He arrives at his retirement in the country, and takes

occafion to expatiate in praise of fimplicity. To a

friend.

12.

ELEGY II.

16

On pofthumous reputation. To a friend.

EL EGY III.

He compares the turbulence of love with the tranquillity

of friendship. To Meliffa his friend.

23

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ELE GY VI.

To a lady on the language of birds.

ELE GY VII.

He defcribes his vifion to an acquaintance.

EL EGY VIII.

25

27

He defcribes his early love of poetry, and its confequences.

To Mr. G-—. 1745.

ELE GY IX.

He defcribes his diftinterestedness to a friend.

ELE GY X.

31

34

To fortune, fuggefting his motive for repining at her dif

penfations.

ELEGY XI.

37

He complains how foon the pleafing novelty of life is over.

To a friend, on fome flight occafion estranged from him. 45

ELE GY XIV.

Declining an invitation to vifit foreign countries, be takes

occafion to intimate the advantages of his own. To

Lord Temple.

47

ELE GY XV.

In memory of a private family in Worcestershire. 51

ELEGY XVI.

He fuggefis the advantages of birth to a person of merit,

and the folly of a fupercilioufnefs that is built upon

that fole foundation.

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56

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CONTENTS.

ELE GY XVII.

He indulges the fuggestions of spleen: an elegy to the

winds.

ELEGY XVIII.

61

He repeats the fong of Collin, a difcerning fhepherd;

lamenting the state of the woollen manufactury.

ELE GY

XIX.

Written in fpring 1743.

ELE GY

XX.

65

69

He compares his humble fortune with the distress of

others; and his fubjection to Delia, with the mi-

ferable fervitude of an African flave.

ELE GY XXI.

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73

Taking a view of the country from his retirement, he is
led to meditate on the characters of the ancient Britons.
Written at the time of a rumoured tax upon luxury.
1746.

ELEGY XXII.

77.

Written in the year when the rights of fepulture

were fo frequently violated.

ELE GY XXIII.

Reflections fuggefted by his fituation.

ELE GY XXIV.

81

85

He takes occafion from the fate of Eleanor of Bretagne,

to fuggeft the imperfect pleasures of a folitary life. 90

ELEGY XXV.

To Delia, with fome flowers; complaining how much his

benevolence fuffers on account of his humble fortune. 94

ELE-

Defcribing the forrow of an ingenuous mind, on the

melancholy event of a licentious amour.

II.

97

ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c.

Rural elegance: an ode to the late duchess of Somerfet.

Written 1750.

Ode to memory. 1748.

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105

117

The princess Elizabeth: a ballad alluding to a story

recorded of her, when she was prifoner at Wood-

Stock, 1554

120

Ode to a young lady, fomewhat too follicitous about

To a lady of quality, fitting up her library. 1738. 133

Upon a vifit to the fame in winter. 1748.

An irregular ode after fickness. 1749.

137

Written in a flower book of my own colouring, defigned

for lady Plimouth. 1753-4.

Anacreontic. 1738.

Ode. Written 1739.

The dying kid.

I

142

143

145

147

Songs,

A paftoral ode, to the honourable Sir Richard Lyt #elton.

174

Verfes written towards the clofe of the year 1748, to

William Lyttelton, Efq.

181

Femmy Dawson, a ballad; written about the time of his

execution, in the year 1745. ⠀

A paftoral ballad, in four parts. Written 1743.

III.

185

189

LEVITIES, or PIECES of HUMOUR.

Flirt and Phil; a decifion for the ladies.

201

Stanzas to the memory of an agreeable lady, buried

in marriage to a perfon undeferving her.

Colemira. A culinary eclogue.

The rape of the trap. A ballad. 1737.

202

203

207