ON AN INFANT. BEWAIL not much, my parents! me, the prey An infant, in my fifth scarce finish'd year, BY HERACLIDES. IN Cnidus born, the consort I became ON THE REED. I was of late a barren plant, Nor fig, nor grape, nor apple bore, With narrow mouth and slender lip, III. 1 Ꮓ At once, although by nature dumb, TO HEALTH. ELDEST born of powers divine! Owe, themselves, their youth to thee, Much, but never happiness. ON INVALIDS. FAR happier are the dead, methinks, than they Who look for death, and fear it every day. ON THE ASTROLOGERS. THE astrologers did all alike presage ON AN OLD WOMAN. MYCILLA dyes her locks, 'tis said; She buys them black; they therefore need ON FLATTERERS, No mischief worthier of our fear In nature can be found But hollow and unsound. For lull'd into a dangerous dream We close infold a foe, Who strikes, when most secure we seem, ON A TRUE FRIEND. HAST thou a friend? Thou hast indeed Treasure to serve your every need, ON THE SWALLOW. ATTIC maid! with honey fed, Bear'st thou to thy callow brood Destined their delicious food? Ye have kindred voices clear, Ah, for pity drop the prize; Let it not with truth be said, ON LATE ACQUIRED WEALTH. POOR in my youth, and in life's later scenes Who nought enjoy'd while young, denied the means; And nought when old enjoy'd, denied the power. ON A BATH, BY PLATO. DID Cytherea to the skies From this pellucid lymph arise? Or was it Cytherea's touch, When bathing here, that made it such? ON A FOWLER, BY ISIODORUS. WITH seeds and birdlime, from the desert air, ON NIOBE. CHARON! receive a family on board By me too proudly spoken, slew us all. ON A GOOD MAN. TRAVELLER, regret not me; for thou shalt find Just cause of sorrow none in my decease, Who, dying, children's children left behind, And with one wife lived many a year in peace: Three virtuous youths espoused my daughters three, And oft their infants in my bosom lay, Nor saw I one, of all derived from me, Touch'd with disease, or torn by death away. Their duteous hands my funeral rites bestow'd, And me, by blameless manners fitted well To seek it, sent to the serene abode Where shades of pious men for ever dwell. |