Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II
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- POEMS OF HENRY VAUGHAN SILURIST. Vol. II.
- POEMS OF HENRY VAUGHAN SILURIST
- EDITED BY E. K. CHAMBERS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CANON BEECHING
- VOL. II.
- LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LIMITED NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- (a) THE VAUGHAN GENEALOGY.
- (b) VAUGHAN AND JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD.
- (c) VAUGHAN IN THE CIVIL WAR.
- (d) THOMAS VAUGHAN.
- FOOTNOTES:
- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HENRY VAUGHAN'S WORKS.
- (1)
- (2)
- (3)
- (4)
- (5)
- (6)
- (7)
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- POEMS, WITH THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL ENGLISHED. 1646.
- TO ALL INGENIOUS LOVERS OF POESY.
- TO MY INGENUOUS FRIEND, R. W.
- LES AMOURS
- TO AMORET.
- The Sigh.
- TO HIS FRIEND BEING IN LOVE.
- SONG.
- FOOTNOTES:
- TO AMORET.
- Walking in a Starry Evening.
- FOOTNOTES:
- TO AMORET GONE FROM HIM.
- A SONG TO AMORET.
- FOOTNOTES:
- AN ELEGY.
- A RHAPSODIS:
- TO AMORET, OF THE DIFFERENCE 'TWIXT HIM AND OTHER LOVERS, AND WHAT TRUE LOVE IS.
- TO AMORET WEEPING.
- UPON THE PRIORY GROVE, HIS USUAL RETIREMENT.
- JUVENAL'S TENTH SATIRE TRANSLATED.
- FOOTNOTES:
- OLOR ISCANUS. 1651.
- AD POSTEROS.
- TO THE TRULY NOBLE AND MOST EXCELLENTLY ACCOMPLISHED, THE LORD KILDARE DIGBY.
- THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER.
- UPON THE MOST INGENIOUS PAIR OF TWINS, EUGENIUS PHILALETHES, AND THE AUTHOR OF THESE POEMS.
- TO MY FRIEND THE AUTHOR UPON THESE HIS POEMS.
- UPON THE FOLLOWING POEMS.
- TO THE RIVER ISCA.
- THE CHARNEL-HOUSE.
- IN AMICUM FŒNERATOREM.
- TO HIS FRIEND ——
- TO HIS RETIRED FRIEND, AN INVITATION TO BRECKNOCK.
- MONSIEUR GOMBAULD.
- FOOTNOTES:
- AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MR. R. W., SLAIN IN THE LATE UNFORTUNATE DIFFERENCES AT ROUTON HEATH, NEAR CHESTER, 1645.
- UPON A CLOAK LENT HIM BY MR. J. RIDSLEY.
- UPON MR. FLETCHER'S PLAYS, PUBLISHED 1647.
- UPON THE POEMS AND PLAYS OF THE EVER-MEMORABLE MR. WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT.
- TO THE BEST AND MOST ACCOMPLISHED COUPLE ——
- AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MR. R. HALL, SLAIN AT PONTEFRACT, 1648.
- TO MY LEARNED FRIEND, MR. T. POWELL, UPON HIS TRANSLATION OF MALVEZZI'S CHRISTIAN POLITICIAN.
- TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, MASTER T. LEWES.
- TO THE MOST EXCELLENTLY ACCOMPLISHED MRS. K. PHILIPS.
- AN EPITAPH UPON THE LADY ELIZABETH, SECOND DAUGHTER TO HIS LATE MAJESTY.
- TO SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT UPON HIS GONDIBERT.
- TRANSLATIONS FROM OVID
- [OVID,] TRISTIUM, LIB. V. ELEG. III. TO HIS FELLOW-POETS AT ROME, UPON THE BIRTHDAY OF BACCHUS.
- [OVID, EPISTOLARUM] DE PONTO, LIB. III. [EPIST. VII.]. TO HIS FRIENDS—AFTER HIS MANY SOLICITATIONS—REFUSING TO PETITION CÆSAR FOR HIS RELEASEMENT.
- [OVID, EPISTOLARUM] DE PONTO, LIB. IV. EPIST. III. TO HIS INCONSTANT FRIEND, TRANSLATED FOR THE USE OF ALL THE JUDASES OF THIS TOUCHSTONE-AGE.
- [OVID,] TRISTIUM, LIB. III. ELEG. III. TO HIS WIFE AT ROME, WHEN HE WAS SICK.
- AUSONII. IDYLL VI. CUPIDO [CRUCI AFFIXUS].
- BOET[HIUS, DE CONSOLATIONE]
- LIB. I. METRUM I.
- METRUM II.
- METRUM IV.
- METRUM V.
- METRUM VI.
- METRUM VII.
- LIB. II. METRUM I.
- METRUM II.
- METRUM III.
- METRUM IV.
- METRUM V.
- METRUM VII.
- 2
- 3
- 4
- METRUM VIII.
- CASIMIRUS, [LYRICORUM] LIB. IV. ODE XXVIII.
- CASIMIRUS, [LYRICORUM] LIB. II. ODE VII.
- CASIMIRUS, [LYRICORUM] LIB. III. ODE XXII.
- CASIMIRUS, LYRIC[ORUM] LIB. III. ODE XXIII.
- CASIMIRUS, [LYRICORUM] LIB. IV. ODE XV.
- CASIMIRUS, [LYRICORUM] LIB. IV. ODE XIII.
- THE PRAISE OF A RELIGIOUS LIFE BY MATHIAS CASIMIRUS. [EPODON ODE III.] IN ANSWER TO THAT ODE OF HORACE, BEATUS ILLE QUI PROCUL NEGOTIIS, &c.
- AD FLUVIUM ISCAM.
- VENERABILI VIRO PRÆCEPTORI SUO OLIM ET SEMPER COLENDISSIMO MAGISTRO MATHÆO HERBERT.
- PRÆSTANTISSIMO VIRO THOMÆ POËLLO IN SUUM DE ELEMENTIS OPTICÆ LIBELLUM.[56]
- FOOTNOTES:
- AD ECHUM.
- THALIA REDIVIVA. 1678.
- TO THE MOST HONOURABLE AND TRULY NOBLE HENRY, LORD MARQUIS AND EARL OF WORCESTER, &c.
- TO THE READER.
- TO MR. HENRY VAUGHAN THE SILURIST: UPON THESE AND HIS FORMER POEMS.[58]
- FOOTNOTES:
- UPON THE INGENIOUS POEMS OF HIS LEARNED FRIEND, MR. HENRY VAUGHAN, THE SILURIST.
- TO THE INGENIOUS AUTHOR OF THALIA REDIVIVA.
- Ode I.
- II.
- III.
- FOOTNOTES:
- TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, MR. HENRY VAUGHAN THE SILURIST.
- CHOICE POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
- TO HIS LEARNED FRIEND AND LOYAL FELLOW-PRISONER, THOMAS POWEL OF CANT[REFF], DOCTOR OF DIVINITY.
- THE KING DISGUISED.
- THE EAGLE.
- TO MR. M. L. UPON HIS REDUCTION OF THE PSALMS INTO METHOD.
- TO THE PIOUS MEMORY OF C[HARLES] W[ALBEOFFE] ESQUIRE, WHO FINISHED HIS COURSE HERE, AND MADE HIS ENTRANCE INTO IMMORTALITY UPON THE 13 OF SEPTEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF REDEMPTION, 1653.
- IN ZODIACUM MARCELLI PALINGENII.
- TO LYSIMACHUS, THE AUTHOR BEING WITH HIM IN LONDON.
- ON SIR THOMAS BODLEY'S LIBRARY, THE AUTHOR BEING THEN IN OXFORD.
- THE IMPORTUNATE FORTUNE, WRITTEN TO DR. POWEL, OF CANTRE[FF].
- TO I. MORGAN OF WHITEHALL, ESQ., UPON HIS SUDDEN JOURNEY AND SUCCEEDING MARRIAGE.
- FIDA; OR, THE COUNTRY BEAUTY. TO LYSIMACHUS.
- FIDA FORSAKEN.
- TO THE EDITOR OF THE MATCHLESS ORINDA.
- UPON SUDDEN NEWS OF THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF JUDGE TREVERS.
- TO ETESIA (FOR TIMANDER); THE FIRST SIGHT.
- THE CHARACTER, TO ETESIA.
- TO ETESIA LOOKING FROM HER CASEMENT AT THE FULL MOON.
- FOOTNOTES:
- TO ETESIA PARTED FROM HIM, AND LOOKING BACK.
- IN ETESIAM LACHRYMANTEM.
- FOOTNOTES:
- TO ETESIA GOING BEYOND SEA.
- ETESIA ABSENT.
- TRANSLATIONS.
- SOME ODES OF THE EXCELLENT AND KNOWING [ANICIUS MANLIUS] SEVERINUS [BOETHIUS], ENGLISHED.
- [DE CONSOLATIONE] LIB. III. METRUM XII.
- LIB. III. METRUM II.
- LIB. IV. METRUM VI.
- LIB. IV. METRUM III.
- LIB. III. METRUM VI.
- THE OLD MAN OF VERONA OUT OF CLAUDIAN, [EPIGRAMMA II.]
- THE SPHERE OF ARCHIMEDES OUT OF CLAUDIAN, [EPIGRAMMA XVIII.]
- THE PHŒNIX OUT OF CLAUDIAN, [IDYLL I.]
- PIOUS THOUGHTS AND EJACULATIONS.
- TO HIS BOOKS.
- LOOKING BACK.
- THE SHOWER.
- DISCIPLINE.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE ECLIPSE.
- AFFLICTION.
- RETIREMENT.
- THE REVIVAL.
- THE DAY SPRING.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE RECOVERY.
- I.
- II.
- THE NATIVITY.
- THE TRUE CHRISTMAS.
- THE REQUEST.
- JORDANIS.
- SERVILII FATUM, SIVE VINDICTA DIVINA.
- FOOTNOTES:
- DE SALMONE
- THE WORLD.
- THE BEE.
- TO CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
- DAPHNIS.
- Damon.
- Menalcas.
- Damon.
- Menalcas.
- Damon.
- Menalcas.
- Damon.
- Menalcas.
- Damon.
- Menalcas.
- Damon.
- Menalcas.
- Damon.
- Menalcas.
- Damon.
- FRAGMENTS AND TRANSLATIONS.
- [TO CHARLES THE FIRST.]
- 1. [HOMER. ILIAD, I. 255-6.]
- 2. [AESCHYLUS. SEPTEM CONTRA THEBES, 600-1.]
- 3. [EURIPIDES. ORESTES, 251-2.]
- 4. [EURIPIDES. FRAGM. MLXXI.]
- 5. [EURIPIDES. CRESPHONTES, FRAGM. CCCCLV.]
- 6. [INCERTI.]
- 7. [PINDAR. FRAGM. C.]
- 8. [SOLON. FRAGM. XV.]
- 1. [HOMER. ILIAD, XVII. 446-7.]
- 2. [EURIPIDES. BACCHAE, 1170-4.]
- 1. [ARIPHRON.]
- 1. [DEATH.]
- 2. [HADRIAN'S ADDRESS TO HIS SOUL.]
- 3. [PAULINUS. CARM. APP. I. 35-40.]
- 4. [ANEURIN. ENGLYNION Y MISOEDD, III. 1-4.]
- 5. [INCERTI.]
- 6. [JUVENAL. SATIRE XIII. 86-8.]
- 7. [INCERTI.]
- 8. [VIRGIL. GEORGICS, IV. 12-138.]
- 9. [VIRGIL. AENEID, III. 515.]
- 10. [VIRGIL. GEORGICS, II. 58.]
- 1. [ANSELM.]
- 1. [BISSELLIUS.]
- 2. [AUGURELLIUS.]
- 1. [INCERTI.]
- 2. [LUCRETIUS, IV. 1012-1020.]
- 3. [INCERTI.]
- 4. [INCERTI.]
- 5. [INCERTI.]
- 6. [MAXIMUS.]
- 7. [MAXIMUS.]
- 8. [GREGORY NAZIANZEN.]
- 9. [MARIUS VICTOR.]
- 10. [INCERTI.]
- 11. [THEODOTUS.]
- 12. [INCERTI.]
- 13. [INCERTI.]
- 14. [INCERTI.]
- 15. [INCERTI.]
- 16. [MENANDER.]
- 17. [INCERTI.]
- 18. [INCERTI.]
- 19. [DIONYSIUS LYRINENSIS.]
- 20. [INCERTI.]
- 1. [INCERTI.]
- 2. [INCERTI.]
- 3. [MIMNERMUS.]
- 4. [INCERTI.]
- 5. [JUVENAL. SATIRE X. 278-286.]
- 6. [MENANDER. FRAGM. CXXVIII.]
- 7. [INCERTI.]
- 1. [AUSONIUS. EPIST. XXIV. 115-16.]
- 2. [AUSONIUS. EPIST. XXIII. 30-1; XXV. 5-9, 14, 17.]
- 3. [PAULINUS. CARM. XI. 1-5; X. 189-92.]
- 4. [PAULINUS. CARM. XXXI. 581-2, 585-90, 601-2, 607-12.]
- 5. [AUSONIUS. EPIST. XXV. 50, 56-7, 60-2.]
- 6. [PAULINUS. CARM. X. 110-331.]
- 7. [PAULINUS.]
- 8. [EPITAPH ON MARCELLINA.]
- 9. [PAULINUS. VERSUS APUD EPIST. XXXII. 3.]
- 10. [PAULINUS. VERSUS APUD EPIST. XXXII. 5.]
- 11. [PAULINUS. VERSUS APUD EPIST. XXXII. 12.]
- 12. [PAULINUS. VERSUS APUD EPIST. XXXII. 14.]
- 13. [PAULINUS. CARM. XXVII. 387-92.]
- 14. [PAULINUS. VERSUS APUD EPIST. XXXII. 17.]
- 15. [PAULINUS.]
- 16. [PAULINUS (?). CARM. APP. I.]
- FOOTNOTES:
- 1. [HORACE. EPIST. I. 1, 14-5.]
- 2. [INCERTI.]
- 3. [INCERTI.]
- 4. [JUVENAL. SATIRE XV. 160-164.]
- 5. [JUVENAL. SATIRE XV. 169-171.]
- 6. [INCERTI.]
- 1. [THE LORD'S PRAYER.]
- 1. [CAMPION. EPIGR. I. 151.]
- 2. [GROTIUS. LIB. EPIGR. II.]
- 3. [JUVENAL. SATIRE III.]
- 4. [MARTIAL. EPIGR. I. 105.]
- NOTES TO VOL. II.
- POEMS WITH THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL ENGLISHED.
- P. 5. To my Ingenious Friend, R. W.
- P. 6. Randolph.
- P. 8. Les Amours.
- P. 10. To Amoret.
- P. 12. Song.
- P. 13. To Amoret.
- P. 18. A Rhapsodis.
- P. 21. To Amoret.
- P. 23. To Amoret Weeping.
- P. 26. Upon the Priory Grove, his usual Retirement.
- P. 28. Juvenal's Tenth Satire Translated.
- OLOR ISCANUS.
- P. 52. Ad Posteros.
- P. 53. To the ... Lord Kildare Digby.
- P. 54. The Publisher to the Reader.
- P. 57. Commendatory Verses.
- P. 61. Olor Iscanus.
- P. 65. The Charnel-house.
- P. 70. To his Friend ——.
- P. 73. To his retired Friend—an Invitation to Brecknock.
- P. 77. Monsieur Gombauld.
- P. 79. An Elegy on the Death of Mr. R. W., slain in the late unfortunate differences at Routon Heath, near Chester.
- P. 83. Upon a Cloak lent him by Mr. J. Ridsley.
- P. 86. Upon Mr. Fletcher's Plays.
- P. 90. Upon the Poems and Plays of the ever-memorable Mr. William Cartwright.
- P. 94. An Elegy on the Death of Mr. R. Hall, slain at Pontefract, 1648.
- P. 97. To my learned Friend, Mr. T. Powell, upon his Translation of Malvezzi's "Christian Politician."
- P. 99. To my worthy Friend, Master T. Lewes.
- P. 100. To the most excellently accomplished Mrs. K. Philips.
- P. 102. An Epitaph upon the Lady Elizabeth, Second Daughter to his late Majesty.
- P. 104. To Sir William Davenant, upon his Gondibert.
- P. 119. Cupido [Cruci Affixus].
- P. 125. Translations from Boethius.
- P. 144. Translations from Casimirus.
- P. 158. Venerabili viro, praeceptori suo olim et semper colendissimo Magistro Mathaeo Herbert.
- P. 159. Praestantissimo viro Thomae Poëllo in suum de Elementis Opticæ Libellum.
- THALIA REDIVIVA.
- P. 163. The Epistle-Dedicatory.
- P. 164. Commendatory Verses.
- P. 178. To his Learned Friend and loyal Fellow-prisoner, Thomas Powel of Cant[reff], Doctor of Divinity.
- P. 181. The King Disguised.
- P. 187. To Mr. M. L., upon his Reduction of the Psalms into Method.
- P. 189. To the pious Memory of C[harles] W[albeoffe] Esquire.
- P. 193. In Zodiacum Marcelli Palingenii.
- P. 195. To Lysimachus.
- P. 197. On Sir Thomas Bodley's Library.
- P. 200. The Importunate Fortune.
- P. 204. To I. Morgan, of Whitehall, Esq.
- P. 211. To the Editor of the Matchless Orinda.
- P. 213. Upon Sudden News of the Much Lamented Death of Judge Trevers.
- P. 214. To Etesia (for Timander) The First Sight.
- P. 224. Translations from Severinus.
- P. 245. Pious Thoughts and Ejaculations.
- P. 261. The True Christmas.
- P. 267. De Salmone.
- P. 272. The Bee.
- P. 278. Daphnis.
- FRAGMENTS AND TRANSLATIONS.
- P. 289. From Eucharistica Oxoniensia.
- P. 291. Translations from Plutarch and Maximus Tyrius.
- P. 294. From the Mount of Olives.
- P. 298. From Man in Glory.
- P. 299. From Flores Solitudinis.
- P. 307. From Primitive Holiness.
- P. 322. From Hermetical Physic.
- P. 323. From Cerbyd Fechydwiaeth.
- P. 324. From Humane Industry.
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