CONTENT S. I. ELEGIES on feveral Occafions. A Prefatory Effay on Elegy. Page 3 ELEGY I. He arrives at his retirement in the country, and takes occafion to expatiate in praise of fimplicity. To a friend. H. 13 15 16 On Pofthumous Reputation. To a Friend. III. On the untimely death of a certain learned acquaintance. IV. Ophelia's Urn. To Mr. Graves. 18 20 21 V. He compares the turbulence of love with the tranquillity of friendship. To Melissa his friend. VI. To a Lady, on the language of Birds. VII. He defcribes his vifion to an acquaintance. VIII. He describes his early love of poetry, and its confequences. To Mr. Graves, 1745. 23 26 IX. He defcribes his difinterestedness to a friend. 28 X. To fortune, fuggefting his motive for repining at her difpenfations. 30 XI. He complains how foon the pleasing novelty of life is over. To Mr. Jago. XII. His recantation. 32 34 35 XIII. To a friend, on fome flight occafion eftranged from him. XIV. Declining an invitation to vifit foreign countries, he takes occafion to intimate the advantages of his own. To Lord Temple. 37 XV. In memory of a private family in Worcesterfhire. 40 XVI. He fuggefts the advantages of birth to a perfon 43 XVII. He indulges the fuggeftions of fpleen: an 47 XVIII. He repeats the fong of Collin, a difcerning XIX. Written in fpring, 1743. 50 53 XX. He compares his humble fortune with the dif 56 59 when the rights of 62 XXII. Written in the year 72 74 II. ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c. - 79 89 Ode to Memory, 1748. 91 93 Nancy Written in a Flower Book of my own colouring, de- III Songs, written chiefly between the years 1737 and Verses, written towards the close of the year 1748, to Ode to Cynthia, on the approach of Spring. Jemmy Dawson, a ballad; written about the time of his execution, in the year 1745. A Paftoral Ballad, in four parts. - Written 1743- 152-160 III. LEVITIES, or PIECES of HUMOUR. Stanzas to the memory of an agreeable Lady, buried in marriage to a perfon undeferving her. |