Defcend, thou bright, immortal guest,
In all thy radiant charms confefs'd.
III.

Thou once didft leave almighty Jove,
And all the golden roofs above:
The car thy wanton fparrows drew;
Hovering in air they lightly flew;
As to my bower they wing'd their way,
I faw their quivering pinions play.

IV.

The birds difmifs'd (while you remain)
Bore back their empty car again:

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Then you, with looks divinely mild,

In every heavenly feature fmil'd,

And afk'd, what new complaints I made,
And why I call'd you to my aid?

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V.

What frenzy in my bofom rag'd,
And by what care to be affuag'd?
What gentle youth I would allure,

Whom in my artful toils fecure?
Who does thy tender heart subdue,
Tell me, my Sappho, tell me who?

VI.

Though now he shuns thy longing arms,
He soon shall court thy flighted charms;
Though now thy offerings he defpife,
He foon to thee fhall facrifice;

Though now he freeze, he foon fhall burn,
And be thy victim in his turn.

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I.

LESS'D as the immortal gods is he,

The youth who fondly fits by thee, And hears and fees thee all the while Softly speak, and fweetly finile.

II.

''Twas this depriv'd my foul of reft, And rais'd fuch tumults in my

breaft; For while I gaz'd, in transport tofs'd,

My breath was gone, my voice was lost.
III.

"My bofom glow'd; the fubtle flame

Ran quickly through all my vital frame;

O'er my

dim eyes a darkness hung,

My ears with hollow murmurs rung.

IV.

In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd,
My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd;
My feeble pulfe forgot to play,
I fainted, funk, and dy'd away.

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EPIS TL E S.

To a Friend, who defired me to write on the Death

of King William

338

From Holland to a Friend in England, in the

Year 1703.

333

To the Earl of Dorset

335

To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax,

one of the Lords Juftices appointed by his Ma-

jesty

To the Honourable James Craggs, Efq; Secre-

tary at War, at Hampton Court

To Lord Carteret, departing from Dublin

338

340

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To the Memory of the late Earl of Halifax

To the Honourable Mifs Carteret

On the Death of the Right Honourable William

Earl Cowper

354

To the Right Honourable William Pulteney, Esq; 361

To Mifs Margaret Pulteney, Daughter of Daniel

Pulteney, Efq; in the Nursery

363

To Mifs Charlotte Pulteney; in her Mother's

Arms

364

To the Right Honourable Robert Walpole, Efq; 365

Supplication to Mifs Carteret, in the Small-Pox

To Mifs Georgina, youngest Daughter to Lord

368

Carteret

369

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EPIGRAMS AND SHORT POEMS.

On a Company of bad Dancers to good Music

371

In anfwer to the Queftion, What is Thought?
To Mr. Addifon, on Cato

ibid.

372

On Wit and Wisdom; a Fragment

ibid.

my Kinf

373

375

Epitaph written on the Monument of
woman, at the Request of her Husband
The Fable of Thule, (unfinish'd.)

TRANSLATIONS.

The First Olympionique of Pindar. To Hiero of
Syracufe, victorious in the Horse-Race
The Second Olympionique. To Theron of Agri-
gentum, victorious in the Chariot-Race
The First Ode of Anaereon. On his Lute
The Second ditto. On Women

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388

396

ibid.

397

The Third ditto. On Love

An Hymn to Venus, from the Greek of Sappho, 398

A Fragment of Sappho

400

THE END OF A. PHILIPS'S POEMS.