Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages

by William Jones

POEMS,
CONSISTING CHIEFLY
OF
TRANSLATIONS
FROM THE
ASIATICK LANGUAGES.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED
TWO ESSAYS;

II. On the Poetry of the Eastern Nations.
II. On the Arts, commonly called Imitative.

————Juvat integros accedere fontes,
Atque haurire, juvatque novos decerpere flores. Lucr.

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THE SECOND EDITION.

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LONDON:
Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols;
For N. CONANT (Successor to Mr. WHISTON),
in Fleet Street.
M DCC LXXVII.

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE COUNTESS SPENCER,

THESE EASTERN PIECES,

AND, PARTICULARLY,

THE POEM OF

SOLIMA,

ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY

INSCRIBED

BY HER LADYSHIP'S

MOST OBLIGED

AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

THE CONTENTS.

Solima, an Arabian eclogue.

Page1.

The Palace of Fortune, an Indian tale.

7.

The Seven Fountains, an Eastern tale.

33.

A Persian Song of Hafez.

59.

An Ode of Petrach.

65.

Laura, an elegy.

75.

A Turkish ode on the Spring.

88.

The same, in Latin Trochaicks.

94.

Arcadia, a pastoral poem.

97.

Caissa, or, The Game at Chess.

123.

Carminum Liber.

143.

ESSAYS.

On the Poetry of the Eastern Nations

163.

On the Arts, commonly called Imitative

191.