Song

Song

56

ibid.

Occafioned by a Lady's having writ Verfes in Com-
mendation of a Poem which was written in Praise

of another Lady

Epigram written after the Deccafe of Mrs. Arabella
Hunt, under her Picture drawn playing on a

Lute

Song

57

ibid.

Hymn to Harmony, in Honour of St. Cecilia's
Day, 1701

58

ibid.

Verfes to the Memory of Grace Lady Gethin, occa-

fioned by reading her Book, intituled Reliquiæ

Gethinianæ

Epitaph upon Robert Huntingdon, of Stanton Har-

court, Efq. and Robert his Son

To Mr. Dryden on his Tranflation of Perfius

The Eleventh Satire of Juvenal

Prologue to Queen Mary, upon her Majesty's coming
to fee the Old Batchelor, after having feen the
Double Dealer

Epilogue at the Opening of the Queen's Theatre in

the Hay-market with an Italian Paftoral

Prologue to Pyrrhus King of Epirus

Epilogue to Oroonoko

Prologue to the Husband his own Cuckold

Prologue to A very good Wife, 1693

64

65

66

68

SI

83

84

85

87

Prologue to the Court, on the Queen's Birth-day,

1704

89

91

The

The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas. A Paftoral,

lamenting the Death of the late Lord Marquis of

Blandford

.93

To Cynthia, weeping, and not speaking. Elegy. 99

Amoret

Lesbia

Doris

To Sleep. Elegy

To Sir Godfrey Kneller, occafioned by L--- Y---'s

Picture

To a Candle. Elegy

Ovid's Third Book of the Art of Love

Of Pleafing; an Epiftle to Sir Richard Temple

A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount

Cobham, 1729

On Mifs Temple, afterwards Lady of Sir Thomas

Lyttelton

A Pindaric Ode, humbly offered to the Queen, on

the victorious Progrefs of her Majesty's Arms

under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough.

To which is prefixed a Difcourfe on the Pindaric

Ode

To the Right Honourable the Earl of Godolphin,

Lord High Treafurer of Great Britain. Pin-

daric Ode

164

An Impoffible Thing. A Tale

169

The Peafant in Search of his Heifer. A Tale,

after Mr. De la Fontaine

176

Homer's Hymn to Venus: Translated into English

Vérfe

177

THE

POE M S

O F

ELIJAH FENTO N.

BY

FENTO N.

ELIJAH

To the Right Honourable CHARLES, Earl of Orrery, thefe POEMS are most humbly dedicated by his Lordship's most obliged, and most obedient Servant, E. FENTON.

A N

ODE TO THE SUN,

For the NEW YEAR,

"Augur, & fulgente decorus arcu
"Phoebus accept ufque novem Camoenis,
66 Qui falutari levat arte feffos

"Corporis artus ;

"Alterum in Luftrum meliufque femper
"Proroget ævum."

I.

BEGIN, celeftial fource of light,

To gild the new-revolving sphere; And from the pregnant womb of night, Urge on to birth the infant year.

1707.

HOR.