To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, < And warms the nations with redoubled ray. 'Enough for me: With joy I fee < The different doom our Fates affign. Be thine Despair, and scepter'd Care, To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height. Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. POSTSCRIPT. AVING now, by the advice and affiftance of my friends, brought this Collection of POEMS to a competent fize, it has been thought proper that the farther progrefs of its growth fhould here be stop'd. From the loofe and fugitive pieces, fome printed, others in manufcript, which for forty or fifty years past have been thrown into the world, and carelessly left to perish; I have here, according to the most judicious opinions I could obtain in diftinguishing their merits, endeavour'd to felect and preserve the beft. The favourable reception which the former volumes have met with, demands my warmeft acknowledgments, and calls for all my care in compleating the Collection; and in this respect, if it appear that I have not been altogether negligent, I fhall hope to be allow'd the merit, which is all I claim, of having furnish'd to the Public an elegant and polite Amufeinent. Little more need be added, than to return my thanks to several ingenious friends, who have obligingly contributed to this Entertainment. If the reader fhould happen to find, what I hope he feldom will, any pieces which he may think unworthy of having been inferted; as it would ill become me to attribute his dislike of them to his own want of Tafte, so I am too conscious of my own deficiencies not to allow him to impute the infertion of them to mine. R. DODSLEY. To the Hon. and Rev. F. C. 174 6. For a Column at Runny-To a Lady very handsome, but too Ode mede Ode to the Tiber Elegies, 43 fond of Drefs 44 Anacreon. Ode 2. Ode III. 182 46 An Imitation of Horace, Book III. 1. Written at the Convent of pagne, 1754 55 186 -188 190 A Reply to a Copy of Verfes made dy, buried in Marriage to a Per-An Ode to Sculpture Jon undeferving her 254 True Refignation 256 Mr. Voltaire 330 331 336 An Elegy, written on Valentine Epifle from the King of Pruffia to Morning The Dowager Ode to the Hon. ** To Mifs 266 268 Lady Mary W***, to Sir W*** Y*** 337 261 At feeing Archbishop Williams's Monument in Carnarvonshire 341 Extempore Verfes upon a Trial of Skill between the two great Mafters of Defence, Meffieurs Figg and Sutton 271 272 Sir W*** Y***'s Anfwer 344 A Letter from Cambridge to a The Indolent 273 348 353 276 354 278 On the Invention of Letters 356 ibid. 286 On Wit 357 Chlo-On a Spider ibid. 288 The Play-Thing chang'd To Chlorinda 292 The Fable of Jotham: 301 An Elegy written in an empty Af 304 Jembly Room 363 367 308 The Fakeer: A Tale occa-To Mr. Whitehead, on his being Ode to the Genius of Italy, To C*** P***, Esq; 314 made Poet Laureat 370 Verfes on the Profpect of planting 317 Arts and Learning in America Epiftle from the late Lord Viscount B-gb-ke to Mifs Lucy To Mr. Mafon |