Henry Fielding
1707–1754
Best-known poems
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The Roast Beef of Old England
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food,
It ennobled our hearts, and enrichèd our blood;
Our soldiers were brave, and our courtiers were good. … -
To Euthalia. Written in the year 1728.
BURNING with love, tormented with despair,
Unable to forget or ease his care;
In vain each practis'd art Alexis tries; … -
To Miss H-and At Bath. Written extempore in the pump-room, 1742.
SOON shall these bounteous springs thy wish bestow,
Soon in each feature sprightly health shall glow;
Thy eyes regain their fire, thy limbs their grace, …
All poems (36)
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- A Description of U-n G-To Rosalinda, now from town retir'd,
- “A hunting we will go”The Dusky night rides down the sky,
- A Parody, From The First Aeneid.DIXIT; et avertens roseâ cervice refulsit,
- A Sailor's Song.Come, let's aboard, my jolly blades,
- A Simile, From Silius Italicus.AUT ubi cecropius formidine nubis aquosae
- An Epigram. (That Kate weds a fool)THAT Kate weds a fool what wonder can be,
- Another. (Miss Molly lays down)MISS Molly lays down as a positive rule,
- Another. On A Wicked Fellow, Who Was A Great Blunderer.INTERR'D by blunder in this sacred place,
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- Of Good Nature. To His Grace The Duke of Richmond.WHAT is good-nature? Gen'rous Richmond, tell;
- Of True Greatness. An Epistle to George Dodington, Esq.'TIS strange, while all to greatness homage pay,
- On A Lady, Coquetting With A Very Silly Fellow.CORINNA'S judgment do not less admire,
- On The Same.WHILE men shun Oulus as a fool,
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- The Beggar. A Song.I.
- The Cat And Fiddle. To The Favourite Cat Of A Fiddling Miser.THRICE happy cat, if, in thy A— House,
- The Price. To The Same.CAN there on earth, my Celia, be
- The Queen of Beauty, t'other day(As the Elysian journals say).
- The Question (Fielding)IN Celia's arms while bless'd I lay,
- The Roast Beef of Old EnglandWhen mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food,
- To A Friend on the Choice Of A Wife'TIS hard (experience long so taught the wise)
- To Celia (Fielding)I HATE the town and all its ways;
- To Celia. Occasioned by her apprehending her house would be broke open, and having an old fellow to guard it, who sat up all night, with a gun without any ammunition.CUPID CALLED TO ACCOUNT.
- To Euthalia. Written in the year 1728.BURNING with love, tormented with despair,
- To John Hayes, Esq.THAT Varius huffs, and fights it out to-day,
- To Miss H-and At Bath. Written extempore in the pump-room, 1742.SOON shall these bounteous springs thy wish bestow,
- To The Master Of The Salisbury Assembly.TAKE your candles away, let your music be mute,
- To The Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, (Now Earl Of Orford). Written in the Year 1730SIR,
- To The Same. On Her Wishing To Have A Lilliputian To Play With.Is there a man who would not be,
- To The Same; Having Blamed Mr. Gay For His Severity On Her Sex.LET it not Celia's gentle heart perplex
