HARVARD

COLLEGE

LIBRARY

THE

WORKS

OF

WILLIAM MASON, M. A.

VOL. I.

CONTAINING

MUSÆUS, ODes, elegies, SONNETS, EPITAPHS, MISCELLANIES, THE ENGLISH GARDEN WITH COMMENTARY AND NOTES, RELIGIO CLERICI, HYMNS, AND SELECT PSALMS VERSIFIED.

VOL. I.

CONTENTS

OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

-SONNET to the Earl of Holdernesse.

Musæus; a Monody to the Memory of Mr. Pope

ODES.

1 To Memory

2 To a Water-Nymph

3 On leaving St. John's College, Cambridge

4 On expecting to return to Cambridge

5 For Music

6 To Independency

7 To a Friend

8 On the Fate of Tyranny

9 To an Æolus's Harp

10 For Music

11 Ode

12 To the Naval Officers of Great Britain

13 Ode

-14 To the Honourable William Pitt

15 Ode, Secular

16 Palinodia

*17 Ode to Wisdom

ELEGIES.

1 To a young Nobleman leaving the University

-2 To Miss Pelham on the Death of her Father

3 Written in the Garden of a Friend

4 To the Rev. Mr. Hurd, with Caractacus

5 On the Death of a Lady

On viewing a Church-yard in South Wales

* Those marked with an asterisk are now first published

CONTENTS.

SONNETS.

1 To a young Lady with Dodsley's Miscellanies

2 To a Friend on the Morning of his Marriage

3 Written in August, 1773

4 To the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1776

5 To a very young Painter

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6 Prefixed to Mr. Whitehead's Works

7 Anniversary, 1795,

8 Anniversary, 1796

9 To the Bishop of Worcester, sent with the preceding 130

*10 Anniversary, 1797

131

11 Occasioned by the late Attack on the present Taste of

12 To a Gravel Walk relative to the same subject

13 Occasioned by a Didactic Poem on the Progress of Civil

133

9 On a Tripod to the Memory of W. Whitehead, Esq.

10 Inscription for a Picture of the Editor of Shakspeare's

MSS. 1796

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MISCELLANIES.