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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:
 I. 
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.
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ANACREONTICS TO MY WIFE.
 I. 
I.
 II. 
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.
 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. 
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.
 VI. 
VI.—ANOTHER.
 VII. 
VII.—ANOTHER.
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EPIGRAMS: FROM THE GREEK.
 X. 
X.—EPIGRAM.
 XI. 
XI.—EPIGRAM.
 XV. 
XV.—EPIGRAM.
 XVI. 
XVI.—ANOTHER.
  
TO MR. DAVY.
  
TO W. COLMAN, ESQ., 1737.

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WEDLOCK: A SATIRE.

Thou tyrant, whom I will not name,
Whom heaven and hell alike disclaim;
Abhorr'd and shunn'd, for different ends,
By angels, Jesuits, beasts, and fiends!
What terms to curse thee shall I find,
Thou plague peculiar to mankind?
O may my verse excel in spite
The wiliest, wittiest imps of night!
Then lend me for a while your rage,
You maidens old and matrons sage:
So may my terms in railing seem
As vile and hateful as my theme.
Eternal foe to soft desires,
Inflamer of forbidden fires,
Thou source of discord, pain, and care,
Thou sure forerunner of despair,
Thou scorpion with a double face,
Thou lawful plague of human race,
Thou bane of freedom, ease, and mirth,
Thou deep damnation upon earth,
Thou serpent which the angels fly,
Thou monster whom the beasts defy,
Whom wily Jesuits sneer at too;
And Satan (let him have his due)
Was never so confirm'd a dunce
To risk damnation more than once.
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That wretch, if such a wretch there be,
Who hopes for happiness from thee,
May search successfully as well
For truth in whores and ease in hell.
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