

X

Long may he give thee comfort! long
As the frail knot of life shall hold;
More than a father, when thou 'rt young;
More than a son, when growing old.

XI

The greatest earthly pleasure try
Allow'd by Providence Divine:
Be he a husband blest as I,
And thou a wife as good as mine!

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TO MY SISTER LAMBERT, ON HER MARRIAGE.

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