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The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, With Memoirs [
The Poetical Works of Johnson Parnell Gray and Smollett With Memoirs Author:Samuel Johnson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 4 In groundless hope and causeless fear, Unhappy man ! behold thy doom ; Still changing with the changeful year, The slave of sunshine and of gloom. 5 Tired with vain joys, and false alarms, With mental and corporeal strife, Snatch me, my Stella, to thy arms, And screen me from the ills of life ! TO MISS ON HEE GIVING THE AUTHOR A GOLD AND SILK NETWORK PURSE OF HER OWN WEAVING. Though gold and silk their charms unite To make thy curious web delight, In vain the varied work would shine If wrought by any hand but thine -- Thy hand that knows the subtler art, To weave those nets that catch the heart. Spread out by me, the roving coin Thy nets may catch, but not confine ; Nor can I hope thy silken chain The glittering vagrants shall restrain ; Why, Stella, was it then decreed, The heart once caught, should ne'er be freed 1 EPIGRAM ON GEORGE II. AND COLLEY C1BBER, ESQ. Augustus still survives in Maro's strain, And Spenser's verse prolongs Eliza's reign ; Great George's acts let tuneful Gibber sing, For Nature form'd the poet for the king. STELLA IN MOURNING. When lately Stella's form display'd The beauties of the gay brocade, The nymphs, who found their power decline, Proclaim'd her not so fair as fine. ' Fate ! snatch away the bright disguise, And let the goddess trust her eyes.' Thus blindly pray'd the fretful fair, And Fate, malicious, heard the prayer ; But brighten'd by the sable dress, As Virtue rises in distress, Since Stella still extends her reign, Ah! how shall Envy soothe her pain The adoring Youth and envious Fair, Henceforth shall...« less