Poems on several occasions, with some other compositions. By Nathaniel Evans, A.M. late missionary (appointed by the Society for Propagating the Gospel) for Gloucester County, in New-Jersey; and Chaplain to the Lord Viscount Kilmorey, of the Kingdom of Ireland.

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Poems on several occasions, with some other compositions. By Nathaniel Evans, A.M. late missionary (appointed by the Society for Propagating the Gospel) for Gloucester County, in New-Jersey; and Chaplain to the Lord Viscount Kilmorey, of the Kingdom of Ireland.

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Evans, Nathaniel, 1742-1767.

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Philadelphia: :: Printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street.,

M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]

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"Poems on several occasions, with some other compositions. By Nathaniel Evans, A.M. late missionary (appointed by the Society for Propagating the Gospel) for Gloucester County, in New-Jersey; and Chaplain to the Lord Viscount Kilmorey, of the Kingdom of Ireland." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N09733.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• biographical note
• PREFACE.
• DAPHNIS AND MENALCAS, A PASTORAL ECLOGUE.
• ODE TO A FRIEND. 1758.
• EPISTOLARY ODE TO A FRIEND.
• PANEGYRIC ODE TO THE MEMORY OF GENERAL WOLFE, SLAIN AT THE SIEGE OF QUEBEC.
• ELEGY TO THE Memory of THEOPHILUS GREW, A. M. Professor of Mathematics in the College of PHILADELPHIA.
• A RIDDLE.
• ODE ON THE PROSPECT OF PEACE. 1761.
• A RURAL ODE, Written by the Author at the Age of Sixteen.
• ODE TO A FRIEND.
• HYMN TO MAY.
• AN ANACREONTIC ODE.
• SONG. EXTEMPORE.
• TO SYLVIA.
• SONG.
• AN ODE, Attempted in the Manner of HORACE, TO MY INGENIOUS FRIEND, MR. THOMAS GODFREY.
• A SONG TO MIRA; ON PARTING.
• VERSES FOR THE NEW-YEAR 1762 .
• AN ODE, On completing my One and Twentieth Year of Age.
• HEROIC STANZAS, On the Successes of his MAJESTY'S Arms, and the Greatness of the ENGLISH NATION; 1762.
• AN EXERCISE; CONTAINING, A DIALOGUE AND ODE ON OCCASION OF THE PEACE.
  • A DIALOGUE, &c. HORATIO, PALEMON, PHILANDER.
  • ODE, WRITTEN BY PAUL JACKSON, A. M.
• PSALM XCVII. Paraphrased.
  • introduction
  • PSALM XCVII. PARAPHRASED.
  • PSALM CXLV. PARAPHRASED.
  • PSALM CXXXVII. VERSIFIED.
• poems
  • Ad GULIELMUM LAUDERUM, P. P.
  • TO WILLIAM LAUDER, P. P.
• pastoral
  • CARMEN PASTORALE.
  • A PASTORAL, from the Latin of the same.
• ELEGY, TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED FRIEND, MR. THOMAS GODFREY, Who died near Wilmington, North-Carolina, August 3d, 1763.
• TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ESQ L. L. D.
• ON THE AEOLIAN HARP.
• AN EPISTLE TO MIRA.
• AN ORATION ON SCIENCE.
• VERSES, ADDRESSED TO THE TRUSTEES of the COLLEGE and ACADEMY OF PHILADELPHIA.
• EPITAPH, IN MEMORY OF MRS. MARGARET ROBINSON, WIFE OF CAPT. JAMES ROBINSON, Who died March 22, 1765, and was buried in St. Catharine's Church, London.
• TO CLARINDA.
• THE MORNING INVITATION, To Two YOUNG LADIES at the GLOUCESTER SPRING.
• FRAGMENTS, AND UNFINISHED POEMS.
  • ON TIME.
  • INTRODUCTION TO A NIGHT-PIECE.
  • A SEA-PIECE.
  • TO MELANCHOLY.
  • BEGINNING OF A POEM, ON THE PASSION and RESURRECTION of CHRIST.
  • AN INVOCATION, For the Return of Spring; March 17th, 1760.
  • ON SOLITUDE.
• ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE.
• AN ODE.
• Some LINES out of MR. POPE'S ELOISE TO ABELARD.
• A PARODY On the foregoing LINES, by a LADY, assuming the Name of LAURA.
• AN EPISTLE TO LAURA, ON HER PARODY.
• LAURA's ANSWER.
• TO LAURA, IN REPLY TO THE ABOVE.
• VERSES ON THREE LADIES, Who filled up Les Bouts Rimez and desired the AUTHOR to decide which was best.
• ANSWER BY LAURA, One of the THREE LADIES above mentioned.
• title page
• title page
• TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION OF GLOUCESTER.
• The LOVE of the World incompa|tible with the LOVE of GOD.