A COLLECTION O F POEMS IN SIX VOLUME S. BY SEVERAL HAND S. LONDON: Printed by J. HUGHS, For J. DODSLEY, in PALL-MALL. M DCC LXV. THE PROGRESS of LOVE. I N Four E CLOGUE S. UNCERTAINTY. ECLOGUE I. POPER To Mr. POPE. to whose reed beneath the beechen shade, The Nymphs of Thames a pleas'd attention paid; While yet thy Mufe, content with humbler praise, Warbled in Windfor's grove her fylvan lays; Though now fublimely borne on Homer's wing, The crystal fountain, and the flow'ry plain? To the green margin of a lonely wood, Whose pendent shades o'erlook'd a filver flood, Young Damon came, unknowing where he stray'd, Full of the image of his beauteous maid: His flock far off, unfed, untended lay, To every favage a defenceless prey; No fenfe of int'reft could their mafter move, And every care seem'd trifling now but Love. But tho' his voice was mute, his looks complain'd; Ye Nymphs, he cry'd, ye Dryads, who fo long Have favour'd Damon, and infpir'd his fong; For whom, retir'd, I shun the gay reforts Of sportful cities, and of pompous courts; |