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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.
  
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.
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WHIGS AND TORIES:
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I.—WHIGGORUM PIETAS ET CONGRATULATIO.
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II.—PIIS ET GRATULANTIBUS WHIGGIS RESPONSIO.
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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.
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ANACREONTICS TO MY WIFE.
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I.
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II.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V.
  
FOR A SICK CHILD.
  
ON THE DEATH OF A DAUGHTER.
  
“A WOUNDED SPIRIT WHO CAN BEAR?”
  
EPITAPHIUM VIVI.
  
EPITAPH.
  
LINES
  
VERSES
  
AN EPISTLE TO ME.
  
EPILOGUE TO ADELPHI.
  
EPILOGUE TO THE SAME.
  
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.
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SATIRICAL POETRY
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I.—AN ODE TO MR. WALPOLE.
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II.—UPON THE JEWEL OF THE TOWER. 1716.
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III.—MERCY: AN ODE.
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IV.—THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE KNIGHT TO THE KING.
 V. 
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. 
X.—ON THE STREET-ROBBERIES.
 XI. 
XI.—EPIGRAM.
 XII. 
XII.—ANACREONTIC.
 XIII. 
XIII.—ANOTHER.
 XIV. 
XIV.—AN EPIGRAM.
 XV. 
XV.—ANOTHER.
 XVI. 
XVI.—ANOTHER.
 XVII. 
XVII.—ANOTHER.
 XVIII. 
XVIII.—ANOTHER.
 XIX. 
XIX.—ANOTHER.
 XX. 
XX.—ANOTHER.
 XXI. 
XXI.—ANOTHER.
 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.
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EPIGRAMS.
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II.—A CONTRAST.
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III.—ON THE QUEEN'S HERMITAGE.
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V.—ANOTHER.
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VI.—ANOTHER.
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VII.—ANOTHER.
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EPIGRAMS: FROM THE GREEK.
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X.—EPIGRAM.
 XI. 
XI.—EPIGRAM.
 XV. 
XV.—EPIGRAM.
 XVI. 
XVI.—ANOTHER.
  
TO MR. DAVY.
  
TO W. COLMAN, ESQ., 1737.

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ELEGIAC VERSES.

HORACE, BOOK I. ODE 24.

I.

Freely to grief indulge the reins:
In mourning for a friend so dear
What bounds are placed? what weakness can appear?
Begin, Melpomene, the mournful strains;
The Muse to whom thy sovereign sire
A silver voice vouchsafes, and sadly pleasing lyre.
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II.

And must an endless sleep his eyelids bind?
Where shall the Virtues now his equal find?
Whither for shelter shall repair
Firm Faith, Astræa's near ally,
And Truth, without adorning, fair,
And unaffected Modesty?

III.

He fell lamented and deplored by all;
And most, O bard divine, by thee;
Who, vainly pious, on the gods dost call
Thy friend from death's embrace to free,
To' unbind the fix'd decrees of changeless destiny.

IV.

Could thee the Muse with sweeter sounds inspire
Than flow'd from Thracian Orpheus' magic lyre,
When savages around did throng,
And forests listen to his song;
Thou couldst not to the lifeless warmth restore,
That image of a man could breathe no more.

V.

When once on earth we cease to live,
Led to the shades by Hermes' rod,
No prayers can purchase a reprieve,
Or soften the relentless god.
What, then, but patience does remain?
That sole relief of each avoidless pain:
Since what is past is past, 'tis fruitless to complain.
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