XXXXX SONNET XI. 'Oung, fair, and good! ah why should young and fair Your And good be huddled in untimely grave? Must so sweet flow'r fo brief a period have, Just bloom and charm, then fade and disappear? Yet our's the lofs, who ill alas can spare The bright example, which thy virtues gave; The guerdon thine, whom gracious heav'n did fave From longer trial in this vale of care. Reft then, sweet faint, in peace and honour rest, To thy dear mem'ry confecrate this verse, SON W whofe dear friendship in the dawning years Of undefigning Childhood first began, Through Youth's gay morn with even tenor ran, My noon conducted, and my evening cheers, Rightly doft thou, in whom combin'd appears Me moderate talents and a small estate Fit for Retirement's unambitious shade, But joyful see thee mingle with the Great, SON THOU, Prefid'st, the feuds of jarring Chiefs to 'swage, To check the boift'rous force of Party rage, Sometimes retiring from the toils of State, Thou turn'ft th' inftructive Greek or Roman page, Amid this feast of Mind, when Fancy's Child, Or the first man from Paradife exil'd Great MILTON fings, can aught my ruftic reed INDEX INDEX to the Second Volume. THE Progress of Love. In four Eclogues Soliloquy of a Beauty 97 Epigrams The Danger of Writing Verfe. By W. Whitehead, Tothe Honourable *** To Mr. Garrick Nature, to Dr. Hoadly The Youth and the Philofopher Ode to a Gentleman on his pitching a Tent, &c: On a Meffage Card The Je ne fcai Quoi 309 311 313 316 319 Ode on a diftant Profpect of Eton College. By Mr. Gray 320 Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat - 325 Monody on the Death of 2 Caroline. By R. Weft, Efq; 331 From Cælia to Cloe On a Fit of the Gout An Ode of Horace The Female Right to Literature On Shakespear's Monument at Stratford upon Avon A Song Chiswick - The Indifferent, from the Italian of Metaftafio The Triumph of Indifference, an Ode The Shepherd's Farewel to his Love Riddles Audivere, Lyce, &c. A Sonnet, imitated from the Spanish of Lopez de Vega The END of VOL. II. |