Such likeness in his fucceffor we find, Left as the image of himself behind; With all the virtues of his race endued; 345 The happy father's in the fon renew’d. -350 Methinks I fee a pompous tomb arise, Beauteous the form, magnificent the fize: Enchas'd with ore, with well-wrought marble made, Worthy the artift, and the glorious fhade. Crowds of officious angels weep around, With lamps extinguish'd, and their robes unbound! With heads reclin'd, and drooping wings they mourn, Form'd to fuftain, and grace the ponderous urn. In abject postures, and a flowing dress, Postures that love and tenderness express: The facred Nine furround the spacious tomb, And spread infectious forrows o'er the dome; Their lyres unftrung are thrown neglected by, And scatter'd wreaths in just disorder lie. in every line appears, High in the midft is his effigies plac'd, 355 360 365 370 A nobler monument remains behind, 375 This fhall diffufe his celebrated name, Elude his fate, and triumph o'er the grave. More than the hundred tongues of bufy fame: 380 CON CONTENT S O F YAL DEN'S POEM S. Against immoderate Grief. To a young Lady weeping. An Ode in Imitation of Cafimire Hymn to the Morning, in Praise of Light Hymn to Darkness 351 353 355 Human Life, fuppofed to be spoken by an Epicure. In Imitation of the fecond Chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon Against Enjoyment 359 363 The Curfe of Babylon. Ifaiah Chap. xiii. paraphrased 365 An epiftolary Ode, 1693. Occa To Mr. Congreve. fioned by the Old Bachelor The Infect; against Bulk 371 374 To his Friend Captain Chamberlain, in Love with a Lady he had taken in an Algerine Prize at Sea. In Allufion to Horace, Ode ii. 4. 376 To Mr. Watson, on his Ephemeris of the Celestial Motions, presented to her Majesty 378 The Rape of Theutilla. Imitated from the Latin of Fa mianus Strada. Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, 1693. 380 386 The Patroclus's Request to Achilles for his Arms. Imitated from the Beginning of the 16th Il ad of Homer 396 On the re-printing of Milton's Profe Works, with his To Sir Humphry Mackworth, on the Mines late Ovid's Art of Love. Book II. Effay on the Character of Sir Willoughby Afton THE END OF YALDEN'S POEMS. |