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The Nine muses, or, Poems written by nine several ladies upon the death of the late famous John Dryden, Esq.
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Manley, Mrs. (Mary de la Rivière), 1663-1724.
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all with Gaiety and Love A horrid Sound dasht our immortal Mirth Wafted by Sighs from the unlucky Earth who 'd 〈◊〉 Celestial Forms should Sorrows know Or simpathize with sad Events below But by our great Immortal Selves we do For when the loud unwelcome Message spread With dismal Accents tuneful Dryden's Dead All our gay Joys in hast affrighted fled A sullen Gloom seiz'd all the Gods around My feeble hand no more the Lyre cou'd sound And all the soft young Loves with drooping Wings Lisp't their concern and my neglected Strings Trembl'd themselves into a mournful Air Then sight and husht into a sad despair There let them ever unregardedly Apollo's too doth cease its Harmony He with as sacred Nimphs profusely mourns With us the least desire of Respite scorns Intire eternal Grief our Beings seize For him who best could us and Mankind please Great Dryden in whose yast capacious Mind Our utmost pow'r did fit reception find Which Favours he did generously dispence Joy'd the glad World with his amazing Sence And like us too diffus'd his Influence His Genius would such Inspiration bear That his Illustrious Lines did not appear As if our Product but our Selves were there Mourn ye forsaken Worlds you ne're again Be blest with so Divine so great a Swain In you no more let tuneful Mirth be found The very Spheres shall cease wonted Sound And every Orb stop its harmonious round All Nature hush as if intranc't she lay Sunk in old Chaoâ— e're the inlight'ning Ray Of Heaven awak'd her in the first-born Day With such still Horrour lets our Sorrows bear Least Sighs in time Harmonious should appear If e're to Write again is Man's intent Uncall'd on let us silently Lament And take his Works for an Eternal President Polimnia Of Rhetorick On the Death of John Dryden Esq By Mrs. D. 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CAll'd by my Grief Melpomene I come With Radiant Tears to Grace my Dryden's Tome Me my imperial Father Jove has made Of powerful Rhetorick the Glorioâ—â— Maid But since my Heav'nly Birth did ne're inspire Nor Found a Soul Capacious of such Fire Pleas'd with the mortal Wonder I look'd down And on his Brows fixt an Immortal Crown With Lovers hands I la visht all my Charms Gave up my self to his more Lovely Arms Which his unequal'd Works so loudly Sound Where Energy and Rhetorick abound And every Grace that 's in Minerva found Ah Mournful Sister thou my Grief must share A loss so vast no single Breast can bear Wreath me in my Dark Robes I 'le watch thy Eyes Mingle our Tears and Eccho to thy Sighs Of Eloquence no more the use I 'le Boast That all Arts are in my Lover Lost Incessant Groans be all my Rhetorick now My Immortality I wou'd forgoe Rather than drag this Chain of endless Woe O mighty Father hear a Daughter's Pray'r Cure me by Death from deathless sad Dispair FINIS BOOKS Printed for Richard Basset at the Mitre against Chancery-Lane in Fleetstreet POetae Britannici A Poem Satyrical and Panegyrical upon our English Poets By Mr. Cob of Trinity College in Cambridge price One Shilling The Sceptical Muse Or a Paradox upon Humane Understanding A Poem By Mr. Dove of Catharine-Hall Price 6 d. 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