The Poetical Works of Elijah Fenton

by Elijah Fenton

Frontispiece from 'The Poetical Works of Elijah Fenton, published in 1779, as part of Bell's Edition of 'The Poets of Great Britain'

Printed for John Bell near Exeter Exchange Strand London Dec. 29. 1779

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ELIJAH FENTON.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

 

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Strong were thy thoughts, yet reason bore the sway;
Humble yet learn'd; tho' innocent yet gay:
So pure of heart, that thou might'st safely show
Thy inmost bosom to thy basest foe:
Careless of wealth, thy bliss a calm retreat,
Far from the insults of the scornful great———
O Woods! O Wilds! O ev'ry bow'ry Shade!
So often vocal by his music made,
Now other sounds—far other sounds, return,
And o'er his hearse with all your echoes mourn———
Where were ye, Muses! by what fountain side,
What river, sporting when your fav'rite dy'd?
He knew by verse to chain the headlong floods,
Silence loud winds, or charm attentive woods.BROOME.

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EDINBURG:

AT THE Apollo Press, BY THE MARTINS.

Anno 1779.

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ELIJAH FENTON.

 

CONTAINING HIS

 

MISCELLANIES,	TALES,
EPISTLES,	TRANSLATIONS,
ODES,	IMITATIONS,

&c. &c. &c.

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A poet bless'd beyond the poets' fate,
Whom Heav'n kept sacred from the proud and great:
Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease,
Content with science in the vale of peace:
Calmly he look'd on either life, and here
Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear;
From Nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd,
Thank'd Heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd.
POPE.

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EDINBURG:

At the Apollo Press, by the Martins.

Anno 1779.

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CONTENTS.

 

Page
The Life of the Author,		5
Miscellanies.
Dedication,		17
Florelio. A Pastoral. Lamenting the death of the Marquis of Blandford,		ib.
Part of the xivth Chapter of Isaiah paraphrased,		25
Verses on the Union,		27
Cupid and Hymen,		30
Olivia,		31
A-la-mode,		32
The Platonic Spell,		33
Prologue,		35
Epistles.
To a Lady, sitting before her glass,		37
To the same, reading The Art of Love,		38
An Epistle to Mr. Southerne,		39
A Letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield,		50
To Mr. Pope. An Imitation of a Greek epigram in Homer, &c.		54
An Epistle to Thomas Lambard, Esq.,		55
To the Queen, on her Majesty's Birth-day,		70
To the Right Hon. the Lady Marg. Cavendish Harley, with the poems of Mr. Waller,		72
Odes.
Ode to the Sun, for the New Year 1707,		77
An Ode. What art thou, Life! &c.		87
Ode to the Right Hon. John Lord Gower,		91
Tales.
The Widow's Wile,		95
A Tale, devised in the pleasaunt manere of gentil Maister Jeoffrey Chaucer,		99
The Fair Nun,		103
Translations, &c.
The Eleventh Book of Homer's Odyssey. Translated from the Greek. In Milton's style,		110
Sappho to Phaon. A love epistle, Translated from Ovid,		137
Phaon to Sappho,		146
Marullus de Neæra,		156
The same imitated,		157
Johannis Secundi. Basium I.		158
Kisses. Translated from Secundus,		159
Basium II.		160
The same translated,		161
The Dream. Imitated from Propertius,		164

 

From the APOLLO PRESS,
by the MARTINS,
Sept. 16. 1779.

 

THE END.