450 TO CORDELIA. JULY, 1740. FROM pompous life's dull masquerade, From Pride's pursuits, and Passion's war, To thee and me may Heaven assign The joys of peace, unenvied, though divine! Safe in the calm embowering grove, In vain are all Contentment's charms, Turn and indulge a fairer view, Smile on the joys which here conspire; O prospect of enchanting things, As ever slumbering poet knew, When Love and Fancy wrapt him in their wings! Here, no rude storm of Passion blows, But Sports, and Smiles, and Virtues play, The air still breathes Contentment's balm, SONG.26 THE shape alone let others prize, The features of the fair: I look for spirit in her eyes, A damask cheek, an ivory arm, Give me an animated form, A face where awful honour shines, And angel innocence refines The tenderness of love. These are the soul of beauty's frame; Without whose vital aid, Unfinish'd all her features seem, And all her roses dead. But ah! where both their charms unite, Of power to charm the greatest woe, Their power but faintly to express And read it perfect there. ADDITIONAL NOTES TO THE MISCELLA NEOUS POEMS. 1. (p. 275.) Originally entitled, "Allusion to Horace," and first published in Odes on Several Subjects, 4to, 1745. 2. (p. 277.) First printed for private distribution, afterwards altered and published in Odes on Several Subjects, 4to, 1745. 3. (p. 283.) Originally entitled, "To a Gentleman whose Mistress had married an Old Man," and first published m Odes on Several Subjects, 4to, 1745. 4. (p. 287.) First published in Odes on Several Subjects, 4to, 1745. 5. (p. 289.) First published in Odes on Several Subjects, 4to, 1745. 6. (p. 297.) Composed in 1744, and first published in Odes on Several Subjects, 4to, 1745. 7. (p. 800.) Published in 4to, 1744, as "An Epistle to Curio," but afterwards altered into this Ode. 8. (p. 307.) First published in Odes on Several Subjects, 4to, 1745, and originally entitled, "On the Absence of the Poetic Inclination." 9. (p. 308.) First published in Odes on Several Subjects, 4to, 1745, and originally entitled, " To a Friend, on the Hazard of Falling in Love." 10. (p. 314.) First published in Odes on Several Subjects, 4to, 1745. 11. (p. 327.) First published in 4to, 1748. 12. (p. 341.) First published in Odes on Several Subjects, 4to, 1745. [It was afterwards much altered, and is here given as printed by Mr. Dyson. The copy in Pearch's Collection of Poems is not, as the last English editor thinks, different from Dyson's.] 13. (p. 355.) First published in Dodsley's Collection of Poems, Vol. VI., ed. 1758. 14. (p. 359.) First published in Dodsley's Collection of Poems, Vol. VI., ed. 1758. 15. (p. 361.) First published in May, 1766, in folio. 16. (p. 364.) First published in 4to, 1758. 17. (p. 882.) First published in Dodsley's Collection of Poems, Vol. VI., ed. 1758. 18. (p. 401.) I. VI. were first published in Dodsley's Col lection of Poems, Vol. VI., ed. 1758. 19. (p. 421.) First published in the Gentleman's Magazine, for April, 1737. 20. (p. 425.) First published in the Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1737. 21. (p. 429.) First published in the Gentleman's Magazine, for July, 1737. 22. (p. 435.) First published in the Gentleman's Magazine, for August, 1738. 23. (p. 441.) First published in the Gentleman's Magazine, for October, 1739. 24. (p. 445.) Printed about 1740 for private distribution, and first published in The New Foundling Hospital for Wit, Vol. VI. p. 23, ed. 1773. 25. (p. 450.) Found in an edition of Akenside's Works, published at New Brunswick (N. J.), in 2 vols., 1808 [edited by Mrs. Barbauld]. 26. (p. 451.) Attributed to Akenside by Ritson, English Songs, I. 207. THE END. |