So furely want extinguishes the flame, And the who call'd thee once her pretty one, And her Adonis, now inquires thy name. Where waft thou born, Soficrates, and where In what strange country can thy parents live, Who seem'ft, by thy complaints, not yet aware That want's a crime no woman can forgive? ON THE GRASSHOPPER. APPY fongfter, perch'd above, With the freedom of a king. None thy pleasures can create. Herald of the genial hours, ON HERMOCRATIA. ERMOCRATIA named-save only one, "Twice fifteen births I bore, and buried none; For neither Phœbus pierced my thriving joys, Thy boast against Latona fhamed by me! FROM MENANDER. OND youth! who dream'st that hoarded Is needful, not alone to pay Bread, vinegar, and oil, and meat, No treasure, hadft thou more amaff'd I give thee, therefore, counsel wife; But in thy more exalted state A just and equal temper show, That all who see thee rich and great May deem thee worthy to be fo. ON PALLAS BATHING, FROM A HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS. OR oils of balmy fcent produce, Ye nymphs who lave her; fhe, array'd In genuine beauty, fcorns their aid. Not even when they left the fkies To feek on Ida's head the prize Of Simois' ftream her locks to trace, TO DEMOSTHENES. T flatters and deceives thy view, Thou wouldst confult it never more. ON A SIMILAR CHARACTER. OU give your cheeks a rofy ftain, Those wrinkles mock your daily toil, You wear a mask of smootheft oil, An art fo fruitlefs then forfake, ON AN UGLY FELLOW. EWARE, my friend! of crystal brook, Or fountain, left that hideous hook, Thy nofe, thou chance to fee; Narciffus' fate would then be thine, And self-detefted thou wouldst pine, As felf-enamour'd he. |