SONNET XI.

Oung, fair, and good! ah why fhould young and fair

Young

And good be huddled in untimely grave?

Muft fo fweet flow'r fo brief a period have, Juft 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, fweet faint, in peace and honour reft,
While our true tears bedew thy maiden hearse,
Light lie the earth upon thy lovely breast;
And let a grateful heart with grief opprefs'd

To thy dear mem'ry confecrate this verse,
Though all too mean for who deferves the best.

SON.

SONNE T. XII.

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 chears,

Rightly doft thou, in whom combin'd appears
Whate'er for Public Life completes the Man,
With active Zeal ftrike out a larger plan,
No useless friend to Senators and Peers:

Me moderate talents and a small eftate
Fit for Retirement's unambitious shade,
Nor envy I who near approach the throne;

But joyful fee thee mingle with the Great,
See thy deferts with due diftinction paid,
And praife thy lot, contented with my own."

SON

To the Right Hon. Mr., with the foregoing

SONNETS.

HOU, who fucceffive in that honor'd feat

THO

Prefid'ft, the feuds of jarring Chiefs to 'Twage,
To check the boift'rous force of Party rage,
Raife modeft worth, and guide the high debate,

Sometimes retiring from the toils of State,
Thou turn'ft th' inftructive Greek or Roman page,
Or what our British Bards of later age
In fcarce inferior numbers can relaté :

Amid this feaft of Mind, when Fancy's Child,

Sweet SHAKESPEAR, Wraps the foul to virtuous deed,
When SPENSER Warbling tunes his Doric lays,

Or the firft Man from Paradife exil'd I

Great MILTON fings, can ought my rustic reed
Prefume to found, that may deserve thý práise ??

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INDEX

INDEX to the Second Volume.

HE Progrefs of Love. In four Eclogues. Page
Soliloquy of a Beauty

Blenheim

Epistle to Dr. Ayscough

Epifle to Mr. Poyntz

Verfes under Mr. Poyntz's Picture

18

21

27

33
36

To the Same

To Mr. West at Wickham

To Mifs Luey F-

To the fame, with Hammond's Elegies
To the Same

A Prayer to Venus in her Temple at Stowe

To the Same. On her pleading want of Time.

To the Same

To the Same

To the Same :

To the Same with a New Watch

An Irregular Ode writ at Wickham in 1746.
To the Memory of the fame Lady. A Monody.
Verfes, making Part of an Epitaph on the fame Lady
On the Abufe of Travelling. A Canto in Imitation of Spen-
fer. By Mr. West

The Inftitution of the Order of the Garter. By the fame

Epiftle to Lord Cornbury

An Epiftle

Epifle to a Lady

Epifle to Mr. Pope

82

107
168

187

200

66

67

69
81

207

To the Honourable*

To Mr. Garrick

Nature, to Dr. Hoadly.

Epigrams

The Danger of Writing Verfe. By Mr. W.Whitehead 243

The Youth and the Philofopher

252

254

258

260

Ode to a Gentleman on his pitching his Tent, &c.

262

On a Meffage Card

265

The Je ne fcai Quoi

267

Ode on a diftant Profpect of Eton College

Ode

Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat

Monody on the Death of 2. Caroline. By R.Weft, Efq; 275

A Pipe of Tobacco, in Imitation of fix feveral Authors 281
Ode to the Hon. C. Y.

From Cælia to Cloe

268

271

273

288

290

On a Fit of the Gout

292

An Ode of Horace

The Female Right to Literature

On Shakespear's Monument at Stratford upon Avon 301

A Song

ibid.

A Sonnet, imitated from the Spanish of Lopez de Vega 321

Sonnets

The END of VOL. II.

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