As late on Virgil's tomb fresh flow'rs I ftrow'd, Great Bard, whose numbers I my self inspire, No more let meaner Satire dim the rays But fhun that thorny, that unpleafing way; 45 50 55 60 65 Of thee more worthy were the task, to raise A lafting Column to thy Country's Praise, To fing the Land, which yet, alone can boast That Liberty corrupted Rome has loft; Where Science in the arms of Peace is laid, And plants her Palm beneath the Olive's fhade. Such was the Theme for which my lyre I ftrung, Such was the People whofe exploits I fung; Brave, yet refin'd, for Arms and Arts renown'd, With different bays, by Mars and Phoebus crown'd, 70 Dauntless oppofers of Tyrannic Sway, But pleas'd, a mild AUGUSTUS to obey. 2 If If thefe commands fubmiffive thou receive, 75 GEORGE LYTTELTON. THE THE TABLE. VÖL. I. Confifting of the Author's Original Poems, written under 25 years of age. T HE General Preface. pag. 5 PASTORALS, with a Discourse on Pastoral, written. 1704. 17 55 MESSIAH, a facred Eclogue, in imitation of Virgil's 65 ODE for St. Cecilia's day, and other Pieces for Music. 87 written 1712. ELOISA to ABELARD, an Epistle. ELEGY to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. VOL. II. 101 Poem, An ESSAY ON MAN, being the firft Book of ETHIC Epift. i. To Sir Rich. Temple, Lord Vif. Cobham. Epift. Epift. 3. To Allen Lord Bathurst. Epift. 4. To Richard Earl of Burlington. EPISTLES, the third Book. Epift. 1. To Robert Earl of Oxford. SATIRES OF HORACE imitated. VOL. III. The TEMPLE of FAME, a Vision, imitated from Chaucer. TRANSLATION S. January and May, from Chaucer. The Fable of Dryope, from Ovid. Vertumnus and Pomona, from Ovid. VOL. IV. The DUNCIA D, an Heroic Poem, in three books, to Dr. Jonathan Swift. |