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Title: To H--- H--- in the Assembly
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: On the themes of love and constancy, with a number of specific cultural references (mostly to the names of contemporaries). H.H. is identified in a manuscript note in a copy of Hamilton's 'Poems on Several Occasions', 1760, in the Brotherton
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Title: To a Gentleman Going to Travel [Latin epigraph]
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Initially concerned with the different habits of different types of traveller, and the various motivations for travel; becomes increasingly satirical, political, and culturally specific as the poem progresses. Includes lines not printed in the 1760
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Title: Ode to Fancy
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Imprecatory ode to a personified Fancy, with Hymen in train; the speaker asks for poetic inspiration, whilst aware of its transience
Title: Ode to Love
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Ode personifying love, and celebrating in particular the allure of feminine beauty
Title: Ode to Contemplation [Latin epigraph from Virgil]
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Ode invoking a personified Contemplation, calling for her inspiration, and asking her to banish Superstition, Clamour, and especially Love; however, Love insists upon interrupting the poet's contemplative reverie
Title: To Lady Mary Montgomery
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: In praise of Lady Mary Montgomery, discussing her various (successful and unsuccessful) suitors; subsequently about those women who pursue her virtuous example
Title: On Seeing the Lady Mary Montgomery sitt to her picture. In Imitation of Spencer's Stile
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: On observing Lady Mary Montgomery having her portrait painted, emphasising her physical beauty; in imitation of the style of Edmund Spenser
Title: Horace Ode 5 Book 1st
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript:
Contents: Translation of Horace's Odes, I.5, concerned with the seduction of the beautiful Pyrrha by a young man, but also reflecting on his naive idealisation of her; concludes with the poet's own amorous disavowal. Cf. BCMSV 6553.
Title: Horace Book 1st Ode 17 To Mrs H--d--n
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: [Latin]; Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Translation of Horace's Odes, I.17, celebrating the pleasures of pastoral life, and describing how they are protected from harm
Title: The Flower of Yarrow. To Lady Mary Montgomery
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Poem in celebration of feminine and natural beauty; it argues that the yarrow flower is aesthetically useless unless attached to Lady Mary Montgomery's breast
Title: The Miss and the Butterfly. A Fable
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Narrative poem in which an innocent young girl espies, and then pursues and catches, a beautiful butterfly; the butterfly addresses the girl, pleading with her to release him, and then advises her on the dangers of pursuing colourful ephemera later
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Title: The Doves. A Poem
Author: Hamilton, William
Attribution: Hamilton, William
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 115
Contents: Poem celebrating the innocence of doves, and then calling on this as imaginative inspiration for some lines on the poet's lover