The Poetical Works of Thomas Tickell

by Thomas Tickell

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

THOMAS TICKELL.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

 

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Permit these Lines by thee to live—nor blameA Muse that pants and languishes for fame,That fears to sink when humbler themes she sings,Lost in the mass of mean forgotten things.Receiv'd by thee I prophesy my RhymesThe praise of virgins in succeeding times:Mix'd with thy works their life no bounds shall see,But stand protected as inspir'd by thee.TO SUPPOSED AUTH. OF SPECT.

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EDINBURG:
AT THE Apollo Press, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1781.

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

THOMAS TICKELL.

CONTAINING HIS

MISCELLANIES,	| |	ODES,
EPISTLES,	| |	TRANSLATIONS,

&c. &c. &c.

 

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Why praise we, prodigal of fame,The rage that sets the world on flame?My guiltless Muse his brow shall bindWhose godlike bounty spares mankind. ODE TO SUNDERLAND.

Simple I, and innocent of art,The tale that sooth'd my infant years impart,The tale I heard whole winter-eves untir'd,And sing the battles that my nurse inspir'd. KENS. GARDEN.

By Nature fitted for an humble theme,A painted prospect or a murm'ring stream,To tune a vulgar note in Echo's praise,Whilst Echo's self resounds the flatt'ring lays,Or whilst I tell how Myra's charms surprisePaint roses on her cheeks and suns within her eyes. OXFORD.

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EDINBURG:

AT THE Apollo Press, BY THE MARTINS.

Anno 1781.

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CONTENTS.

 

Page
The Life of the Author,		5
Miscellanies
To his Excellency the Lord Privy Seal, on the Prospect of Peace,		13
Poem on the Prospect of Peace,		15
The Royal Progress,		31
Thoughts occasioned by an original Picture of King Charles I.		37
A Fragment of a Poem on Hunting,		40
The Fatal Curiosity,		46
To a Lady, with a Description of the Phenix,		ib.
A Description of the Phenix,		47
Kensington Garden,		53
Thersites, or, The Lordling,		72
A Poem in praise of The Hornbook,		74
On Queen Caroline's rebuilding the Lodgings of The Black Prince and Henry V. at Oxford,		79
On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan,		80
Oxford, a Poem,		82
Prologue to the University of Oxford,		100
Colin and Lucy, a Ballad,		102
An Imitation of the Prophecy of Nereus,		105
Epistles.
To the supposed Author of The Spectator,		109
To Mr. Addison, on his Opera of Rosamond,		111
To Mr. Addison, on his Tragedy of Cato,		113
To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison,		115
An Epistle from a Lady in England to a Gentleman at Avignon,		119
To Apollo making Love,		127
To Mrs. Lowther on her Marriage,		128
To a Lady before Marriage,		ib.
To a Lady with a Present of Flowers,		132
To Gilfred Lawson, Esq. on a Lady's Picture,		133
To Sir Godfrey Kneller,		134
Odes.
Ode on the Earl of Stanhope's Voyage to France, 1718,		137
Ode inscribed to the Earl of Sunderland,		138
Translations.
Part of the fourth Book of Lucan,		142
Dedication to the first Book of The Iliad,		147
To the Reader,		150
The first Book or The Iliad,		151

 

From the APOLLO PRESS,
by the MARTINS,
Octr. 27. 1781.

 

THE END.