28 AN 1952

THE

POEMS

OF

SHENSTONE, VOL. II.—AND MALLET.

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Chiswick:

FROM THE PRESS OF C. WHITTINGHAM,

COLLEGE HOUSE.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE, VOL. II.

To Health, 1730.......

ODES.

To a Lady of Quality, fitting up her Library, 1738.

Anacreontic, 1738.

Written 1739

Upon a Visit to a Lady of Quality, in Winter, 1748..

To Memory, 1748..

Written towards the Close of the Year 1748.

An Irregular Ode, after Sickness, 1749......

Rural Elegance. To the late Duchess of Somerset...

To Indolence, 1750...

To a young Lady, somewhat too solicitous about her

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Manner of Expression ........................

Written in a Flower Book of my own colouring.

A Pastoral Ode. To the Hon. Sir Richard Lyttelton... 40

To Cynthia, on the approach of Spring.

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To a Lady, with some coloured Patterns of Flowers.....

Song. I told my nymph, I told her true........

Song. The Landscape....

Song. Ye gentle nymphs and generous dames

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A Ballad.......

A Ballad

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Song. The fatal hours are wondrous near...

Song. The lovely Delia smiles again

Song.-Perhaps it is not love, said I

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Song.-O'er desert plains, and rushy meers..

Song. Winter........

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Song. The Scholar's Relapse..

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Song. The Rose-Bud..

Song. Daphne's Visit.....

Song.-Adieu, ye jovial youths! who join.

Song. Imitated from the French.......

Song. When bright Ophelia treads the green...

Song. When first, Philander, first I came......................

Song. The Halcyon.......

Epitaph........

DAVID MALLET.

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LIFE of Mallet, by Dr. Johnson..........................

Dedication to Lord Mansfield.........

Dedication to the Duke of Marlborough

Amyntor and Theodora.-Preface......

Amyntor and Theodora; or, the Hermit...

William and Margaret......

Edwin and Emma.....

The Excursion, in Two Cantos.......

MISCELLANIES.

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Verses presented to the Prince of Orange in 1734........ 188

Verses on Dr. Frazer's rebuilding Part of the University

of Aberdeen......

A Fragment.........

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Cupid and Hymen; or, the Wedding-Day.......................

Truth in Rhyme, addressed to a certain Noble Lord...... 202

The Reward; or, Apollo's Acknowledgments..

Tyburn; to the Marine Society......

Epigram on a certain Lord's Passion for a Singer......... 224

Simile in Prior, applied to the same Person...