Admir'd SALOPIA! that with venial pride Eyes her bright form in SEVERN's ambient wave, Fam'd for her loyal cares in perils try'd, Her daughters lovely, and her ftriplings brave: Ah! midft the reft, may flowers adorn his grave, Whose art did first these dulcet cates display! A motive fair to learning's imps he gave, Who chearless o'er her darkling region stray; "Till reafon's morn arife, and light them on their way. CON I. ELEGIES on feveral Occafions. A Prefatory essay on elegy. ELEGY I. Page 15 He arrives at his retirement in the country, and takes occafion to expatiate in praife of fimplicity. To a friend. 29 ELEGY II. On pofthumous reputation. To a friend. ELEGY III. 31 On the untimely death of a certain learned acquaintance. 33 To a lady on the language of birds. ELEGY VII. He defcribes his vifion to an acquaintance. ELEGY VIII. He defcribes his early love of poetry, and its consequences. To Mr. G He defcribes his difinterestedness to a friend. ELEGY X. 45 47 To fortune, fuggefting his motive for repining at her difpenfations ELEGY XI. 50 He complains how foon the pleafing novelty of life is over. To Mr. J--. 7 53 ELEGY His recantation. ELEGY XII. To a friend, on fome flight occafion eftranged from him. 57 Declining an invitation to vifit foreign countries, he takes E LE GY XV. 59 In memory of a private family in Worcestershire. 62 He fuggefts the advantages of birth to a person of merit, E LE GYXVII. 66 He compares his humble fortune with the diftrefs of others; Taking a view of the country from his retirement, he is led to meditate on the character of the ancient Britons. ELEGY XXIV. To Delia, with fome flowers; complaining how much his benevolence fuffers on account of his humble fortune. 101 II. ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c. III The princess Elizabeth: a ballad alluding to a story recorded of her, when he was prifoner at. Woodflock, 1554. 124 Songs, written chiefly between the year 1737 and 1742. A paftoral ode, to the honourable Sir Richard Lyttelton. 169 Femmy Darfon, a ballad; written about the time of his execution, in the year 1745. A paftoral ballad, in four parts. Written 1743. Page 179 183 III. LEVITIES, or PIECES of HUMOUR. Flirt and Phil; a decifion for the ladies. 195 Stanzas to the memory of an agreeable lady, buried in mar riage to a perfon undeferving her. 196 Colemira. A culinary eclogue. 197 The rape of the trap. A ballad. 1737. *200 On certain paftorals. 204 On Mr. C of Kidderminster's poetry. ibid. To the virtuofos. ibid. IV. MORAL PIECES. The judgment of Hercules. The progress of taste: or, the fate of delicacy. 219 220 227 229 308 320 |