On the duke of Marlborough’s victory at Oudenard.
A Letter to Mr. Addiſon.
On the king’s acceſſion to the throne.
To the reverend doctor Bentley, on the opening of Trinity-College Chapel, Cambridge.
On a Lady, who is the moſt beautiful and witty when ſhe is angry.
This poem begins with theſe lines.
Long had I known the ſoft, inchanting wiles,
Which Cupid practiſed in Aurelia’s ſmiles.
’Till by degrees, like the fam’d Aſian taught,
Safely I drank the ſweet, tho’ pois’nous draught.
Love vex’d to ſee his favours vainly ſhown,
The peeviſh Urchin murthered with a frown.
Verſes at the laſt public commencement at Cambridge, ſpoken by the author.
The Court of Venus, from Claudian.
The Speech of Pluto to Proſerpine.
Hero and Leander, tranſlated from the Greek of Muſæus.
This Piece begins thus,
Sing Muſe, the conſcious torch, whoſe mighty flame,
(The ſhining ſignal of a brighter dame)
Thro’ trackleſs waves, the bold Leander led,
To taſte the dangerous joys of Hero’s bed:
Sing the ſtol’n bliſs, in gloomy ſhades conceal’d,
And never to the bluſhing morn reveal’d.
A Poem on the Marriage of his grace the duke of Newcaſtle to the right honourable Henrietta Godolphin, which procured him, as we have obſerved already, the place of laureat.
