Page L'Il Penseroso Page ib. 720 and approaching the shore Dryden 722 Roue 722 Thomson 720 Description of an antient Cathedral Congreve 722 IV. Ihitehead 721 Description of a Triumph la Wat Philosophy really consists Thomson 721 A Shepherd's Life happier than a King's Scipio restoring the captive Princess to her The Blessings of Peace-- Providence ib. 721 No Difficulties insuperable to the Prudent BOOK IV. SENTIMENTAL, LYRICAL, AND LUDICROUS. Milton 723 Garden of Adonis---Devastation which Time ib. 724 makes in this Garden---Descriptionof Jupiter , ib, 726 --Guyon conducted by Mammon through a ib. 727 Description of Despair and her Speech 752 FAIRFAX's TASSO. Alecto 754 Spirits-- Pain-Hypocrisy--The Lady re- Image of Armida and Attendants,enraged at proving Coinus-Soanetto the Nightingale Rinaldo's hewing down the Myrtle to dis.. ib. 730 Description of Armida's wonderful Parrot 755 VARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS FROM SPENSER. GLOVER'S LEONID AS. Leonidas's Address to his Countrymen - An- swer to the Persian Ambassador - Pathetic 733 Farewell of Leonidas to his wife and Family 755 Characters of Teribazus and Ariana --Ariana 734 and Polydorus come by Night into the Persian Camp 756 Bowles 758 737 • 738 SONNETS; by Mrs. SMITH. ten at the Close of Spring--Shouid the lone 740 Wanderer--To Night--To Tranquillity-- Written in the Church-yard at Middleton 741 in Sussex---Wriiten at' Penshurst, in Au- 766 Anon. 767 Idleness- Ignorance - Inconstancy-Incon- Extract from a Poem on his own approaching Life - Lion - Love --- Madness ---Mastiff- Sonnet to twilight Miss Williams 768 ib. 768 Mountain — Mutability--- Night ib. 768 Occasion--- Palace of Sleep --- Tyger --- Winds On the Recovery of a Lady of Quality from Sight---Slander ---Storm--- Superstition 748 Ode to Pity Suspicion --- Venus--- Temple of Venus 749 Ode to Fear ib. 769 Ode on the Poetical Character ib. 770 Ode,written in the Year 1746-Ode to Mercy Duessa weeping over her Enemy, compared -Ode to Liberty to a Crocodile; and a Description of Ode to a Lady, on the Death of Colonel 750 Charles Ross, in the Action at Fontenoy. Description of Lucifera's Palace Lucifera Written in May, 1745 ib, 773 ascending her Coach ---Description of Ode to Evening --Ode to Peace - The Man- Prince Arthúr in his Habiliments of War -- Description of Diana with her Nymphs, The Passions. An Ode to Music returned from the Chace, and preparing to The Paiper's Funeral Description of a Garden --Description of the The Village Infidel ib. 777 By an error of the press this poem is attributed to Mr. Lisle Bowles instead of Dr. Lisle, seve. e to Mercy. sant Page Page Bishop 797 ib. 798 ib. 798 The Library ib. 799 ib. 800 ib. 80 801 ib. 781 | Whitsuntide. Written at Winchester College, 806 ib. 782 An Elegy on the Death of a mad Dog Goldsmith 806 807 Cunningham 808 Soume Jenyns 808 Lansdown 783 Right Honorable the Lord Lovelace, then ib. 809 Cowper 811 ing how he went farther than he intended, tion-Mutual Forbearance necessary to ib. 812 ib. 812 ib. 812 Peter Pindar 813 Brumston 814 Pennington 815 Cowper 790 The School-Boy. By the Rev. Mr. Maurice, Berenger 790 817 790 Written in a Lady's Ivory Table-book, 1699 Suift 819 819 ib. 791 A Description of the Morning. 1709 820 Jago 791 A Description of a City Shower. In Imitation 820 On the little House by the Church-yard of 821 821 822 824 825 826 793 upon lending his House to the Bishop of 827 828 ib. 794 Bormount, upon praising her Husband to 828 829 Peter Pindar 796 Riddles, by Dr.Swift and his friends, written Samuel Bishop, Head Master of Merchant On Gold - On a Corkscrew --On a Circle- 880 On an Echo - On a Shadow in a Glass -On Time-On the Vowels On Snow-On a 831 Temple 796 To Quilca, a Country-House of Dr. Sheridan, The Vanity of Wealth in no very good Repair. 1725 - The To Miss on her giving the Author a grand Question debated, Whether Hamil. Gold and Silk Net-work Purse of her own con's Bawn should be turned into a Barrack weaving On the Death of Dr. Swift, occasioned by read. Epitaph on Sir Thomas Hanmer ing the following Maxim in Rochefoucauit, Sonnets. Written at Wynslade in Hampshire “ Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, “ nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui Written in a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monas. ticon — Written at Stonehenge — Written (hurchill 838 after seeing Wilton-House - To Mr. Gray A poor Woman's Lamentation on her Son be- Sonnet -On King Arthur's Round Ta. ing slain in a field of Battle 841 ble at Winchester-To the River Lodon ib. 904 Lines on a Ball given to pronote the Silk Ma- The Old Cheese On the late Queen of France 842 A Country Bumpkin and the Razor-seller ib. 907 842 The Bald-pated Welchman and the Fly Somerrilie 907 ib. 908 The Frogs' Choice ib, 908 ib. 909 8133 Epitaph on Miss Basnet, in Pancras Church- Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene. M. ode Thomson 910 Four Sonnets Bowles 845 SONGS, BALLADS, &c. 912939 939 9-10 940 Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne 947 949 955 ib. 894 Barbara Allen's Cruelty Human Frailty ib. 894 The Frolicsome Duke, or Tinker's Good For- -957 958 959 ib. 895 founded on a real Fact that happened in the Grainger 959 Percy 960 ib. 896 Alcanzor and Zaida, a Moorish Tale ib. 961 ib. 896 King Edward IV. and the Tanner of Țam- The Country Parson's Blessings 963 897 Old and young Courtier 'Tho Retrospect of Life 966 897 | The Braes of Yarrow, in Imitation of the an, 966 Thomson 898 Childe Waters Goldsmith 898 The King and Miller of Mansfield Lines from Dr. Barnard, Dean of Derry, to The Witches' Song Dr. Goldsmith and Mr. Cumberland 900 The Fairies' Farewell On Dr. Goldsinith's Characteristical Cookery. Unfading Beauty Jupiter and Mercury. A Fable ib: 900 A Pastoral Ballad, In Four Parts Sluenstone 973 Birron 975 A Receipt for stewing Vea! Parnell 976 'Che Midsummer's Wish. An Ode ib. 902 The Barber's Nuptials Winter. An (de ib. 903 Lucy and Colin ib. 903 Songs. By Dihdin The Natural Beauty. To Stella ib. 903 PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES, &c. 961 963 967 971 979 984 ELEGANT EXTRACTS. PO ETICA L. BOOK THE FIRST. SACRED AND MORAL. 9 1. An Address to the Deity. Thomson. And ye five other wand'ring fires that more FATHE "ATHER of light and life! Thou goon In mystic dance, not without song, resound His praise, who out of darkness call'd up light SUPREME! O teach me what is good. Teach me THYSELF! Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue And nourish all things; let your ceaxless change Sacred, substantial, never-fuling bliss ! [pure ; Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise $?. Adam and Eve, in a Morning Ily mn, call Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, From hill or streaming lake, dusky or grey, u por all the Parts of the Creation to join with In honor to the world's great Author rise! them in extolling their common Maker. Whether to deck with clouds th' uncolor'd sky, Milton. Or wet the thirsty carth with falling showers, Tuese are Thy glorious works, Parent of good, Rising or falling still advance his praise. Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself howwondrous then! Brcathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, yePines, His praise, yeWinds,that from four quarters blow, l'aspeakable, who sitt'st above these Heavens With every plant in sign of worship ware. To us invisible, or dimly scen Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his Thy goodness beyond thought, and pow'r divine. Join voices, all ye living Souls ; ye Birds, praise. Speak ve who best can tell, ye sons of light, That singing up to IIcaven's gate ascend, Angels ; for ye behold him, and with songs Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. And cural symphonies, day without night, Ye that in waters glide, and he that walk circlet, praise him in thy sphere, Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceald, $ 3. On the Deity. In thy etemal course, both when thou climb'st, Mrs. Barbauld. And when high noon hast gain d,and when thou I READ God's awful name emblazon'd high, fall'st. With golden letters on th' illumin'd sky; Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun, now fly'st Nor less the mystic characters I see, With the lix'd stars, fix'd in their orb that flies, Wrought in cach Power, inscribd on ev'ry troc; In ev'ry leaf thize trembles to the breeze Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily Uranks employ, That tastes those gifts with joy. In every creature own thy forming power, Through every period of my life In each event thy providence adore. Thy goodness I'll pursue ; Divide thy works no more, Thy mesey shall adore. Then when the last, the closing hour draws Through all eternity to Theo nigh, A joyful song I'll raise, 5 Hymn on Providence. Addison; Teach me to fix my ardent hopes on high, And, having liv'd to the, in ihce to die. The Lord iny pasture shall prepare, His presence shall my wants supply, § 4. llymn on Gratitude. Addison. And guard me with a watchful eye; When all thy mercics, O my God, My noon-day walks he shall attend, My rising soul surveys ; And all my inidnight hours defend. Transported with the view, I'm lost When in the sultry glebe I faint, lo wonder, love, and praise. Or on the thirsty mountains pant; To fertile vales, and dewy meads, O how shall words with equal warmth My weary wand'ring steps he leads ; The gratitude declare Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow, That glows within my ravish'd heart? Amid the verdant landskip flow. But thou canst read it there. Tho' in the paths of Death I tread, With gloomy horrors everspread, Vy stedfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still; And hung upon the breasi. Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, To all my weak complaints and cries And guide me through the dreadful shade. Thy mercy lent an ear, Tho' in á bare and rugged var, Ere yet ry feeble thoughts had learnt "To forin themselves in pray's. Through devions lonely wiles I stray, Thy bounty shall niy pains beguile: Unnumber'd comforts to my soul The barren wilderness shall smile, Thy tender care bestow'd, With sudden greens and herbage crown'd; Before my infant heart conceiv'd And streains shall murmur all around. $6. Another Ilymn, from the beginning of the Thine arm unseen convey'd me safe, 19th Psalm. Addison. And led me up to man. The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths, lı gently clear'd mny way, And spangled Ileavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim « And through the pleasin, snares of vice, Th' unwearicd sun, from day to day, More to be fear'd than they. Does his Creator's pow'r display, The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wond'rons tale, Thy hounteous hand with worldly bliss And nightly to the list'ning earth, llas made my cup run o'er, Repeats the story of her birth : And in a kind and faithful friend Whilst all the stars that round her burn, Has doubled all my store. and all the planets in their turn, Confira |