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VI. To a Lady. On the Language of Ode to a young Lady, somewhat too solicitous
Birds
269 about her Manner of Expression
285
VII. He describes his Vision to an Ac- Nancy of the Vale. A Ballad
ib.
quaintance
ib. Ode to Indolence. 1750 ..............
286
VIII. He describes his early Love of Po- Ode to Health. 1730
ib.
etry, and its Consequences. To To a Lady of Quality, fitting up her Library,
Mr. Graves, 1745
270 1738.
ib.
IX. He describes his Disinterestedness Upon a Visit to the same, in Winter, 1748 287
to a Friend
ib. An irregular Ode after Sickness, 1749
ib.
X. To Fortune, suggesting his Motive To a Lady, with some coloured Patterns of
for repining at her Dispensations. 271 Flowers, October 7, 1736
288
XI. He complains how soon the pleasing Written in a Flower-Book of my own Colour-
Novelty of Life is over. To Mr.
ing, designed for Lady Plymouth, 1753-4... 289
Jago ......
ib. Anacreontic, 1758.-Twas in a cool Aonian
XI. His Recantation ........
272
glade
ib.
XUI. To a Friend, on some slight Occa- Ode. Written 1739,-'Twas not by beauty's
siou estranged from him
ib. aid alone
ib.
XIV. Declining an Invitation to visit fo- The dying Kid.........
ib.
reign Countries, he takes Occasion
to intimate the Advantages of his
SONGS, WRITTEN CHIEFLY BETWEEN THE YEARS 1737
To Lord Temple
AND 1742.
XV. In Memory of a private Family in
I. I told my nymph, I told her true...... 290
Worcestershire
273
IT. The Landscape
ib.
XVI. He suggests the Advantages of Birth III, Ye gentle nymphs and generous dames. ib.
to a Person of Merit, and the
IV. The Sky-Lark
ib.
Folly of a Superciliousness that is
V. On every tree, in every plain
291
built upon that sole Foundation... 274 VI. The Attribute of Venus...
ib.
XVII. He indulges the Suggestions of
VII. 1741.–The lovely Delia smiles again. ib.
Spleen. An Elegy to the Winds, 275 VIII. 1742.-When bright Roxana treads
XVIII. He repeats the Song of Collin, a dis-
ib.
cerning Shepherd ; lamenting the
IX. 1743.- Valentine's Day
ib.
State of the woollen Manufactory. ib. X. 1743.-The fatal bours are wondrous
XIX. Written in Spring, 1743
276
ib.
XX. He compares his bumble Fortune
XI. 1744.—Perhaps it is not love, said I.. 292
with the Distress of others; and
XII. 1744.-O'er desert plains, and rushy
his Subjection to Delia with the
ib.
miserable Servitude of an African
XII. The Scholar's Relapse
ib.
Slave ...
277 XIV. The Rose. Bud
ib.
XXI. Taking a View of the Country from
XV. Winter. 1746
ib.
his Retirement, he is led to medi- XVI. Daphne's Visit
293
tate on the Character of the an- XVII. Adieu, ye jovial youths, who join...... ib.
cieat Britons. Written at the XVIII. When bright Ophelia treads the green. ib.
Time of a rumoured Tax upon
XIX. Yes, these are the scenes where with
Luxury, 1746..
ib.
Iris I stray'd. Imitated from the
XXII. Written in the Year – when the
French
ib.
Rights of Sepulture were so fre- A Parody
293
quently violated
278 The Halcyon
ib.
XXIII. Reflections suggested by his Situa- Ode.--So dear my Lucio is to me
294
279 | A pastoral Ode To the honourable Sir Ri-
XXIV. He takes occasion from the fate of chard Lyttleton
ib.
Eleanor of Bretagne, to suggest Verses written towards the Close of the Year
the imperfect Pleasures of a soti- 1748, to William Lyttleton, Esq.
295
tary Life
280 Love and Music. Written at Oxford, wben
XXV, To Delia, with some Flowers ; com-
young
ib.
plaining how much his Benevo- Comparison
296
lence suffers on Account of his Ode to Cynthia, on the Approach of Spring ... 297
humble Fortune
ib. Jemmy Dawson, a Ballad ; written about the
XXVI. Describing the Sorrow of an ingenu. Time of his Execution, in the Year 1745... ib.
ons Mind, on the melancholy A pastoral Ballad, in four Parts, 1743.
Event of a licentious Amour 281 Part I. Absence
298
II. Hope
ib.
III. Solicitude
299
ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c.
IV. Disappointment....
ib.
Rural Elegance. An Ode to the late Dutchess
of Somerset ..
282
LEVITIES ; OR, PIECES OF HUMOUR.
Ode to Memory. 1748 ...
264 Flirt and Phil; a Decision for the Ladies 500
The Princess Elizabeth: a Ballad, alluding to Stanzas to the Memory of an agreeable Lady,
a Story recorded of her, when she was Pri- buried in Marriage to a Person undeserving
soner at Woodstock, 1554 ....
ib. ber
ib.
b