ON A MISER. HEY call thee rich-I deem thee poor, Since, if thou dar'st not use thy store, But sav'st it only for thine heirs, The treasure is not thine, but theirs. ON FEMALE INCONSTANCY. RICH, hadst hast none, So surely want extinguishes the flame, And she, who call'd thee once her pretty one, And her Adonis, now inquires thy name. Where wast thou born, Sosicrates, and where, YOU ON A CHARACTER. You give your cheeks a rosy stain, With washes dye your hair, But paint and washes both are vain Those wrinkles mock your daily toil, You wear a mask of smoothest oil, An art so fruitless then forsake, ON ENVY. says the Theban bard, Envy, let me rather be, BY PHILEMON. FT we enhance our ills by discontent, OF And give them bulk, beyond what Nature meant A parent, brother, friend deceased, to cry— Who thus laments his loss invites distress, EPIGRAMS. Translated from the Latin of Owen. ON ONE IGNORANT AND ARROGANT. THOU mayst of double ign'rance boast, PRUDENT SIMPLICITY. THAT thou mayst injure no man, dove-like be, TO A FRIEND IN DISTRESS. I WISH thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend; For when at worst, they say, things always mend. WHEN little more than boy in age, SUNSET AND SUNRISE. CONTEMPLATE, when the sun declines, Thy day of resurrection! Translations from the French of Madame De La Mothe Guyon. LOVE FAITHFUL IN THE ABSENCE OF THE BELOVED. N vain ye woo me to your harmless joys, noise; strife and Your shades, the witnesses of many a vow, In vain he leaves me, I shall love him still; THE ENTIRE SURRENDER. EACE has unveil'd her smiling face, PEACE And woos thy soul to her embrace, Yield to the Lord, with simple heart, Renounce all strength but strength divine, My path, till I go home to God. I THE PERFECT SACRIFICE. PLACE an offering at Thy shrine. I yield Thee back Thy gifts again, The notice of Thine eyes. But if, by Thine adored decree, Thy will in all things I approve, Thy will in every state I love, |