ELEGY XI.

He complains how foon the pleafing novelty of life is over.

To Mr. J-

ELEGY XII.

His recantation.

ELEGY XIII.

53

55

To a friend, on fome flight occafion eftranged from him. 57

ELEGY XIV.

Declining an invitation to vifit foreign countries, he takes

occafion to intimate the advantages of his own. To Lord

Temple.

ELEGY XV.

ELEGY XVI.

In memory of a private family in Worcestershire.

59

62

He fuggefts the advantages of birth to a perfon of merit,
and the folly of a fupercilioufness that is built upon that

fole foundation.

ELEGY XVII.

67

He indulges the fuggeftions of spleen: an elegy to the

winds.

ELEGY XVIII.

72

He repeats the Song of Collin, a difcerning shepherd; la-

menting the ftate of the woollen manufactury.

ELEGY

Written in Spring 1743.

XIX.

ELEGY XX.

76

79

He compares his humble fortune with the diftreffes of others,

and his fubjection to Delia with the miferable fervitude

of an African flave.

ELEGY XXI.

83

Taking a view of the country from his retirement, he is led
to meditate on the character of the ancient Britons.
Written at the time of a rumoured tax upon luxury.
1746.

ELEGY XXIV.

He takes occafion from the fate of Eleanor of Bretagne, to

fuggeft the imperfect pleafures of a folitary life.

ELEGY XXV.

98

To Delia, with fome flowers; complaining how much his

benevolence Juffers on account of his humble fortune. 102

ELEGY XXVI.

Defcribing the forrow of an ingenuous mind, on the melan-

choly event of a licentious amour.
104

II. ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c.

Rural elegance: an ode to the late duchefs of Somerset.

Written 1750.

Ode to memory. 1748.

122

The princess Elizabeth: a ballad alluding to a story recorded

of her, when he was prifoner at Woodstock, 1554. 124

Ode to a young lady, fomewhat too folicitous about her man-

ner of expreffion.

Nancy of the vale. A ballad.

126

128

Ode to Indolence. 1750.

130

Ode to Health. 1730.

132

To a lady of quality, fitting up her library. 1738.

135

Upon a vifit to the fame in winter. 1748.

137

An irregular ode after fickness. 1749.

138

Written in a flower book of my own colouring, defigned for

lady Plimouth. 1753-4.

143

Anacreontic. 1738.

144

Ode. Written 1739.

145

The dying kid.

147

The halcyon.

Ode.

Songs, written chiefly between the year 1737 and 1742.

A paftoral ode, to the honourable Sir Richard Lyttleton. 169

Verfes written towards the close of the year 1748, to Wil

liam Lyttleton, Esq.

176

Jemmy Dawfon, a ballad; written about the time of his

execution, in the year 1745.

A pastoral ballad, in four parts. Written 1743.

III. LEVITIES, or PIECES of HUMOUR.

Flirt and Phil; a decifion for the ladies.

195

Stanzas to the memory of an agreeable lady, buried in mar

riage to a perfon undeferving her.

196

Colemira. A culinary eclogue.

197

The rape of the trap. A ballad. 1737.

200

On certain paftorals.

204

On Mr. C

of Kidderminster's poetry.

ibid.

To the virtuofos.

ibid.

The extent of cookery.

206

The progrefs of advice. A common cafe.

207

A ballad.

Slender's ghoft.

The Invidious.

The price of an equipage.

Hint from Voiture.
Infcription.

To a friend

The poet and the dun. 1741
Written at an inn at Henley.

A fimile.

The charms of precedence. A tale.

Ode.

Epilogue to the tragedy of Cleone.

219 220

227

229

IV. MORAL PIECES.

The judgment of Hercules.

234

The progrefs of tafte: or, the fate of delicacy.
Oeconomy, a rhapjody, addreffed to young poets.

251

272

The ruin'd abby; or, the effects of fuperftition.
Love and honour.