He arrives at his retirement in the country, and takes ELE GY VI. To a lady on the language of birds. - ELEGY VII. He defcribes his vifion to an acquaintance. ELEGY VIII. He defcribes his early love of poetry, and its confequences. To Mr. G--. 1745. ELE GY IX. He defcribes his diftinterestedness to a friend. ELE GY X. To fortune, fuggefting his motive for repining at her dif- ELE GY XI. - 37 He complains how foon the pleafing novelty of life is over. ELEGY His recantation. XII. ELE GY XIII. 40 To a friend, on fome flight occafion eftranged from him. 45 ELEGY XIV. Declining an invitation to vifit foreign countries, he takes ELE GY XV. - 47- In memory of a private family in Worcestershire. 51 He fuggefts the advantages of birth to a perfon of merit, and the folly of a fupercilioufnefs that is built upon - 56 ELE- He compares his humble fortune with the diftrefs of Taking a view of the country from his retirement, he is Defcribing the forrow of an ingenuous mind, on the melancholy event of a licentious amour. II. 97 CODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c. Rural elegance: an ode to the late duchess of Somerset. Written 1750. Ode to memory. 1748. 105 117 The princess Elizabeth: a ballad alluding to a story recorded of her, when she was prifoner at WoodStock, 1554. 120 Ode to a young lady, fomewhat too follicitous about To a lady of quality, fitting up her library. 1738. 133 135 An irregular ode after sickness. 1749. 137 Written in a flower book of my own colouring, defigned A paftoral ode, to the honourable Sir Richard Lyttelton. 174 Verfes written towards the clofe of the year 1748, to William Lyttelton, Efq. 181 Jemmy Dawson, a ballad; written about the time of his execution, in the year 1745. A paftoral ballad, in four parts. Written 1743. III. 185 189 LEVITIES, or PIECES of HUMOUR. Flirt and Phil; a decifion for the ladies. 201 Stanzas to the memory of an agreeable lady, buried in marriage to a perfon undeferving her. Colemira. A culinary eclogue. The rape of the trap. A ballad. 1737. On certain paftorals. 202 203 207 210 On Mr. C of Kidderminster's poetry. ibid. |