THE STANDARD LIBRARY EDITION
By John Greenleaf Whittier
AN ON-LINE INDEX
PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT
VOLUME I. NARRATIVE AND LEGENDARY POEMS
VOLUME II. POEMS OF NATURE plus POEMS SUBJECTIVE AND REMINISCENT and RELIGIOUS POEMS
VOLUME III. ANTI-SLAVERY POEMS and SONGS OF LABOR AND REFORM
VOLUME IV. PERSONAL POEMS
VOLUME V. MARGARET SMITH'S JOURNAL, and TALES AND SKETCHES
VOLUME VI. OLD PORTRAITS AND MODERN SKETCHES, PERSONAL SKETCHES AND TRIBUTES and HISTORICAL PAPERS
THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE.
MORAL ESSAYS.
EPISTLE I. TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM. OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTERS OF MEN.
EPISTLE III. 20 TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST. OF THE USE OF RICHES.
EPISTLE IV. TO RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON. OF THE USE OF RICHES.
EPISTLE V. TO MR ADDISON. OCCASIONED BY HIS DIALOGUES ON MEDALS. 54
TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS. SAPPHO TO PHAON. FROM THE FIFTEENTH OF OVID'S EPISTLES.
THE FABLE OF DRYOPE. 56 FROM THE NINTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.
VERTUMNUS AND POMONA, FROM THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.
THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS'S THEBAIS. TRANSLATED IN THE YEAR 1703.
JANUARY AND MAY. FROM CHAUCER. 58
THE WIFE OF BATH, HER PROLOGUE. FROM CHAUCER.
PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUES
A PROLOGUE TO A PLAY FOR MR DENNIS'S BENEFIT, IN 1733, WHEN HE
PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON'S 'CATO.'
PROLOGUE TO THOMSON'S 'SOPHONISBA.' 59
PROLOGUE, DESIGNED FOR MR D'URFEY'S LAST PLAY.
PROLOGUE TO 'THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE'
EPILOGUE TO MR ROWE'S 'JANE SHORE.' DESIGNED FOR MRS OLDFIELD.
MISCELLANIES
THE BASSET-TABLE. 62 AN ECLOGUE.
LINES ON RECEIVING FROM THE EIGHT HON. THE LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY 63 A STANDISH AND TWO PENS.
VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. UN JOUR DIT UN AUTEUR, ETC.
ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS HOWE.
OCCASIONED BY SOME VERSES OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
MACER: A CHARACTER.
SONG, BY A PERSON OF QUALITY, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1733.
ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT.
ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM, COMPOSED OF MARBLES, SPARS, GEMS, ORES, AND MINERALS.
ROXANA, OR THE DRAWING-ROOM. AN ECLOGUE.
TO LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE.
EXTEMPORANEOUS LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, PAINTED BY KNELLER.
LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI, WHEN SHE TOOK LEAVE OF THE ENGLISH STAGE.
UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S HOUSE AT WOODSTOCK.
VERSES LEFT BY MR POPE. ON HIS LYING IN THE SAME BED WHICH
THE CHALLENGE, A COURT BALLAD. TO THE TUNE OF 'TO ALL YOU LADIES NOW AT LAND.'
THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS.
EPIGRAM, ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS.
THE TRANSLATOR.
THE LOOKING-GLASS. ON MRS PULTENEY. 81
A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715.
SANDYS' GHOST; 82 OR, A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID'S
UMBRA. 85
SYLVIA, A FRAGMENT.
IMPROMPTU TO LADY WINCHELSEA. OCCASIONED BY FOUR SATIRICAL
EPIGRAM.
EPIGRAM ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI.
ON MRS TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER.
THE BALANCE OF EUROPE.
EPITAPH ON LORD CONINGSBY.
EPIGRAM. (2)
EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH.
EPITAPH ON GAY.
EPIGRAM ON THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB, ANNO 1716.
TO A LADY, WITH THE 'TEMPLE OF FAME.'
ON THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON CUTTING PAPER.
ON DRAWINGS OF THE STATUES OF APOLLO, VENUS, AND HERCULES, MADE FOR POPE BY SIR GODFREY KNELLER.
ON BENTLEY'S 'MILTON.'
LINES WRITTEN IN WINDSOR FOREST.
TO ERINNA.
A DIALOGUE.
ODE TO QUINBUS FLESTRIN, THE MAN MOUNTAIN, 87 BY TITTY TIT,
THE LAMENTATION OF GLUMDALCLITCH FOR THE LOSS OF GRILDRIG. A PASTORAL.
TO MR LEMUEL GULLIVER, THE GRATEFUL ADDRESS OF THE UNHAPPY
MARY GULLIVER TO CAPTAIN LEMUEL GULLIVER. AN EPISTLE.
1740. A FRAGMENT OF A POEM.
THE FOURTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE. 128
EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS. 129
ON AN OLD GATE. ERECTED IN CHISWICK GARDENS.
A FRAGMENT.
TO MR GAY, WHO HAD CONGRATULATED POPE ON FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS.
ARGUS.
PRAYER OF BRUTUS. FROM GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH.
LINES ON A GROTTO, AT CRUX-EASTON, HANTS.
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER, DEO OPT. MAX.
THE DUNCIAD. IN FOUR BOOKS.
A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER, OCCASIONED BY THE FIRST CORRECT EDITION OF THE DUNCIAD.
MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS HIS PROLEGOMENA AND ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE
TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS CONCERNING OUR POET AND HIS WORKS. M. SCRIBLERUS LECTORI S.
THE DUNCIAD: 234 BOOK THE FIRST. TO DR JONATHAN SWIFT. ARGUMENT.
BOOK THE SECOND. ARGUMENT.
BOOK THE THIRD. ARGUMENT.
BOOK THE FOURTH. ARGUMENT.
BY THE AUTHOR. A DECLARATION.
APPENDIX TO THE DUNCIAD. I. PREFACE
INDEX OF PERSONS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM.
CHAPTER I FROM THE 5TH OF MAY, 1789, TO THE NIGHT OF THE 4TH OF AUGUST
CHAPTER II FROM THE NIGHT OF THE 4TH OF AUGUST TO THE 5TH AND 6TH OF OCTOBER, 1789
CHAPTER III FROM THE 6TH OF OCTOBER, 1789, TO THE DEATH OF MIRABEAU, APRIL, 1791
CHAPTER IV FROM APRIL, 1791, TO THE 3OTH SEPTEMBER. THE END OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
THE NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
CHAPTER VII FROM THE 21ST OF JANUARY, 1793, TO THE 2ND OF JUNE
CHAPTER VIII FROM THE 2ND OF JUNE, 1793, TO APRIL, 1794
CHAPTER IX FROM THE DEATH OF DANTON, APRIL, 1794, TO THE 9TH THERMIDOR, (27TH JULY, 1794)
CHAPTER X FROM THE 9TH THERMIDOR TO THE 1ST PRAIRIAL, YEAR III.
CHAPTER XI FROM THE 1ST PRAIRIAL (20TH OF MAY, 1795) TO THE 4TH
THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY
CHAPTER XII FROM THE INSTALLATION OF THE DIRECTORY, ON THE 27TH
CHAPTER XIII FROM THE 18TH FRUCTIDOR, IN THE YEAR V. (4TH OF
THE CONSULATE
CHAPTER XIV
THE EMPIRE
CHAPTER XV FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EMPIRE, 1804-1814
