“ More to instruct thee, when five years shall end, “ I will again to visit thee descend, Bringing thy beauteous fon to charm thy sight, " Whose godlike form shall fill thee with delight; “ Him will I leave thenceforward to thy care, “ And will that with him thou to Troy repair: “ There, if enquiry shall be made, to know “ To whom thou dost fo bright an offspring owe; “ Be sure thou nothing of the truth detect, “ But ready answer make as I direct. “ Say of a fylvan nymph the fair youth came, “ And Calycopis call his mother's name. " For should'st thou boast the truth, and madly own " That thou in bliss hadst Cytherea known, “ Jove would his anger pour upon thy head, “ And with avenging thunder strike thee dead. “ Now all is told thee, and just caution given, “ Be secret thou, and dread the wrath of heaven.” She said, and sudden foar'd above his fight, Cutting through liquid air her heavenward fight. All hail, bright Cyprian Queen! thee first I praise, Then to some other power my lays. CON cd CO N T E N T S OF CON GRE V E'S POEM S. 20 E PISTLE to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Page 3 The Mourning Muse of Alexis. A Pastoral, lamenting the Death of Queen Mary 5 To the King, on the taking of Namur 13 The Birth of the Muse. To the Right Honour able Charles Lord Halifax On Mrs. Arabella Hunt singing 29 Priam's Lamentation and Petition to Achilles for the Body of his Son Hector 33 The Lamentations of Hecuba, Andromache, and Helen, over the dead Body of Hector 37 Paraphrase upon Horace, Ode 19. Lib. 1. Stanzas in Imitation of Horace, Lib. 2. Ode 140 45 In Imitation of Horace, Ode 9. Lib. 1. Song The Reconciliation 52 Absence 53 Song ibid. Song in Dialogue, for two Women 54 Song 55 The Petition ibid. Song 44 48 51 58 Song 56 Song ibid. Occasioned by a Lady's having writ Verses in Com mendation of a Poem which was written in Praise 57 Epigram written after the Decease of Mrs. Arabella Hunt, under her Picture drawn playing on a ibid. ibid. Verses to the Memory of Grace Lady Gethin, occa fioned by reading her Book, intituled Reliquiæ Gethinianæ Epitaph upon Robert Huntingdon, of Stanton Harcourt, Esq. and Robert his Son 65 To Mr. Dryden on his Translation of Persius 66 The Eleventh Satire of Juvenal 68 Prologue to Queen Mary, upon her Majesty's coming to see the Old Batchelor, after having seen the Double Dealer 81 Epilogue at the Opening of the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-market with an Italian Pastoral Prologue to Pyrrhus King of Epirus Epilogue to Oroonoko Prologue to the Husband his own Cuckold Prologue to A very good Wife, 1693 Prologue to the Court, on the Queen's Birth-day, 1704 64 91 The 83 84 85 87 89 The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas. A Pastoral, lamenting the Death of the late Lord Marquis of To Cynthia, weeping, and not speaking. Elegy. 99 To Sir Godfrey Kneller, occasioned by L--- Y---'s Ovid's Third Book of the Art of Love Of Pleasing ; an Epistle to Sir Richard Temple 142 A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount On Miss Temple, afterwards Lady of Sir Thomas 1494 A Pindaric Ode, humbly offered to the Queen, on the victorious Progress of her Majesty's Arms under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough. To which is prefixed a Discourse on the Pindaric To the Right Honourable the Earl of Godolphin, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain. Pin- The Peasant in Search of his Heifer. A Tale, 177 5 |