Poems on Several Occasions (Broome)

by William Broome

For works with similar titles, see Poems on Several Occasions.

Frontispiece from 'Poems on Several Occasions' by William Broome (2nd edition, published in 1739)

POEMS

ON

SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

 

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By WILLIAM BROOME, LL. D.

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Chaplain to the Right Honourable Charles Lord
Cornwallis, Baron of Eye, in Suffolk,

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———Nos otia vitæ
Solamur Cantu.Stat.

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THE SECOND EDITION,
With large Alterations and Additions.

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LONDON:

Printed for Henry Lintot.

M.DCC.XXXIX.

Fleuron from 'Poems on Several Occasions' by William Broome, 2nd edition published in 1739

 

THE

CONTENTS

The Preface.		Page xi
Of Criticism.		xii
Of partial Critics.		xvi
Of envious and malicious Critics.		xvii
Advertisement. (not in original TOC)		xxiv
The Third Chapter of Habbakkuk paraphrased. An Ode. Written in 1710, as an Exercise at St. John's College in Cambridge.		1
To Belinda, on her Sickness, and Recovery.		9
To Belinda, on her Apron embroider'd with Arms and Flowers.		13
Part of the 38th and 39th Chapters of Job. A Paraphrase.		16
Melancholy: An Ode, occasion'd by the Death of a beloved Daughter, 1723.		26
Daphnis and Lycidas. A Pastoral.		32
The First Ode of Horace translated.		42
An Epistle to my Friend Mr. Elijah Fenton, Author of Mariamne, a Tragedy, 1726.		46
A Dialogue between a Lady and her Looking-Glass, while she had the Green-Sickness.		56
The Seat of War in Flanders, &c.		62
To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Cornwallis, Baron of Eye, Warden, Chief Justice, and Justice in Eyre of all His Majesty's Forests, Chases, Parks and Warrens on the South Side of Trent.		77
The Rose-Bud: To the Right Honourable the Lady Jane Wharton.		82
Belinda at the Bath.		85
The Coy. An Ode.		87
To the Honourable Mrs. Elizabeth Townshend, now Lady Cornwallis, on her Picture at Rainham.		90
To Mr. Pope, on his Works, 1726.		94
Part of the Tenth Book of the Iliads of Homer. In the Stile of Milton.		101
A Pastoral, to a young Lady upon her leaving, and return to, the Country		131
Poverty and Poetry.		139
To a Lady, playing with a Snake.		144
To a Lady of Thirty.		147
On the Birth-Day of a Gentlman when three Years old.		149
The Forty-third Chapter of Ecclesiasticus. A Paraphrase.		154
The Conclusion of an Epilogue to Mr. Southern's last Play, call'd Money the Mistress.		164
The Parting, a Song, set by Dr. Tudway, Professor of Music in Cambridge.		165
On a Flower which Belinda gave me from her Bosom.		168
The Story of Talus, from the fourth Book of Apollonius Rhodius. V. 1629.		172
From the Eleventh Book of the Iliads of Homer. In the Stile of Milton.		176
To Mrs. Eliz. M———t, on her Picture, 1716.		185
Prologue to Mr. Fenton's excellent Tragedy Mariamne.		188
To Mr. A. Pope, who corrected my Verses.		192
Monsieur Maynard imitated. To the Right Honourable the Lord Cornwallis.		195
On a mischievous Woman.		198
The Coquette.		199
The Widow and Virgin Sisters, being a Letter to the Widow, in London.		201
On the Death of my Dear Friend Mr. Elijah Fenton. 1730.		206
A Poem on Death. To Thomas Marriot Esq;		215
Courage in Love.		226
The Complaint. Cælia to Damon.		230
The Battle of the Gods and Titans: from the Theogony of Hesiod; with a Description of Tartarus, &c.		243
The Love of Jason and Medea. From the Third Book, Verse 743, of Apollonius Rhodius.		256
Epistola ad Amicum Rusticantem, scripta Vere incunte Cantab. 1709.		271

 

Endpiece from 'Poems on Several Occasions' by William Broome (1739, 2nd edition)