Yon house, erected on the rifing ground,
With tempting afpect drew me from my road;
For plenty there a refidence has found,
And grandeur a magnificent abode.

(Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor!)
Here craving for a morfel of their bread,
A pamper'd menial forc'd me from the door,
To feek a fhelter in an humbler shed,

Oh! take me to your hofpitable dome,

Keen blows the wind, and piercing is the cold!
Short is my paffage to the friendly tomb,
For I am poor and miserably old.

Should I reveal the fource of every grief,

If soft humanity e'er touch'd your breast, Your hands would not with-hold the kind relief, And tears of pity could not be represt.

fee:

Heaven fends misfortunes-why fhould we repinę?
'Tis Heaven has brought me to the state you
And your condition may be foon like mine,
The child of forrow-and of misery.

A little farm was my paternal lot;

Then, like the lark, I fprightly hail'd the morn; But ah! oppreffion forc'd me from my cot,

My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn.

My

My daughter-once the comfort of my age!
Lur'd by a villain from her native home,
Is caft abandon'd on the world's wide stage,
And doom'd in scanty poverty to roam.

My tender wife-fweet foother of my care!
Struck with fad anguish at the stern decree,
Fell-ling'ring fell a victim to despair,

And left the world to wretchedness and me.

Pity the forrows of a poor old man!

Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door,
Whofe days are dwindled to the shortest span,

Oh! give relief-and Heaven will bless your store.

INDEX

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THIRD VOLUME.

MARY Queen of Scots, an Elegy. By William Julius

Mickle.

Hengift and May, a Ballad. By the same.

Knowledge, an Ode. By the fame.

Pollio, an Elegiac Ode. By the fame.
An Epifle to Curio. By Dr. Akenfide.
Love, an Elegy. By the fame.
Ode to Sleep. By the fame.

A British Philippic. By the fame

Hyma to Science. By the fame.

65

Ode to the Mufe. By James Scott, M. A.

70

Ode to Friendship. By the fame.

74

Ode to Mifs B, with a fet of colours. By the fame.

77

The Vanity of Human Life, a Monody. By the fame.

Ode at the Inftallation of his Grace Auguftus Henry Fitzroy,

Duke of Grafton. By Mr. Gray.

A Long Story. By the fame.

The Fatal Sifters, an Ode. By the fame.

98

106

112

117

124
The

The Defcent of Odin, an Ode, from the Norfe Tongue.
By Mr. Gray.

The Triumphs of Owen, a Fragment from the Welch.
By the fame.

Page

128

132

An Epitaph in a Country Chureb-yard in Kent. By the
fame.

134

An Invitation to the Feather'd Race.

By the Rev. Mr.

Graves.

-

135

verion. By the fame.

Under an Hour Glass in a Grotto near the Water at Cla-

On the ancient City of Bath. By the fame.

140

The Great Shepherd, a facred Paftoral. By Mr. Barford.
A Father's Advice to his Son. By J. Gilbert Cooper, Efq; 158
On the much lamented Death of the Marquis of Taviflock.
By Christopher Ansty, Esq;

138

163

The Pleasures of Contemplation. By Mrs. Darval, for-
merly Mifs Whately.

166

Liberty, an Elegy, inferibed to Mifs Loggin. By the fame. 170

Hymn to Solitude- By the fame.

173

Ode to May. By the fame.

176

The Death of Arachne, an Heroi-comi-tragic Poem.

An Epifile from Lord William Ruffel to Lord William
-Cavendish. By Geo. Canning, Efq;

.190

A Birth day Offering to a young Lady, from her Lover.
By the fame.

205
Labour

Labour and Genius; or the Mill-fiream and the Cafcade,
a Fable. By Richard Jago, A. M.

Monody to the Memory of a young Lady. By Cuthbert

Shaw.

An Evening Address to a Nightingale. By the fame,
Prologue to the Mafque of Comus. By Samuel Johnfon,
·LL D..

The Summer's Wish. Suppofed by the fame.

Page

Autumn, an Ode. By the fame.

239

Winter, an Ode. By the fame.

243

The Winter's Walk. By the fame.

A Song. By the fame.

An Evening Ode, to Stella. By the fame.

244

245

246

To Mifs

The Vanity of Wealth, an Ode. By the fame.

To Myrtilis, the New Year's Offering.

The Three Warnings, a Tale. By Mrs. Thrale.
Balaam; or the Antiquity of Scandal.

247

By the fame.

249

251

254

258

Verfes, occafioned by the Right Hon. the Lady Viscountess
Tyrconnel's Recovery at Bath. By Richard Savage.

To a Lady going to bathe in the Sea. By G. Keate, Efq.
Prologue to the Play of King John. By the fame.

By the Rev. Mr. Parfons, of

Abfence, a paftoral Ballad. By the fame.

The Contented Philofopher. By the Rev. Mr. Cunningham. 281

271

273

275

277

278

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