ODES OF ANACREON.

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE, WITH NOTES.

Dedication to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

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Index to the Odes......

An Ode by the Translator.....

Corrections of the preceding Ode, suggested by an emi-

nent Greek scholar

Remarks on Anacreon

ODES.

I. I saw the smiling bard of pleasure....

II. Give me the harp of epic song........

III. Listen to the Muse's lyre

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IV. Vulcan! hear your glorious task.........

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V. Sculptor, wouldst thou glad my soul....... 66

VI. As late I sought the spangled bowers......

VII. The women tell me every day....

VIII. I care not for the idle state........

IX. I pray thee, by the gods above

X. How am I to punish thee

XI. "Tell me, gentle youth, I pray thee".

XII. They tell how Atys, wild with love

XIII. I will, I will, the conflict's past.....

XIV. Count me, on the summer trees .......

XV. Tell me, why, my sweetest dove .................

XVI. Thou, whose soft and rosy hues.....

XVII. And now, with all thy pencil's truth ......

XVIII. Now the star of day is high

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XIX. Here recline you, gentle maid

XX. One day the Muses twined the hands...... 75

XXI. Observe when mother earth is dry.........

XXII. The Phrygian rock, that braves the storm..

XXIII. I often wish this languid lyre

XXIV. To all that breathe the air of heaven..

XXV. Once in each revolving year

XXVI. Thy harp may sing of Troy's alarms......

XXVII. We read the flying courser's name ........

XXVIII. As, bys Lemnian forge's flame..........

XXIX. Yes-loving is a painful thrill..............

XXX. 'Twas in a mocking dream of night......

XXXI. Arm'd with hyacinthine rod

XXXII Strew me a fragrant bed of leaves.........

XXXIII. 'Twas noon of night, when round the pole.

XXXIV. Oh thou, of all creation blest...............

XXXV. Cupid once upon a bed............................

XXXVI. If hoarded gold possess'd the power......

XXXVII. Twas night, and many a circling bowl

XXXVIII. Let us drain the nectar'd bowl

XXXIX. How I love the festive boy.......

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XL. I know that Heaven hath sent me here.... 86

XLI. When Spring adorns the dewy scene .............. 86

XLII. Yes, be the glorious revel mine............

XIIII. While our rosy fillets shed....... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

XLIV. Bads of roses, virgin flowers

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XLV. Within this goblet, rich and deep..........

XLVI. Behold the young, the rosy Spring..

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XLVII. "Tis true, my fading years decline

XLVIII. When my thirsty soul I steep................

XLIX. When Bacchus, Jove's immortal boy.

L. When wine I quaff, before my eyes

LI. Fly not thus, my brow of snow............

LII. Away, away, ye men of rules..

LIII. When I behold the festive train ...........

LIV. Methinks, the pictured bull we see ........

LV. While we invoke the wreathed spring

LVI. He, who instructs the youthful crew................

LVII. Whose was the artist-hand that spread

I VIII. When Gold, as fleet as zephyr's pinion

LIX. Ripen'd by the solar beam

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LX. Awake to life, my sleeping shell

LXI. Youth's endearing charms are fled

LXII. Fill me, boy, as deep a draught........................

LXIII. To Love, the soft and blooming child......

LXIV. Haste thee, nymph, whose well-aim'd spear

LXV. Like some wanton filly sporting

LXVI. To thee, the Queen of nymphs divine.....

LXVII. Rich in bliss, I proudly scorn......

LXVIII. Now Neptune's mouth our sky deforms....

LXIX. They wove the lotus band to deck.....................

LXX. A broken cake with honey sweet.......... 100

LXXI. With twenty chords my lyre is hung.

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LXXII. Fare thee well, perfidious maid ........... 100

LXXIII. Awhile I bloom'd, a happy flower......... 100

LXXIV. Monarch Love, resistless boy....... ...... 100

LXXV. Spirit of Love, whose locks unroll'd....... 100

LXXVI. Hither, gentle Muse of mine.............. 101

LXXVII. Would that I were a tuneful lyre.......... 101

LXXVIII. When Cupid sees how thickly now........ 101

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NOTICE........

Αντιπάτρου Σιδωνίου, εις Ανακρέοντα.

Του αυτού, εις τον αυτόν .....

Του αυτού, εις τον αυτόν ........

Του αυτού, εις τον αυτόν .....

Cupid, whose lamp has lent the ray

Let me resign this wretched breath...

I know thou lov'st a brimming measure...

I fear that love disturbs my rest.......

From dread Leucadia's frowning steep.................

Mix me, child, a cup divine.........

EPIGRAMS FROM THE ANTHOLOGIA.

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A Ballad The Lake of the Dismal Swamp. Written

at Norfolk, in Virginia.

To the Marchioness Dowager of Donegal. From Ber-
muda, January, 1804.........................

To George Morgan, Esq., of Norfolk, Virginia. From

Bermuda, January, 1804 ...........

Lines written in a storm at sea........

Odes to Nea:-

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Two РоEMS.

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Nay, tempt me not to love again

I pray you, let us roam no more.................................................... 169

You read it in these spell-bound eyes................................... 169

A Dream of Antiquity ...........

Well-peace to thy heart, though another's it be.... 171

If I were yonder wave, my dear

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The Snow Spirit .................

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I stole along the flowery bank...................... 172

A Study from the Antique. .................................... 173

There's not a look, a word of thine................. 173

To Joseph Atkinson, Esq. From Bermuda ........... 174

The Steersman's Song. Written aboard the Boston frig-

Preface......

CORRUPTION ·····

INTOLERANCE. A Satire ........

Appendix.

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ate, 28th of April............................................................................................ 175

To the Fire-fly

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To the Lord Viscount Forbes. From the city of Wash-
ington

To Thomas Hume, Esq., M. D. From the city of Wash-
ington

Lines written on leaving Philadelphia

Lines written at the Cohoes, or Falls of the Mohawk

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Song of the Evil Spirit of the Woods

To the Honorable W. R. Spencer. From Buffalo, upon

Lake Erie.......

Ballad Stanzas ·······

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A Canadian Boat Song. Written on the river St. Law-

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To the Lady Charlotte Rawdon From the banks of

the St. Lawrence..................... ·······

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Impromptu, after a visit to Mrs. ——, of Montreal..... 186

Written on passing Deadman's Island, in the Gulf of

St. Lawrence, late in the evening, September, 1804. 186

To the Boston frigate, on leaving Halifax for England,

October, 1804.............

THE SKEPTIC: A Philosophical Satire..

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ADDRESSED TO AN ENGLISHMAN BY AN

IRISHMAN.

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TWOPENNY POST-BAG.

BY THOMAS BROWN THE YOUNGER.

Dedication. To Stephen Woolriche, Esq.

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Preface.......

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Preface to the Fourteenth Edition. By a Friend of

the Author

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INTERCEPTED LETTERS, ETC.

LETTER I. From the Pr-nc-ss Ch―rl-e of W-l-s

to the Lady B-rb-a Ashl-y

LETTER II. From Col. M'M-h-n to G-ld Fr-nc-s

L-ckie, Esq.

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Postscript.

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LETTER III. From G-ge Pr-ce R-gt to the E-- of

Yth......

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SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS POEMS.

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The Insurrection of the Papers. A Dream............ 216

Parody of a celebrated Letter

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Anacreontic to a Plumassier.........

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Extracts from the Diary of a Politician.............................. 219

Epigram

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King Crack and his Idols. Written after the late nego-

tiation for a new M-n-stry

What's my Thought like ?........

Epigram. Dialogue between a Catholic Delegate and

His R-y-1 H-ghn-ss the D-e of C-b-l―d....... 221

Wreaths for the Ministers. An Anacreontic.......... 221'

Epigram. Dialogue between a Dowager and her Maid

on the night of Lord Y-rm-th's fête

Horace. Ode XI. Lib. II. Freely translated by the

Pr-ce R-g-t

Horace. Ode XXII. Lib. I. Freely translated by Lord

Eld-n

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The New Costume of the Ministers ...... ............ 923

Correspondence between a Lady and Gentleman, upon

the advantage of (what is called) "having Law on

one's side"......

Occasional Address for the Opening of the New Thea-

tre of St. St-ph-n, intended to have been spoken

by the Proprietor in full Costume, on the 24th of

November, 1812............

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The Sale of the Tools

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Little Man and Little Soul. A Ballad............... 226

Reinforcements for Lord Wellington.... ................................. 226

Horace. Ode I. Lib. III. A Fragment

Horace. Ode XXXVIII. Lib. I. A Fragment. Trans-

lated by a Treasury Clerk, while waiting dinner for

the Right Hon. G-rge R-se...........................

Impromptu. Upon being obliged to leave a pleasant

party from the want of a pair of breeches to dress

for dinner in .......

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Lord Wellington and the Ministers

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IRISH MELODIES.

Dedication to the Marchioness Dowager of Donegal.. 228

Preface.........................

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Go where Glory waits thee.......................... ..................................... 228

War Song. Remember the glories of Brien the Brave.. 229

Erin! the Tear and the Smile in thine Eyes

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Oh! breathe not his Name.......

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When he who adores thee.

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The Harp that once through Tara's halls............................ 230

Fly not yet.......

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Oh, think not my spirits are always as light........... 230

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see.... 231

Rich and rare were the gems she wore....

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