DYER'S POEMS.
XXV. To Delia, with some flovers ; complain-
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The Ruins of Rome
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The Fleece, a Poem in four Books
71 XXVI. Delcribing the sorrow of an ingenious mind,
The Country Walk
94 on the melancholy event of a licentious amour 19
The Enquiry,
95 II. ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c.
Epistle to a famous, Painter
To Aaron Hill on his Poem called Gideon 96
Rural elegance : an ode to the late Duchess of So-
merset.
'The Choice, to Mr. Dyer, by Aaron Hil, Esq. ib.
Written 1750
120
To Mr. Savage, son-of the late Earl Rivers
Ode to memory, 1748
97
123
Epiftle to a Friend in Town,
ib,
The Princess Elizabeth: a ballad allading to a
To Mr. Dyer, by Clio,
story recorded of her, when she was prisoner at
Woodstock, 1554
ib.
Ode to a young lady, somewhat too solicitous about
SHENSTONE'S POEMS.
her manner of expresiion
124
Nancy of the vale. A ballad
ib.
ELEGIES ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. Ode to indolence. 1750
125
A Prefatory Eisay on Elegy,
Ode to health. 1730
ib.
99
ELEGY I. He arrives at his retirement in the coun- Toa lady of quality, fitting up her library, 1738 126
try, and takes occasion to expatiate in praise of Upon a visit to the same, in winter. 1748 ib,
fimplicity. To a friend -
An irregular ode after fickness.
1749
ib.
II. On posthumous reputation. To a Friend 103
To a lady, with some coloured patterns of flowers,
III. On the untimely death of a certain learned ac-
October 7, 1736
127
quaintance
ib. Written in a Hower book of my own colouring,
IV. Ophelia's urn. To Mr. Gravęs
104
designed for Lady Plymouth. 1753-4
123
V. He compares the, turbulence of love with the Anacreontic. 1738
ib.
tranquility of friendship. To Melissa his friend ib. Ode: Written 1739
129
VI. To a lady on the language of birds
105
The dying kid
ib.
VII. He describes his vition to an acquaintance, 15. Songs, written chiefly between the years 1737 and
VIII. He describes his early love of poetry, and its 1742
119-130-133
consequences. To Mr. Graves, 1745
A parody
ib.
X. He describes his disinter eftness to friend ib, The halcyon
134
X. To fortune, suggesting his mutive for repining
Ode
ib,
at her difpenfations
107
A pastoral ode, to the honourable Sir Richard
X1. He complains how soon the pleasing novelty
Lyttleton
ib.
of life is over. To Mr. Jago
108
Verses, written towards the close of the year 1748,
XII. His recantation
ib. to Wil jam Lyttelton, Esq.
XIII. To a friend, on some slight occafion ef-
Love and music, written at Oxford, when young iba
tranged from him
109 Comparison
137
XIV. Declinining an invitation to visit foreign Ode to Cynthia, on the approach of spring ib,
countries, he takes occafion to intimate the advan- Jemmy Dawson, a ballad; written about the time
tages of his own.
To Lord 'Temple
ib.
of his execution, in the year 1745
XV. In memory of a private family in Worcester- A pastoral ballad, in four parts.
hire
119-140
XVI. He suggests the advantages of birth to a per- III, LEVITIES, or PIECES of HUMOUR.
fon of merit, and the folly of a supercilioufness Ftort and Phil; a decision for the ladies 141
that is built upon that role foundation
XVII. He indulges the suggestions of spleen: an
Stanzas to the memury of an agreeable lady, buried
in marriage to a person undeserving her io,
elegy to the winds
II2
Colemira. A culinary ecloguie
ib,
XVIII. He repeats the song of Collin, a dir-
The rape of the trap. A ballad, 1737
cerning shepherd; lamenting the state of the On certain pastorals
143
woollen manufactory
113 On Mr. C. of Kidderminster's poetry ib.
XIX. Written in Spring, 1743
114 To the virtuosos
ib.
XX. He compares his humble fortune with the dif- | The extent of cookery
ib.
treffes of o.hers; and his subjection to Delia, with | The progress bf'advice. A common cafe ib.
the miserable servitude of an African slave ib,
A Ballad
144
XXI. Taking a view of the country from his re-
Slender's ghcit
ib,
tirement, he is led to meditate on the character The Invidinus
ib.
of the ancient Boi o's. Writen at the time of a
The price of an equipage
ib.
moured tax upon luxury. 1746
115 Hint from Voiture
145
XXII. Written in the year -, when the rights Inscription
ib.
of sepulture were fo frequently violated
116
To a friend
ib.
XXIII. Refiections fuggeited by his ficuation. 117 The poet and the dun.
XXIV. He takes occalion, from the fate of Eleanor Written at an Ion at Flenley
1741
ib.
of Bretagne, to fusselt the imperfect pleasures A Simile
146
of a solitary lite
119 The charms of precederce. A tale