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Beauty joyn'd with Piety Let Heaven and Heaven's Vicegerent always share Your noblest Thoughts and your most Dutious care WILLIAM's a Name you 're Fated to Record No Pen but yours can match the Heroes Sword If yon ASSOCIATE too you 'll guard Him more Then all the Loyal Myriads gon before Let harden'd Traitors know what 't is to ' abuse The Patience of a King and of a Muse. Let 'em no more a Monarch's Justice dare Draw off his side at once and END THE WAR These just tho' poor Acknowledgments I send From distant Shades to Heav'ns and Cesars Friend Those but debase who weakly strive to raise You 'll ne're grow vain with ' s humble praise THE Contents THE Contents TO the Author of these Poems known only by Report and by her Works Platonick Love Page 1 Humane Love by a Countrey Gentleman in Answer to Platonick Love 3 To Mr. on his Poem 5 To Mrs. Mary Friend knowing her but by Report 7 Paraphrase on John 3. 16. For God so loved the World that he gave his only Begotten Son c. 8 The Expostulation 12 To my Lady Carteret 14 And though after my Skin Worms destroy this Body yet in my Flesh shall I see God Iob 19. 26. 15 To Sir Charles Sedley 16 To the Honourable Mrs. E. Stretchy 17 A Pindarick Poem on Habbakuk 18 The Athenians to the Compiler of the Pindarick now Recited 21 A Poetical Question concerning the Jacobites sent to the Athenians 27 The Athenians Answer 28 Upon King William's passing the Boyn c. 30 The Vanity of the World in a Poem to the Athenians 33 The Athenians Answer 35 The Rapture ibid. A Paraphrase on the CANTICLES Chap. I. 36 Chap. II. 39 Chap. III. 42 Chap. IV. 44 Chap. V. 47 Chap. VI. 52 The Fable of Phaeron Paraphrased from Ovid's Metamorphosis 56 The Wish in a Poem to the Athenians â—d Alphabet I The Athenians Answer 3 To one that perswades me to leave the Muses 6 A Poem occasion'd by the Report of the Queen's Death 9 Paraphrase on John 21. 17. 10 Paraphrase on Cant. 5,6 c. 13 A Pindarick to the Athenian Society 15 Paraphrase on Revel Chap. 1. from v. 13. to v. 18. 19 To a very Young Gentleman at a Dancing-School 22 To the same Gentleman 23 A Pastoral 24 To Celinda 27 Thoughts on Death 28 The Female Passion 30 To Strephon 31 Paraphrase on Malachy 3 14. 32 On Mrs. Rebekah 34 By Dispair 35 To Orestes 37 The Athenians Answer to the foregoing Poem 39 Paraphrase on Canticles 7 11 40 Paraphrase on Micah 6. 6 7. 41 The Reflection 43 A Song 44 To Madam S. at the Court 46 The Vision To Theron 49 A Pastoral Elegy 51 Parthenia an Elegy 57 The Reply to Mr. 59 A Pastoral on the Queen 62 A Farewel to Love 65 POEMS ON Several Occasions Platonick Love I. SO Angels Love and all the rest is dross Contracted selfish sensitive and gross Unlike to this all free and unconfin'd Is that bright flame I bear thy brighter mind II. No stragling wish or symptom of desire Comes near the Limits of this holy fire Yet 't is intense and active tho so fine For all my pure immortal part is thine III. Why should I then the Heav'nly spark controul Since there 's no brighter Ray in all my Soul Why should I blush to indulge the noble flame For which even friendship 's a degrading name IV. Nor is the greatness of my Love to thee A sacriledge unto the Deity Can I th' enticing stream almost adore And not respect its lovely fountain more HUMANE LOVE By a Country GENTLEMAN In Answer to PLATONICK LOVE I. SO Angels love So let them love for me As mortal I must like a mortal be My Love 's as pure as their's more unconfin'd I love the Body they but love the Mind II. Without enjoyment Can desire be ill For that which wou'd a Man with pleasure fill This more intense and active sure must be Since I both Soul and Body give to thee III. This flame as much of Heaven as that contains And more for unto that but half pertains Friendship one Soul to th' other doth unite But Love joins all and therefore is more bright IV. Neither doth Humane Love Religion harm But rather us against our Vices arm Shall I not for a charming Mistress dye When Heaven commands increase and mulitply To Mr. on his POEM I. SOme Tuneful Being now my Breast inspire With Thoughts as Gay and Noble as Celestial Fire For Clitus is my Theam But ah in vain born on Pindarick Wings My ventrous Muse The mighty Aim pursues For to his Native Skies still Clitus mounts and Sings And we are distant still to an extream II. Behold the Heavenly Charmer how he keeps aloft While Angels Crowd and Listen to his Song And not an Angel-Critick in the throng That durst correct a Thought So Nobly are they Drest And Gracefully exprest So smoothly glide the Numbers from his Tongue So well his Touch the Charming Strings obey That all his Heavenly Auditors Admire To hear him weild an equal Theam with as much skill as they His Voice and Theam did even their Harps inspire And the Glad Anthem they repeat agen Glory to God Peace and Good-will to Men. TO Mrs. MARY FRIEND Knowing her but by Report 'T Were both unjust and stupid to refuse To so much Worth the Tribute of my Muse Tho Saints as well may those Bright Forms express That in a Rapture they conceive of Bliss As I can give such Wondrous Charms their due Or Dress in Words my Brighter Thoughts of You Charming and Gay your Fair Idea seems As Gay as if compos'd of Love and Beams Such Heavenly Rays adorn your Lovely Eyes That by Imagination they surprize And at your Feet a Female Victim lies But how Fair Nymph will your Approaches Fire If Distant Charms such gentle thoughts inspire PARAPHRASE On Joh. 3. 16 For God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son c. I. YEs so God loved the World But where Are this Great Loves Dimensions Even Angels stop for baffled here Are their vast Apprehensions In vain they strive to Grasp the boundless thing Not all their Comments can explain the mighty Truth I Sing II. Yet still they pause on the Contents Of this Amazing Story How he that fill'd the wide extents Of Uncreated Glory He whom the Heaven of Heavens cou'd not contain Shou'd yet within the Sacred Maids contracted Womb remain III. They see him Born and hear him Weep To aggravate their Wonder Whose Awful Voice had shook the Deep And Breath'd his Will in Thunder That Awful Voice chang'd to an Infant 's Cry Whilst in a Feeble Woman's Arms he seems constrain'd to lye IV. A God Ah! Where are Humane boasts Extended in a Manger The Lord of all the Heavenly Hosts Expos'd to Scorn and Danger The Onely Blest the All-sufficient Weeps But Oh who Guides the Staggering World while its Protector Sleeps V.
dazling Glories show The Athenians Answer AH Bright Vnknown you know not what you ask Angels wou'd bend beneath the unequal Task Were that bless'd World disclos'd 't wou'd seem so fair Who wou'd not leap Lifes Barriers to be there Yet see a Glimpse all Heav'n permits to see And learn the rest from Faith and Extasie The Paradise of God those happy seats which cost Far more than that fair Eden we have lost Exceeds luxuriant Fancies richest dress And Beggers Rhime and Numbers self t' express No were we lost in that primaeval Grove Where Father Adam with his New-born Bride Walkt careless walkt and lov'd nor Want nor Sin Nor jealous Rage nor curst tormenting Hopes Their Sacred Verge approaching cou'd we pierce As the blind Bard with intellectual sight Thro' those first happy Mortals Sylvan shade Thro'clust'ring Vines whose swelling Purple Grapes With generous Juice invited the bless'd Pair To taste nor fear to dye were all the Springs That from some easie Mountains mossy side Or hoary Rock ran gently murmuring A thousand Flour's upon the bending Banks A thousand Birds upon the fragrant Trees And Eve her self all smiling ioyn'd the Quire With blissful Hymns of chast and holy Love Were these and more united to compose A Poets Heaven to the true Heaven 't wou'd be A Barren Wilderness nay worse a World Not Reasons self a Ray of the divine Off-spring and Friend of God when manacled In sinful mortal mold altho' it trace No Sister Truth thro' each Dedalean maze And builds on Sense with well poiz'd Argument Not that can tell us what we there shall see Or have or know or do or ever be Nay tho' with nobler Faiths more perfect Glass We look beyond the Christal starry Worlds We know but part sunk in our darksom selves And from Life's dungeon wish the glim'ring Light Coasters of Heav'n we beat along the shore Some Creeks and Landmarks found but know no more The Inland Country's undiscover d still The glorious City of th' eternal King Yet of coelestial Growth we bear away Some rich immortal Fruit Joy Peace and Love Knowledge and Praise Vision and pure Delight Rivers of Bliss ay-dwelling from the Throne Of the most high exhaustless Fund of Light There there is Heav'n 't is he who makes it so The Soul can hold no more for God is all He only equalls its capacious Grasp He only o're fills to spaces infinite Ah! who can follow That shall only those Who with intrepid Breasts the World oppose Tear out the glitt'ring Snake tho' ne're so close it twine And part with mortal Ioys for Ioys Divine To one that perswades me to leave the Muses FOrgo the charming Muses No in spight Of your ill-natur'd Prophecy I 'll write And for the future paint my thoughts at large I waste no paper at the Hunderds charge I rob no Neighbouring Geese of Quills nor slink For a collection to the Church for ink Besides my Muse is the most gentle thing That ever yet made an attempt to sing I call no Lady Punk nor Gallants Fops Nor set the married world an edge for Ropes Yet I 'm so seurvily inclin'd to Rhiming That undesign'd my thoughts burst out a chiming My active Genius will by no means sleep And let it then its proper channel keep I 've told you and you may believe me too That I must this or greater mischiefe do And let the world think me inspir'd or mad I 'le surely write whilst paper 's to be had Since Heaven to me has a Retreat assign'd That would inspire a less harmonious mind All that a Poet loves I have in view Delight some Hills refreshing Shades and pleasant Valleys too Fair spreading Valleys cloath'd with lasting green And Sunny Banks with gilded streams between Gay as Elisium in a Lovers Dream Or Flora's Mansion seated by a stream Where free from sullen cares I live at case Indulge my Muse and wishes as I please Exempt from all that looks like want or strife I smoothly glide along the Plains of Life Thus Fate conspires and what can I do to ' t Besides I 'm veh'mently in love to boot And that there 's not a Willow Sprig but knows In whose sad shade I breathe my direful woes But why for these dull Reasons do I pause When I 've at hand my genuine one because And that my Muse may take no counter Spell I fairly bid the Boarding Schools farewel No Young Impertinent shall here intrude And vex me from this blisful solitude Spite of her heart Old Puss shall damn no more Great Sedley's Plays and never look 'em o're Affront my Navels no nor in a Rage Force Drydens lofty Products from the Stage Whilst all the rest of the melodious crew With the whole System of Athenians too For Study's sake out of the Window flew But I'to Church shall fill her Train no more And walk as if I sojurn'd by the hour To Stepwel and his Kit I bid adieu Fall off and on be hang'd and Coopee too Thy self for me my dancing days are o're I 'le act th' inspired Bachannels no more Eight Notes must for another Treble look In Burlesque to make Faces by the book Iapan and my esteemed Pencil too And pretty Cupid in the Glass adieu And since the dearest friends that be must part Old Governess farewell with all my heart Now welcome all ye peaceful Shades and Springs And welcome all the inspiring tender things That please my genius suit my make and years Unburden'd yet with all but lovers cares A POEM Occasioned by the report of the Queens Death When fame had blown among the Western swains The saddest news that ever reacht their Plains Like Thunder in my ears the sound did break The killing accents which I dare not speak Less was I toucht with that pernicious Dart That peirc'd through mine to reach my Daphnes Heart From off my Head the Florid wreath I tore That I to please the fond Orestes wore And quite o're charg'd with Grief upon the ground I sunk my Brows with mournful Cypress Crown'd My trembling Hand sustain'd my drooping Head And at my feet my Lire and Songs were laid 'T was in a gloomy Shade where o're and o're I 'de mourn'd my Lov'd Companions loss before But now I vainly strove my Thoughts t' expose In Numbers kind and sensible as those For ah the Potent ills that fill'd my Breast Were much to vast and black to be exprest Pharaphrase on John 21. 17. YEs thou that knowest all dost know I love thee And that I set no Idol up above thee To thy unerring censure I appael And thou that knowest all things sure canst tell I Love thee more then Life or Interest Nor hast thou any Rival in my Breast I Love thee so that I would calmly bear The Mocks of Fools and bless my happy Ear Let me from thee but one kind whisper hear I Love thee so that for a smile of thine Might this and all the brighter Worlds be mine