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The poems (1969)
Collins, William (1721-1759)
[section]
1.
1 Sonnet
2 Persian Eclogues
1.
ECLOGUE THE FIRST
2.
ECLOGUE THE SECOND
3.
ECLOGUE THE THIRD
4.
ECLOGUE THE FOURTH
3.
3 An Epistle:
4.
4 A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline
5.
5 Song.
6.
6 Written on a Paper which Contained a Piece of Bride Cake given to the Author by a Lady
Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects
7.
7 Ode to Pity
8.
8 Ode to Fear
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EPODE
ANTISTROPHE
9.
9 Ode to Simplicity
10.
10 Ode on the Poetical Character
11.
11 Ode, Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746
12.
12 Ode to Mercy
13.
13 Ode to Liberty
STROPHE
EPODE 2
ANTISTROPHE
SECOND EPODE
14.
14 Ode, to a Lady on the Death of Colonel Ross in the Action of Fontenoy
15.
15 Ode to Evening
16.
16 Ode to Peace
17.
17 The Manners.
18.
18 The Passions.
19.
19 Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr Thomson
20.
20 An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, Considered as the Subject of Poetry
DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS
21.
21 [Lines on Restoration Drama]
22.
22 [Lines of Composite Authorship]
23.
23 [Lines Addressed to James Harris]
24.
24 [Lines Addressed to Jacob Tonson]
25.
25 [Lines Addressed to a Fastidious Critic]
26.
26 [Lines Addressed to a Friend about to Visit Italy]
27.
27 [Stanzas on a Female Painter]
28.
28 ‘Ye genii who, in secret state’
29.
29 To Simplicity
30.
30 ‘No longer ask me, gentle friends’
31.
31 [Lines on the Music of the Grecian Theatre]
LOST AND DOUBTFUL POEMS
36.
36 On the Use and Abuse of Poetry
37.
37 The Bell of Arragon
38.
38 On a Quack Doctor
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38 On a Quack Doctor
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.
Seventh son of Doctor John,
Physician and Chirurgeon,
Who hath travelled wide and far,
Man-Midwife to a Man of War,
In Chichester hath ta'en a house,
Hippocrates, Hippocratous.’
The poems (1969)
