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:”

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.

XXIV.

EPIGRAMS: FROM THE GREEK.

TO MR. DAVY.

TO W. COLMAN, ESQ., 1737.

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

“And shakes his head at Dr. Swift.”

I

When Jonathan his wit displays
In satire and sometimes in praise,
Much I admire his matchless gift,
Yet shake my head at Doctor Swift.

II

When he discovers, vain and mean,
The' amour betwixt a fair and dean;
Though private life I scorn to sift,
I shake my head at Doctor Swift.

III

Whene'er he leaps religion's bound,
When rattling oaths in volleys sound;
My hands and eyes I then uplift,
And shake my head at Doctor Swift.

IV

When he with lewdness lards his jokes,
In ordure and in urine pokes;
To' avoid a puke I make a shift,
But shake my head at Doctor Swift.

V

If e'er, forgetting Ireland's cries,
In England he attempt to rise,
I'll grieve to see the paltry drift,
And shake my head at Doctor Swift.

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