M. S. GULIELMI SHENSTONE! Ah! Gulielme, Ac corde quam maxime benigno Prædite, Marte, eheu præmaturâ obrepte, "Quanto minus eft, "Cum aliis verfari, "Quam tui meminiffe!" T. H. Extract from Mr. MASON'S " English Garden," Book I. -Nor, Shenftone, thou Shalt pass without thy meed, thou fon of peace! CON CONTENT S. I. ELEGIES on feveral Occafions. A Prefatory Effay on Elegy. Page 3 ELEGY I. He arrives at his retirement in the country, and takes occafion to expatiate in praise of fimplicity. To a friend. 13 15 16 II. On Pofthumous Reputation. To a Friend. III. On the untimely death of a certain learned acquaintance. IV. Ophelia's Urn. To Mr. Graves. 18 20 21 23 V. He compares the turbulence of love with the tranquillity of friendship. To Melissa his friend. VI. To a Lady, on the language of Birds. VII. He defcribes his vifion to an acquaintance. VIII. He defcribes his early love of poetry, and its confequences. To Mr. Graves, 1745. 26 IX. He defcribes his difinterestedness to a friend. 28 X. To fortune, fuggefting his motive for repining at her difpenfations. XI. He complains how foon the pleafing novelty of life is over. To Mr. Jago. XII. His recantation. 30 32 34 35 XIII. To a friend, on fome flight occafion eftranged from him. XIV. Declining an invitation to vifit foreign countries, he takes occafion to intimate the advantages of his own. To Lord Temple. 37 XV. In memory of a private family in Worcester hire. 40 XVI. XVI. He fuggefts the advantages of birth to a perfon XVIII. He repeats the fong of Collin, a difcerning XX. He compares his humble fortune with the dif- treffes, of others, and his fubjection to Delia with the miferable fervitude of an African flave. XXI. Taking a view of the country from his retire- fepulture were fo frequently violated. XXIII. Reflections suggested by his fituation. - 65 XXIV. He takes occafion, from the fate of Eleanor of Bretagne, to fuggeft the imperfect pleafures of a XXV. To Delia, with fome flowers; complaining how much his benevolence fuffers on account of his II. ODES, SONGS, BALLADS, &c. Written in a Flower Book of my own colouring, de- III Songs, written chiefly between the years 1737 and A Paftoral Ode, to the Honourable Sir Richard Lyt- Ode to Cynthia, on the approach of Spring. Jemmy Dawfon, a ballad; written about the time of his execution, in the year 1745- A Paftoral Ballad, in four parts. III. LEVITIES, or PIECES of HUMOUR. |