Liften, ye groves!-The Mufe prepares
A facred fong in Phrygian airs;
Such as the fwan expiring fings,
Melodious by Cäyfter's fprings,
While listening winds in filence hear,
And to the gods the mufic bear.

Celestial Mufe! attend, and bring
Thy aid, while I thy Phoebus fing:
To Phoebus and the Mufe belong
The laurel, lyre, and Delphic fong.
Begin, begin the lofty ftrain!
How Phoebus lov'd, but lov'd in vain;
How Daphne fled his guilty flame,
And scorn'd a god that offer'd fhame.
With glorious pride his vows fhe hears;
And heaven, indulgent to her prayers,
To laurel chang'd the nymph, and gave
Her foliage to reward the brave.

Ah! how, on wings of love convey'd,
He flew to clasp the panting maid!
Now, now o'ertakes!-but heaven deceives
His hope-he feizes only leaves.

Why fires my raptur'd breaft? ah! why,
Ah! whither strives my foul to fly?
I feel the pleafing frenzy ftrong,
Impulfive to fome nobler fong:
Let, let the wanton fancy play;
But guide it, left it devious ftray.

But oh! in vain, my Mufe denies
Her aid, a flave to lovely eyes.

VOL. XLIV.

X

Suffice

Suffice it to rehearse the pains

Of bleeding nymphs, and dying fwains;
Nor dare to wield the fhafts of Love,
That wound the gods, and conquer Jove.
I yield! adieu the lofty ftrain!
I am Anacreon once again:
Again the melting fong I play,
Attemper'd to the vocal lay:

See! fee! how with attentive ears
The youths imbibe the nectar'd airs!
And quaff, in lowery fhades reclin'd,
My precepts, to regale the mind.

CONTENTS

Part of the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Chap-

ters of Job: A Paraphrase.

153

Melancholy: An Ode, occafioned by the Death of

An Epistle to my Friend Mr. Elijah Fenton,

Author of Mariamne, a Tragedy. 1726.

A Dialogue between a Lady and her Looking-

Glass, while fhe had the Green-Sickness.

170

175

The Seat of War in Flanders, &c.

177

X 2

Το

To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Corn-
wallis, Baron of Eyre, Warden, Chief Juftice,
and Justice in Eyre of all his Majesty's Forests,
Chases, Parks, and Warrens, on the South Side

of Trent.

Page

186

The Rofe-Bud. To the Right Honourable the

Lady Jane Wharton.

189

Belinda at the Bath.

190

The Coy: An Ode.

191

To the Honourable Mrs. Elizabeth Townshend,"

afterwards Lady Cornwallis, on her Picture at

Rainham.

To Mr. Pope, on his Works. 1726.

192

194

Part of the Tenth Book of the Iliads of Homer.

In the Style of Milton.

198

A Paftoral. To a Young Lady, upon her leaving,

On the Birth-day of Mr. Robert Trefufis, when

Three Years old.

222

To a Gentleman of Seventy, who married a Lady

of Sixteen.

226

The Forty-third Chapter of Ecclefiafticus: A
Paraphrafe.

ibid.

The Conclufion of an Epilogue to Mr. Southern's

laft Play, called Money the Miftrefs.

232

The Parting: A Song. Set by Dr. Tudway,

Profeffor of Mufic in Cambridge,

ibid.

On

On a Flower which Belinda gave me from her

Bofom.

Page

233

The Story of Talus, from the Fourth Book of

Apollonius Rhodius. V. 1629.

236

From the Eleventh Book of the Iliads of Homer.

In the Style of Milton.

238

To Mrs. Eliz. M -t, on her Picture. 1716.
Prologue to Mr. Fenton's excellent Tragedy Ma-

riamne.

To Mr. A. Pope, who corrected my Verses. Monfieur Maynard imitated. To the Right Honourable the Lord Cornwallis.

242

244

246

248

On a Mischievous Woman.

249

The Coquette.

ibid.

The Widow and Virgin Sifters, being a Letter to

the Widow in London.

250

On the Death of my dear Friend Mr. Elijah Fen

ton.

1730.

252

A Poem on Death. To Thomas Marriot, Efq.

257

263

265

Courage in Love.

The Complaint. Cælia to Damon.

The Battle of the Gods and Titans; from the
Theogony of Hefiod; with a Defcription of
Tartarus, &c.

The Love of Jason and Medea; from the Third
Book, Verse 743, of Apollonius Rhodius.
Epiftola ad Amicum Rufticantem. Scripta Vere