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Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

by Edmund Waller

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Denham’s Poems

Life of Sir John Denham

Poems Upon Several Occasions

Cooper’s Hill

The Destruction of Troy, an Essay on the 2d Book of Virgil’s Eneis

On the Earl of Stafford’s Trial and Death

On my Lord Croft’s and my Journey into Poland

On Mr. Thomas Killigrew’s Return from Venice, and Mr. William Murrey’s from Scotland

To Sir John Mennis

Natura Naturata

Sarpedon’s Speech to Glaucus, in the Twelfth Book of Homer

Friendship and Single Life, against Love and Marriage

On Mr. Abraham Cowley, his Death, and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets

A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee

To the Five Members of the Honourable House of Commons, the humble Petition of the Poets

A Western Wonder

A Second Western Wonder

A Song

On Mr. John Fletcher’s Works

To Sir Richard Fanshaw, upon his Translation of ‘Pastor Fido’

To the Hon. Edward Howard, on ‘The British Princes’

An Occasional Imitation of a Modern Author upon the Game of Chess

The Passion of Dido for Aeneas

Of Prudence

Of Justice

The Progress of Learning

Elegy on the Death of Helfry Lord Hastings, 1650

Of Old Age

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