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:

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.

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:”

EPIGRAMS: FROM THE GREEK.

TO MR. DAVY.

TO W. COLMAN, ESQ., 1737.

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TO THE HONOURABLE THE LADY MARY HAY. 1731.

This small acknowledgment be paid;
Let me discharge my debt in metre.
Must it be sung as well as said?
Let Lady Mary make it sweeter.

I leave fine speeches till eighteen,
When warmer love may pay its duty:
In fairest light may then be seen
The Wit, the Virtue, and the Beauty.

Meanwhile she's innocent and gay,
Nor smallest scandal rests upon her:
Far more than man on earth can say
For Carolina's maids of honour.

Though her own hand the letter writ,
Our years will from suspicion save her;
And me from arrogance acquit,
Though hourly boasting of the favour.

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No slander can our conduct stain:
Indeed the case might something vary,
If twenty years from me were ta'en,
And ten were put to Lady Mary.

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TO THE HONOURABLE THE LADY MARY HAY. 1731.