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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,

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.

WROOTE: A HEROIC POEM.

TO JAMES OGLETHORPE, ESQ.

UPON BISHOP ATTERBURY'S BIRTH-DAY.

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.

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.

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?”

EPITAPHIUM VIVI.

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 CAPTAIN EARLE.

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SATIRICAL POETRY

I.

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.

XVI.

XVI.—ANOTHER.

XVII.

XVII.—ANOTHER.

XVIII.

XVIII.—ANOTHER.

XIX.

XIX.—ANOTHER.

XX.

XXI.

XXI.—ANOTHER.

XXII.

XXII.—A PANEGYRIC, 1731.

XXIII.

XXIII.—EPIGRAM.

XXIV.

XXIV.—A LITANY.

EPIGRAMS: FROM THE GREEK.

TO W. COLMAN, ESQ., 1737.

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XI.—EPIGRAM.

[From sunset to daybreak, when folks are asleep]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

From sunset to daybreak, when folks are asleep,
New watchmen are 'pointed the 'chequer to keep:
New locks and new bolts fasten every door,
And the chests are made three times as strong as before.

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Yet the thieves, when 'tis open, the treasure may seize;
For the same are still trusted with care of the keys.
From the night to the morning, 'tis true, all is right:
But who shall secure it from morning to night?