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The UNIVERSAL DREAM.
1 'GIVE o'er your Whims, says my considerate Friend;
2 'Retrieve the fleeting Hours you idly spend:
3 'Blind to Advice, incorrigible, vain,
4 'You follow Fancy and her laughing Train;
[Page 178]5 'Your thoughtless Days in swift Delusion fly:'
6 So let them go, says unconverted I,
7 Look round the Globe, my Friend, and then you'll see
8 The drowsy World is slumb'ring just like me.
9 See on soft Beds the Hero sleeps secure,
10 Till War comes thund'ring at his trembling Door;
11 In wiser Dreams the Politician prys
12 Through distant Kingdoms with his half-shut Eyes:
13 The lull'd Projector builds aerial Towers,
14 And rolls smooth Rivers through enchanted Bowers.
15 The Chymist slumbers o'er imagin'd Gold,
16 So Delia's Conquests in her Dreams are told.
17 What monstrous Phantoms in that Trance are born,
18 Through which Amyntor sees his sprouting Horn?
19 When purblind Mortals sound the Depths of Fate,
20 Or some lean Poet aims at an Estate;
21 Or when the good believing Man depends
22 On the slight Promise of his courtly Friends;
23 Shou'd those awake they to their Cost wou'd find,
24 These are but Shadows of a sleeping Mind.
25 Few real Pleasures are on Earth possest,
26 And Mortals only in their Dreams are blest;
27 Then dream no longer, my well-meaning Friend,
28 That Mira's Follies with her Muse shall end:
29 Some younger Vanity succeeds the first,
30 And the last Folly often proves the worst:
31 No: While the rest in fruitless Cares are hurl'd,
32 Let me enjoy my visionary World:
33 To this glad Bosom hug the dear Mistake,
34 If Dreams are Blessings, who wou'd wish to wake?
Source edition
Leapor, Mrs. (Mary), 1722-1746. Poems upon several occasions: By Mrs. Leapor of Brackley in Northamptonshire. London: printed: and sold by J. Roberts, 1748, pp. 177-179. 15,[5],282p. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T127827; Foxon p. 413; OTA K101776.000) (Page images digitized from a copy at University of California Libraries.)
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Other works by Mary Leapor
- ADVICE to MYRTILLO. ()
- The APPARITION. ()
- The BEAUTIES of the SPRING. ()
- CATHARINA's CAVE. ()
- CELADON to MIRA. ()
- The CHARMS of ANTHONY. ()
- COLINETTA. ()
- The CRUCIFIXION and RESURRECTION. An ODE. ()
- The CRUEL PARENT. A DREAM. ()
- DAMON and STREPHON. A Pastoral Complaint. ()
- DAVID'S Complaint, ii Samuel, chap. 1. ()
- The DEATH of ABEL. ()
- DORINDA at her Glass. ()
- The ENQUIRY. ()
- An EPISTLE to a LADY. ()
- An EPITAPH. ()
- An EPITAPH. ()
- ESSAY on FRIENDSHIP. ()
- ESSAY on HAPPINESS. ()
- An ESSAY on HOPE. ()
- The FALL of LUCIA. ()
- The FIELDS of MELANCHOLY and CHEARFULNESS. ()
- FLORIMELIA, the First PASTORAL. ()
- FLORIMELIA, the Second PASTORAL. ()
- The FOX and the HEN. A FABLE. ()
- The FRIEND in Disgrace. A DIALOGUE. ()
- The GENIUS in DISGUISE. ()
- The HEAD-ACH. To AURELIA. ()
- An HYMN to the MORNING. ()
- The INSPIR'D QUILL. Occasion'd by a Present of CROW-PENS. ()
- JOB'S CURSE, and his APPEAL. Taken out of Job, Chap. i, and xxxi. ()
- The LIBYAN HUNTER, a FABLE. Inscrib'd to the Memory of a late admir'd Author. ()
- The LINNET and the GOLDFINCH. ()
- MIRA to OCTAVIA. ()
- MIRA's WILL. ()
- The MISTAKEN LOVER. ()
- The MONTH of AUGUST. ()
- The MORAL VISION. ()
- An ODE on MERCY: In Imitation of Part of the 145th Psalm. ()
- On DISCONTENT. To STELLA. ()
- On Mr. POPE's Universal PRAYER. ()
- On SICKNESS. ()
- On the Death of a justly admir'd AUTHOR. ()
- On WINTER. ()
- The PENITENT. Occasion'd by the Author's being asked if she would take Ten Pounds for her Poems. ()
- The POWER of BEAUTY. ()
- A PRAYER for the YEAR, 1745. ()
- The Proclamation of APOLLO. ()
- The PROPOSAL. ()
- PROSERPINE'S RAGOUT. ()
- The QUESTION. Occasion'd by a serious Admonition. ()
- A REQUEST to the DIVINE BEING. ()
- The RIVAL BROTHERS. ()
- The SACRIFICE. An EPISTLE to CELIA. ()
- The SETTING SUN. To SILVIA. ()
- SILVIA and the BEE. ()
- SONG to CLOE, playing on her Spinet. ()
- SOTO. A CHARACTER. ()
- The SOW and the PEACOCK. A FABLE. ()
- STEPHON to CELIA. A modern LOVE-LETTER. ()
- A SUMMER'S WISH. ()
- The TALE of CUSHI. From II. Samuel, Chap. xviii. ()
- The TEMPLE of LOVE. ()
- The TEN-PENNY NAIL. ()
- The Third Chapter of the Wisdom of SOLOMON. From the First to the Sixth Verse. ()
- To a Gentleman with a Manuscript Play. ()
- To ARTEMISIA. Dr. KING's Invitation to BELLVILL: Imitated. ()
- To GRAMMATICUS. ()
- The WAY of the WORLD. ()