Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons by Edmond Waller.
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- Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons by Edmond Waller.
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- Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
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- [London] :: Printed for H. Herringman, and are to be sold by J. Knight and F. Saunder ...,
- 1686.
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Contents
- frontispiece
- title page
- The Printer TO THE READER:
- TO THE KING On His NAVY.
- Of the danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews.
- Of His Majesties receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death.
- To the Queen, occasioned upon sight of Her Majesties Picture.
- Vpon His Majesties repairing of Pauls.
- The Country to my Lady of Carlisle.
- The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning.
- In answer to one who Writ against a fair Lady.
- On my Lady Dorothy Sidneys Picture.
- To Vandike.
- Of the Lady who can sleep when she pleases.
- Of the mis-report of her being Painted.
- Of her passing through a crowd of People.
- The Story of Phoebus and Daphne applied.
- Fabula Phoebi & Daphnis.
- Of Mrs. Arden.
- To Amoret.
- On the Head of a Stag.
- To a Lady in a Garden.
- The Misers Speech in a Masque.
- On the Friendship betwixt two Ladies.
- Of her Chamber.
- Of Loving at first sight.
- The Self Banished.
- SONG.
- Thirsis, Galatea.
- The Battel of the Summer-Islands.
- SONG.
- Of Love.
- To Phillis.
- To Phillis.
- SONG.
- SONG.
- To Amoret.
- To my Lord of Falkland.
- For Drinking of Healths.
- On my Lady Isabella playing on the Lute.
- To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing.
- Of the marriage of the Dwarfs.
- Loves farewel.
- From a Child.
- On a Girdle.
- The Apology of Sleep.
- At Pens-hurst.
- Another.
- To my Lord of Leicester.
- To a very young Lady.
- SONG.
- SONG.
- On the discovery of a Ladies Painting.
- To a Lady from whom he received a Silver Pen.
- On a Brede of divers Colours, woven by four Ladies.
- To my Lord of Northumberland upon the death of his Lady.
- To my Lord Admiral of his late Sickness and Recovery,
- Ala Malade.
- Of the Queen.
- Vpon the Death of my Lady Rich.
- To the Queen-Mother of France upon her Landing.
- To the mutable Fair.
- Of Salley.
- Puerperium.
- Of a Lady who writ in praise of Mira.
- To one married to an old Man.
- To Flavia Song.
- The Fall.
- Of Silvia.
- The Budd.
- Upon Ben. Johnson.
- To Mr. George Sands, on his translation of some parts of the Bible.
- Chlorus and Hilas. Made to a Sarabran.
- Under a Ladies Picture.
- In Answer Of Sir John Suckling's Verses.
- To a Friend of the different success of their Loves.
- An Apology for having loved before,
- To Zelinda.
- On Mr. John Fletcher's Plays.
- To Chloris.
- On St. James's Park, as lately improved by His Majesty.
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To Sir William D'avenant upon his Two fir
Books of Gondibert, written in rance - To my worthy Friend Mr. Wase, the Translator of Gratius.
- To the King, upon His Majesties happy Return.
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To my Lady Morton on New-years-day,
16
0. at the Louvre in Paris. -
Of a fair Lady pl
ying with a Snake. - To his worthy Friend Master E'velyn, upon his Translation of Lucretius.
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Part of the 4th Book of Virgil
, beginning - Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea.
- Epitaph to be written under the Latine In∣scription upon the Tomb of the Onely Son of the Lord, Andover.
- To the Queen, upon Her Majesties Birth-day, after Her Happy Recovery from a Dan∣gerous Sickness.
- Instructions to a PAINTER, For the Drawing of the Posture and Progress of His Majesties Forces at Sea, under the Command of His Highness-Royal: Together with the Battel and Victory obtain'd over the DUTCH, Iune 3. 1665.
- TO THE KING.
- TO A Friend of the AUTHORS, A Person of HONOVR:
- To Mr. Henry Lawes, who had then newly set a Song of mine in the Year 1635.
- Vpon Her Majesties New Buildings at Somerset-House.
- On the Picture of a fair Youth taken after he was dead.
- Epigram upon the Golden Medal.
- Of a Tree cut in Paper.
- To a Lady from whom he received the forego∣ing Copy which for many years had been lost.
- The Night-piece, or a Picture drawn in the dark.
- Of English Verse.
- Sung by Mrs. Knight, to Her Majesty on Her Birth-day.
- To his Worthy Friend Sir Thomas Higgons, upon his Translation of the Venetian Triumph.
- Epitaph.
- Of Her Royal Highness Mother to the Prince of Orange, and of Her Portraict writ∣ten by the late Dutchess of York while She lived with Her.
- To the Dutchess of Orleans, when She was taking Leave of the Court at Dover.
- Written on a Card that Her Majesty tore at Ombra.
- To the Dutchess, when he presented this Book to Her Royal Highness.
- These Verses were writ in the Tasso of Her Royal Highness.
- Upon our late Loss of the Duke of Cambridge.
- Translated out of Spanish.
- Of the Lady Mary, &c.
- To the Servant of a Fair Lady. This Copy of Verses being omitted in the former Edition.
- Vpon the Earl of Roscommon's Translation of Horace De Arte Poetica: And of the Use of Poetry.
- Epitaph on Sir George Speke.
- Of Her Majesty on New-years Day, 1683.
- A Presage of the Ruine of the Turkish Empire, Presented to His Majesty on His Birth-Day.
- OF Divine Love.
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OF
Divine Poesie,
TWO CANTOS,
Occasioned upon sight of the 53d Chapter of
Isaiah, turn'd intoVerse by Mrs.Wharton. - Of the Paraphrase on the Lords Prayer Written by Mrs. Wharton.
- Some Reflections of his upon the several Pe∣titions in the same Prayer.
- Of the last Verses in the Book.
- THE TABLE.