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  • To Silvia
    Silvia, let us from the crowd retire,
    For what to you and me
    15 lines
  • Song
    The nymph in vain bestows her pains
    That seeks to thrive where Bacchus reigns;
    8 lines
  • The Bird And The Arras
    By neer resemblance see that Bird betray'd
    Who takes the well wrought Arras for a shade
    21 lines
  • Consolation
    See, Phoebus breaking from the willing skies,
    See, how the soaring Lark, does with him rise,
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • The Apology
    'Tis true I write and tell me by what Rule
    I am alone forbid to play the fool
    20 lines
  • An Apology For My Fearfull Temper
    Tis true of courage I'm no mistress
    No Boadicia nor Thalestriss
    84 lines
  • An Invitation To Dafnis
    When such a day, blesst the Arcadian plaine,
    Warm without Sun, and shady without rain,
    70 lines
  • Ardelia To Melancholy
    At last, my old inveterate foe,
    No opposition shalt thou know.
    43 lines
  • The Unequal Fetters
    Cou'd we stop the time that's flying
    Or recall itt when 'tis past
    20 lines
  • The Tree
    Fair tree! for thy delightful shade
    'Tis just that some return be made;
    32 lines
  • To A Husband
    This is to the crown and blessing of my life,
    The much loved husband of a happy wife;
    17 lines
  • On Myselfe
    Good Heav'n, I thank thee, since it was design'd
    I shou'd be fram'd, but of the weaker kinde,
    12 lines
  • "Trail all your pikes..."
    Trail all your pikes, dispirit every drum,
    March in a slow procession from afar,
    8 lines
  • A Letter ToThe Same Person
    Sure of Success, to You I boldly write,
    Whilst Love do's ev'ry tender Line endite;
    31 lines
  • A Tale Of The Miser And The Poet
    A WIT, transported with Inditing,
    Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing;
    109 lines
  • The Man And His Horse
    Within a Meadow, on the way,
    A sordid Churl resolv'd to stay,
    33 lines
  • Life's Progress
    How gayly is at first begun
    Our Life's uncertain Race!
    45 lines
  • Moral Song
    Would we attain the happiest State,
    That is design'd us here;
    16 lines
  • Glass
    O Man! what Inspiration was thy Guide,
    Who taught thee Light and Air thus to divide;
    14 lines
  • The Dog And His Master
    NO better Dog e'er kept his Master's Door
    Than honest Snarl, who spar'd nor Rich nor Poor;
    28 lines
  • The Phoenix
    A Female Friend advis'd a Swain
    (Whose Heart she wish'd at ease)
    16 lines
  • A Song
    Persuade me not, there is a Grace
    Proceeds from Silvia's Voice or Lute,
    12 lines
  • Jealousy
    VAIN Love, why do'st thou boast of Wings,
    That cannot help thee to retire!
    12 lines
  • Three Songs
    LOVE, thou art best of Human Joys,
    Our chiefest Happiness below;
    37 lines
  • The Prevalence Of Custom
    A Female, to a Drunkard marry'd,
    When all her other Arts miscarry'd,
    43 lines
  • Mussulman's Dream
    Where is that World, to which the Fancy flies,
    When Sleep excludes the Present from our Eyes;
    39 lines
  • The Shepherd Piping To The Fishes
    A Shepherd seeking with his Lass
      To shun the Heat of Day;
    46 lines
  • Love, Death, And Reputation
    Reputation, Love, and Death,
    (The Last all Bones, the First all Breath,
    54 lines
  • There's No To-Morrow
    Two long had Lov'd, and now the Nymph desir'd,
    The Cloak of Wedlock, as the Case requir'd;
    21 lines
  • Jupiter And The Farmer
    When Poets gave their God in Crete a Birth,
    Then Jupiter held Traffick with the Earth,
    30 lines
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