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The Third Volume of the Works of Mr. William Congreve

containing Poems upon Several Occasions
Congreve, William (1670-1729)

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EPISTLE TO THE Right Honourable CHARLES Lord HALIFAX, &c.
  
THE Mourning Muse OF ALEXIS.
  
TO THE KING, On the Taking of NAMURE.
  
THE Birth of the Muse.
  
ON Mrs. ARABELLA HUNT, SINGING.
  
Priam's Lamentation and Petition TO ACHILLES, For the Body of his Son HECTOR.
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THE LAMENTATIONS OF Hecuba, Adromache, and Helen, Over the dead Body of HECTOR.
  
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Andromache's Lamentation.
  
Hecuba's Lamentation.
  
Helen's Lamentation.
  
PARAPHRASE UPON HORACE. ODE XIX. LIB. I.
  
STANZA'S In Imitation of Horace, Lib. II. Ode XIV.
  
In Imitation of HORACE. Ode IX. Lib. I.
  
SONG.
  
THE RECONCILIATION.
  
ABSENCE.
  
SONG.
  
SONG in DIALOGUE, For TWO WOMEN.
  
SONG.
  
THE PETITION.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
Occasioned on a LADY's, HAVING Writ Verses in Commendation of a Poem which was written in Praise of another Lady.
  
EPIGRAM,
  
SONG.
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A HYMN TO HARMONY. In Honour of St. CECILIA's Day, MDCCI.
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VERSES To the Memory of Grace Lady Gethin,
  
EPITAPH
  
TO Mr. DRYDEN, ON HIS TRANSLATION OF PERSIUS.
  
The ELEVENTH Satire of Juvenal.
  
PROLOGUE TO QUEEN MARY,
  
EPILOGUE
  
PROLOGUE TO Pyrrhus King of Epirus.
  
EPILOGUE TO OROONOKO.
  
PROLOGUE to the Husband his own Cuckold.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE COURT; ON THE QUEEN's Birth-Day, 1704.
  
THE TEARS OF AMARYLLIS for AMYNTAS.
  
TO CYNTHIA, Weeping and not Speaking.
  
AMORET.
  
LESBIA.
  
DORIS.
  
TO SLEEP.
  
TO Sir Godfrey Kneller, Occasion'd By L---y ---s Picture.
  
To a CANDLE.
  
OVID's Third Book OF THE ART of LOVE.
  
OF PLEASING; AN EPISTLE TO Sir RICHARD TEMPLE.
  
A PINDARIQUE ODE, Humbly Offer'd to the QUEEN,
  
To the Right Honourable the Earl of GODOLPHIN, Lord High-Treasurer of GREAT BRITAIN. PINDARIQUE ODE.
  
HOMER's HYMN TO VENUS

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O Harmony , to thee we sing,
To thee the grateful Tribute bring
Of Sacred Verse, and sweet resounding Lays;
Thy Aid invoking while thy Pow'r we praise.
All Hail to thee
All-pow'rful Harmony!
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Wise Nature owns thy undisputed Sway,
Her wond'rous Works resigning to thy Care;
The Planetary Orbs thy Rule obey,
And tuneful Roll, unerring in their way,
Thy Voice informing each melodious Sphere.

CHORUS.

All Hail to thee
All-pow'rful Harmony!
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