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II

      Prologue to the 'Maid's Tragedy'

      Epilogue to the 'Maid's Tragedy,' Spoken by the the King

      Another Epilogue to the 'Maid's Tragedy,' Designed upon the first

       Alteration of the Play, when the King only was left Alive

      EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, AND FRAGMENTS:—

      Under a Lady's Picture

      Of a Lady who Writ in Praise of Mira

      To One Married to an Old Man

      An Epigram on a Painted Lady with ill Teeth

      Epigram upon the Golden Medal

      Written on a Card that Her Majesty tore at Ombre

      To Mr. Granville (now Lord Lansdowne), on his Verses to King James II

      Long and Short Life

      Translated out of Spanish

      Translated out of French

      Some Verses of an Imperfect Copy, Designed for a Friend, on his

       Translation of Ovid's 'Fasti'

      On the Statue of King Charles I., at Charing Cross, in the Year 1674

      Pride

      Epitaph on Sir George Speke

      Epitaph on Colonel Charles Cavendish

      Epitaph on the Lady Sedley

      Epitaph to be Written under the Latin Inscription upon the Tomb of the only Son of the Lord Andover

      Epitaph Unfinished

      DIVINE POEMS:—

      Of Divine Love

      Of the Fear of God

      Of Divine Poesy

      On the Paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer, Written by Mrs. Wharton

      Some Reflections of his upon the Several Petitions in the same Prayer

      On the Foregoing Divine Poems

DENHAM'S POEMS.

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      LIFE OF SIR JOHN DENHAM

      POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

      Cooper's Hill

      The Destruction of Troy, an Essay on the 2d Book of Virgil's Eneis

      On the Earl of Stafford's Trial and Death

      On my Lord Croft's and my Journey into Poland

      On Mr. Thomas Killigrew's Return from Venice, and Mr. William Murrey's from Scotland

      To Sir John Mennis

      Natura Naturata

      Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus, in the Twelfth Book of Homer

      Friendship and Single Life, against Love and Marriage

      On Mr. Abraham Cowley, his Death, and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets

      A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee

      To the Five Members of the Honourable House of Commons, the humble

       Petition of the Poets

      A Western Wonder

      A Second Western Wonder

      A Song

      On Mr. John Fletcher's Works

      To Sir Richard Fanshaw, upon his Translation of 'Pastor Fido'

      To the Hon. Edward Howard, on 'The British Princes'

      An Occasional Imitation of a Modern Author upon the Game of Chess

      The Passion of Dido for Aeneas

      Of Prudence

      Of Justice

      The Progress of Learning

      Elegy on the Death of Helfry Lord Hastings, 1650

      Of Old Age

THE POETICAL WORKS

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OF

WALLER'S POETICAL WORKS.

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      MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

      OF THE DANGER HIS MAJESTY [BEING PRINCE] ESCAPED IN THE ROAD AT ST ANDERO.[1]

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      Now bad his Highness bid farewell to Spain,

       And reach'd the sphere of his own power—the main;

       With British bounty in his ship he feasts

       Th' Hesperian princes, his amazed guests,

       To find that watery wilderness exceed

       The entertainment of their great Madrid.

       Healths to both kings, attended with the roar

       Of cannons, echo'd from th'affrighted shore,

       With loud resemblance of his thunder, prove

       Bacchus the seed of cloud-compelling Jove; 10

       While to his harp divine Arion sings[2]

       The loves and conquests of our Albion kings.

      Of the Fourth Edward was his noble song,

       Fierce, goodly, valiant, beautiful, and young;

       He rent the crown from vanquish'd Henry's head,

       Raised the White Rose, and trampled on the Red;

       Till love, triumphing o'er the victor's pride,

       Brought Mars and Warwick to the conquer'd side:

       Neglected Warwick (whose bold hand, like Fate,

       Gives and resumes the sceptre of our state) 20

       Woos for his master; and with double shame,

       Himself deluded, mocks the princely dame,

       The Lady Bona, whom just anger burns,

       And foreign war with civil rage returns.

       Ah! spare your swords, where beauty is to blame;

       Love gave th'affront, and must repair the same;

       When France shall boast of her, whose conqu'ring eyes

       Have made the best of English hearts their prize;

       Have power to alter the decrees of Fate,

       And change again the counsels of our state. 30

       What the prophetic Muse intends, alone

       To him that feels the secret wound is known.

       With the sweet sound of this harmonious lay,

       About the keel delighted dolphins play,

       Too sure a sign of sea's ensuing rage,

       Which must anon this royal troop engage;

       To whom soft sleep seems more secure and sweet,

      

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