A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands: [pt.5]

INDEX to the Fifth Volume.

• RURAL Elegance: An Ode, 1750 Page 1
• Inscription near a Sheep-cote 13
• Nancy of the Vale. A Ballad 16
• Ode to Indolence, 1750 19
• Ode to Health, 1730 21
• To a Lady of Quality, fitting up her Library, 1738 24
• Upon a Visit to the same in Winter, 1748 26
• An irregular Ode after Sickness, 1749 28
• Anacreontick, 1738 33
• Ode. Written 1739 34
• The Dying Kid 36
• Love Songs, and lighter Pieces, written between the Year 1737 and 1743
  • Song 1. 38
  • 2. The Landskip ib.
  • 3. 39
  • 4. The Sky-Lark 40
  • 5. ib.
  • 6. The Attribute of Venus 41
• The Rape of the Trap, a Ballad; written at College 1736 42
• A Simile 45
• The Ceremonial 46
• The Beau to the Virtuosos 47
• Verses to a Friend 49
• Written at an Inn on a particular Occasion 51
• The Price of an Equipage 52
• A Ballad 53
• The Extent of Cookery 54
• The Progress of Advice. A common Case 55
• Slender's Ghost 56
• Upon Riddles 57
• Verses to a Writer of Riddles 58
• To * * * * 60
• Song 61
• To Lady Fane on her Grotto at Basilden, 1746 62
• The Invisible ib.
• The Pepper-box and Salt-seller. A Fable 63
• Written near Bath, 1755 67
• Verses to William Shenstone, Esq on receiving a Gilt Pocket-Book, 1751 70
• ...

• The Swallows.
  • Written September, 1748 72
  • Part II. Written April, 1749 75
• Valentine's Day 77
• The Scavengers. A Town Eclogue. In the Manner of Swift 78
• Hamlet's Soliloquy, imitated 82
• Transcrib'd from the Rev. Mr. Pixel's Parsonage Garden near Birmingham, 1757 83
• Malvern Spa, 1757. Inscribed to Dr. Wall 84
• Some Reflections upon hearing the Bell toll for the Death of a Friend 87
• The Robin: An Elegy. Written at the close of Autumn, 1756 90
• An Epitaph 92
• Ut Pictura Poesis 93
• Vacuna 95
• On J. W. ranging Pamphlets 98
• Epithalamium 102
• To a Gentleman, on the Birth-day of his first Son 104
• On two Friends born on the same Day 105
• A Winter Thought 107
• Song 110
• Verses spoken at Westminster School 111
• A Letter to Sir Robert Walpole 117
• An Epistle from the Elector of Bavaria, to the French King, after the Battle of Ramillies 119
• To the Duke of Marlborough 130
• An Ode on Miss Harriet Hanbury at six Years old 132
• A Song upon Miss Harriet Hanbury, address'd to the Rev. Mr. Birt 134
• To Mr. Garnier and Mr. Pearce of Bath. A grateful Ode, in return for the extraordinary Kindness and Humanity they shewed to me and my eldest Daughter, now Lady Essex, 1753 136
• Ode to Death. Translated from the French of the King of Prussia 138
• The Hymns of Dionysius: Translated from the Greek 143
• A Satire in the Manner of Persius, in a Dialogue between Atticus and Eugenio 147
• ...

• To Mrs. Bindon at Bath 156
• Mrs. Bindon's Answer 157
• Sir Charles's Reply ibid.
• To a Lady, who sent Compliments to a Clergyman upon the Ten of Hearts 158
• The Grotto 159
• The Bee, the Ant, and the Sparrow: A Fable 169
• Ode on a Storm 174
• Isaiah xxxiv. 177
• Isaiah xxxv. 183
• Woodstock Park. A Poem 188
• A Fit of the Spleen. In Imitation of Shakespear 202
• Hymn to Miss Laurence, in the Pump-Room. BATH, 1753 204
• A Letter to Corinna from a Captain in Country Quarters 210
• A Tale 213
• The Wish 219
• The Bears and Bees. A Fable 221
• A Fragment 222
• The Camelion: A Fable after Monsieur de la Motte 223
• Immortality: or, the Consolation of Human Life. A Monody 226
• To the Memory of a Gentleman, who died on his Travels to Rome 239
• Captain T— of Battereau's Regiment in the Isle of Skie to Captain P— at Fort Augustus 240
• To Mr. J. H. at the Temple, occasioned by a Translation of an Epistle of Horace, 1730 244
• To the Rev. Mr. J. S. 1731 248
• Answer to the foregoing, 1731 251
• Another 253
• Cupid and Chloe 254
• The Poet to his false Mistress 256
• On Mr. * * *, Schoolmaster at * * *. 257
• KAMBROMYOMAXIA: or the Mouse-Trap; being a Translation of Mr. Holdsworth's Muscipula, 1736 258Verses under the Prints of Mr. Hogarth's Rake's Progress, 1735 269
• ...

• On the Friendship of two young Ladies, 1730 275
• Chloe's unknown Likeness, 1738 276
• The Bird of Passage, 1749 277
• Verses said to be fixed on the Gate of the Louvre at Paris, 1751 279
• Chloe resolved, A Ballad 280
• Epilogue to Shakespear's first Part of King Henry IV. 281
• Prologue to Comus 283
• Epigrams from Martial 285
• A very gallant Copy of Verses, (but somewhat silly) upon the Ladies, and their fine Clcaths at a Ball 288
• Another on the same Subject, written with more Judgment, but fewer good Manners 289
• The Brewer's Coachman 290
• Female Caution 291
• Orthodox Advice 293
• Hull Ale 293
• Epigram 294
• Another 295
• The Mistake ibid.
• A Fragment of Chaucer 296
• Upon an Alcove, now at Parson's Green ibid.
• Plain Truth 302
• Ode to Venus, from her Votaries of the Street 305
• An Epigram 306
• The Poet's Importance 307
• To Polly Laurence, quitting the Pump. Bath, Jan. 1756 308
• Ode, to a Lady in London 309
• Ode to Spring 311
• Ode to Cynthia 312
• Ode to a Thrush 313
• Elegy 314
• A Poem to the Memory of Thomas, late Marquiss of Wharton, Lord Privy Seal 316
• Paraphrase on a French Song 323
• The Tomb of Shakespear. A Vision 325