Poems on Several Occasions [T42624]

DMI number:

758

Publication Date:

1748

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T42624

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111705968

Shelfmark:

BL - 11641.bb.46

Full Title:

POEMS | ON | Several Occasions. | [double rule] | [ornament] | [double rule] | [i] DUBLIN: [/i] | Printed by S. POWELL, for the AUTHOR. | [rule] | M DCC XLVIII.

Place of Publication:

Dublin

Genres:

Collection of occasional pieces

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[2] 1-102 pp.

Bibliographic details:

ESTC notes subscription list but this does not appear in the BL / ECCO copy.

Comments:

Attributions: All unattributed poems in the collection description 'by the author' are attributed under speculation to Mary Goddard.

References:

A. C. Elias, 'Male Hormones and Women's Wit: The Sex Appeal of Mary Goddard and Laetitia Pilkington' Swift Studies 9 (1994) 5-16.

Related People

Author:

Mary Goddard

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

ESTC: Attribution from A.C. Elias, Jr., in "Swift Studies" 9 (1994), p. 7.

Printer:

S. Powell

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Love inspired me first to sing

Page No:

[2pp]

Poem Title:

Preface

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Too long your sex its sprightly thoughts employs

Page No:

pp.1-4

Poem Title:

To the Author of the Following Poems.

Attribution:

R.S.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Oft had I begged my charming friend

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pp.5-6

Poem Title:

On the New Star, 1737.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How ardently did Bella vow

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pp.6-7

Poem Title:

To Bellamira

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sun that setting gilds the sky

Page No:

pp.7-8

Poem Title:

To Fidelio

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Bacchus god of rosy wine

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

On the Death of Captain Lewis Folliot.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Assist me each heroic muse

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p.10

Poem Title:

The Lyre. From Anacreon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Little but too powerful tie

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

The Wedding-Ring, a Pambaic.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me thou partial god of love

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

Silvia

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fain would I to Fidelio tell

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pp.12-13

Poem Title:

To Fidelio

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For ever jarring yet for ever friends

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p.13

Poem Title:

On the Lawyers.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Happy the songsters of the grove

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p.14

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh happy swains did they know how to prize

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pp.15-22

Poem Title:

O fortunatos nimium, &c. paraphras'd

Attribution:

By a young Gentleman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I faint I die poor Strephon cries

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

From the French.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If punishment must be the lot

Page No:

pp.22-23

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

With better grace might D-e

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p.23

Poem Title:

To Lilliputia, on her saying I was very ugly.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Should some soft youth unskilled in arts

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pp.24-25

Poem Title:

On a Lady --

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Would you not Damon blame the man

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p.24

Poem Title:

To Mr. B - on his saying he wou'd not be content with a Lady's Heart without her Person.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Venus reclined in Ida's grove

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p.25

Poem Title:

From the French

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Being of beings by whose will

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p.26

Poem Title:

On my Birth-Day

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Bella see the ice in chains

Page No:

pp.27-28

Poem Title:

To Bellamira

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail to the ever happy day

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p.28

Poem Title:

On my Wedding-Day.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Hear the greatest wish I have

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pp.29-30

Poem Title:

To Bellamira

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

This morning to pen ink and paper I flew

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

To Miss Forbes

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Arise and live our great restorer said

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p.30

Poem Title:

Wrote after my Recovery from a Fever.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Come Bellamira let us bring

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pp.31-33

Poem Title:

The Garland.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

When the plumed race first sought to make a king

Page No:

p.31

Poem Title:

On Mr. Pope's writing the Dunciad.

Attribution:

By Mr. D - .

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Venus with peculiar grace

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

On Belinda's Picture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The little wanton god of love

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

The Nineteenth Idyllium of Theocritus.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Come Selima my charming friend and share

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

The Invitation.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

When envy with malicious spite

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

To Selima, on her Recovery from the Cholic.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

With what an undeserved grace

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

To Mr. Hussy, on drawing my Picture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye muses in measures well chosen

Page No:

pp.37-40

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

At length in Selima I find

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

To Selima, on her Birth-Day

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let joy and pleasure tune the lay

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

To the same on her Birth-Day

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See Selima the evening sky

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pp.43-44

Poem Title:

To Selima, on her Birth-Day

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Shall I pull down the full orbed moon

Page No:

pp.44-45

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To feed my flock to watch my fold

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

A Song, the two last Stanzas mine.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Vainly you strive to charm mankind

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

Epigrams. To Miss - in a Riding-Habit.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You say nought but the fear of hell

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

To the Same

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See my Fidelio prithee see

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p.47-49

Poem Title:

To Fidelio in Winter

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The man that shall Dalinda take

Page No:

p.47

Poem Title:

Dalinda.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh with what pleasure panting

Page No:

pp.49-51

Poem Title:

Song. On four Ladies bathing....Tune, Vaux-Hall.

Attribution:

by Robin Good-Fellow, Poet Laureat to Oberon King of the Fairies.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'll tell you a story a story most merry

Page No:

pp.52-54

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In spite of the warm desires of her heart

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p.52

Poem Title:

Epigram

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Ah woe's me poor Willy said

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pp.54-56

Poem Title:

Song

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Had famed Arachne's work been such as thine

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p.56

Poem Title:

To Miss Dawson, on her beautiful Needle-Work.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sun had tinged the skies with gold

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pp.57-58

Poem Title:

Truth Told.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Foe to my spirits south east wind

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pp.58-59

Poem Title:

On Lord Chesterfield's being detained by contrary winds.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While I remained the darling of your heart

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pp.60-61

Poem Title:

A Translation from a Translation of the Ninth Ode of Horace. Bellamira and Arpasia

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah wretched Dido in thy married state

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pp.61-62

Poem Title:

[An Epigram ('Infelix Dido, nulli bene nupta marito')] English'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Happy when I see thy eyes

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p.62

Poem Title:

[From Ausoneus ('Qui te videt Beatus est')] English'd.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Mourn all ye muses every grace deplore

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pp.63-64

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. C - 's Linnet

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Could I like Homer or like Virgil pen

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pp.64-65

Poem Title:

On his Majesty's Success at the Battle of Dettingen

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

In vain the seas with swelling billows rise

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pp.65-66

Poem Title:

Silvia to Strephon, aboard the cruiser.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

No more my love no more my friend

Page No:

pp.66-67

Poem Title:

Silvia to Strephon, who on seeing her weep, said she no longer loved him

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Accept my much esteemed friend

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p.68

Poem Title:

To Mr. C--r, with an embroider'd Cap.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Clelia let's hail the blooming spring

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

A Song. Tune, Three-top'd Hill.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye solemn lines whose gloomy kind relief

Page No:

pp.70-83

Poem Title:

Lord Guilford Dudley's Answer to Lady Jane Gray.

Attribution:

'By Mr. K -', p.70 'W.K.', p.83

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Midas did transmuting power possess

Page No:

p.84

Poem Title:

On a Miser

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While all around a grateful people pays

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

To Mr. T— P—r, Esq; on Gratitude

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To praise the ungenerous I in vain

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p.85

Poem Title:

On being desired to write something on Mr. —

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Why do unthinking mortals fear

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pp.85-86

Poem Title:

Wrote at a Funeral

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While all my soul's with anxious care oppressed

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pp.86-87

Poem Title:

On Lysander

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sad Colinet to verdures gay

Page No:

pp.87-89

Poem Title:

A Song

Attribution:

by Mr. K—.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What a constant round of pain

Page No:

pp.89-91

Poem Title:

Life a Bubble.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Jolly D wouldst thou know

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pp.91-96

Poem Title:

Julia and Belinda

Attribution:

By Mr. S —

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Worse critic of bad poet made

Page No:

pp.96-97

Poem Title:

On a bad Poet's turning Critick

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thus much we learn from ancient story

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p.98

Poem Title:

Answer to the foregoing.

Attribution:

By Mr. B—.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail sacred hill where all my wishes rest

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

Hill of Howth

Attribution:

By Mr. K —

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If beauty be or not is in dispute

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pp.99-100

Poem Title:

To Miss E— L —

Attribution:

By Mr. K —.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Gay as the season of the year

Page No:

pp.100-101

Poem Title:

To Clelia. On her Birth-Day.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou dreadful ugly meagre fiend

Page No:

p.101

Poem Title:

To Miss L—, in her Illness

Attribution:

by Mr. K—.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From all the noisy cares of town

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

Song. Tune, glide swiftly on ye silver Streams.

Attribution:

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Not attributed