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A29657 Poems upon several occasions by Daniel Baker ... Baker, Daniel, 1653 or 4-1723. 1697 (1697) Wing B489A; ESTC R209048 36,439 169

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Reducing Sin and Sin 's unlucky Fruits again The Love of Gold shall yet enslave Man-kind And to vexatious Cares and Labours bind Some to the toilsom Plough shall yoaked be And others travel through the Pathless Sea Pride and Ambition still shall reign And Princes to the Wars their People train And foolish Men their Wits shall stain T' invent more dreadful Engines still The Life of Innocents to spill VI. But when thy glorious Body shall receive It 's perfect growth it 's full increase All Pain and Labour then shall cease The Mariner the stormy Sea shall leave Of Traffick there shall be no further need For ev'ry Land shall all things useful breed With Plough-shares torn the Earth no more shall be The lab'ring Ox shall then go free Nor shall the tender Vine by cutting bleed The Dyers feigned Art shall useless lie Instructed Nature shall the Place of Art supply Thy Flocks shall precious Colours freely bear Some Azure Wool and some shall Scarlet wear Soft to the Touch and to the Eye more fair Than Persian Silks or Tyrian Hangings are And all thy Lambs shall yield a golden Fleece Richer than that at Colchos sought by all the Youth of Greece So Heav'n decrees so Prophecies relate This blessed Change we all expect from thy resistless Fate VII Come mighty Prince the Time draws near Thou God's beloved Son Heav'ns shining Crown Thou Joy of Angels hasten down The sinful Earth to visit do not sear Thy Presence will create its own Heav'n ev'ry where See how the Heav'ns the Earth and spacious Sea Beneath the Weight of Sin and Vanity Do groan and pant and long for thee Who art ordain'd their great Deliverer to be See how they smile with secret Joy Stretch forth their Necks and raise their Heads on high O might I live to see that Joyful Day When free'd from Sin and Vanity Both Heav'n and Earth renew'd shall be And re-obtain their sweet and ancient Liberty When the last Fire shall purge their Dross away But leave the Substance still behind Like precious Gold more rich and more refin'd No more obnoxious now to Bondage or Decay When Sin and Malice driven down to Hell Their native Place their ancient Home From whence they never more shall come Just Men and meek in endless Bliss on the new Earth shall dwell O might I live thy noble Acts to tell Doubtless that glorious Subject will inspire Thy Servant's Breast with such exalted Fire That the blest Spirits and th' immortal Quire Shall listen to my Verses and admire To hear Angelick Songs breath'd from an human Lyre HICATHRIFT DUELLUM SIVE PUGNA Singularis INTER Juvenem quendam fortissimum Cui NOMEN HICATHRIFT ET GIGANTEM Ferocissimum Qui publicos Agros vulgò Marshland Smee occupaverat atque Incolas magnâ cum bonorum jacturâ sedes suas mutare coegerat Vicit amor Patriae HICATHRIFT ILLE ego qui molli nuper labefactus amore Carmina deslevi teneris placitura puellis Securus Famae nil pulchrae Laudis avarus Consilia in melius referens nunc laetor amarum Excussisse jugum Cervice novoque Furore Afflatus non jam venerem sed servida martis Arma virumque cano Patriam qui primus ab Hoste Eripuit capitisque sui discrimine Postem Depulit à Sociis magnum memorabile factum Nostra suas dignè Laudes si dicere possit Musa nec ingenium superent certamina tanta Non procul urbe jacet Lennâ ditissima frugum Et pecorum Regio veteres haud nomine vano Quippe Mari juxta Madidam dixere Palustrem Oceani ut prohibent ereptam faucibus olim Romani valido cinxerunt aggere Terram Quem sumptu nimio magnoque labore Nepotes Sufficiunt Pelagique minas tali arte repellant Ni facerent ruptis subitò sua jura reposcens Irrueret Portis pecudesque domosque per undas Spargeret atque iterum qua nunc armenta vagantur Pasceret immanes Proteus sub Gurgite Phocas Hujus ad occiduam fundit se plurima partem Planicies spacio lateque extenditur amplo Vere novo quando aura tepet Zephyrique benigni Aspirant Flores varios Graminis herbam Sponte sua felix nulloque subacta colono Fundit humus pariter Nares ac Lumina pascens Hic jucunda apibus Cerinthe hic aurea floret Primula quaeque nives superant candore recentes Lilia cum violis purpureo Narcisso Hos inter vario Pecudes certamine ludunt Innocuae pascuntur oves pulchraeque juvencae In fera sollicitant animosos Praelia Tauros● Lambit eum glaucâ praecinctus arundine ripas Ousa pater pecori qui fundit pocula laeto Denique tota nitet Coelo gratissima omnes Exuperat longè terras jam frigida Tempe Amplius haud jactent Authores Carmine jamque Desinat Elysios mirari Graecia campos Ast olim deserta situ multoque jacebat Obruta squallore sylvestribus horrida dumis Nec pecori Pastum nec iter praebebat eunti Quiqpe ferunt illic si ritè audita recordot Immanem sibi speluncas posuisse Gigantem Exortum ut memorant saevorum sanguine Fratrum Qui conjurati Coelum rescindere montes Montibus augebant donec dubitare Deûm Rex Inciperet Pulsi nam conscius ille Parentis Nè Coelum eriperent male partáque Regna timebat Non glebam rastris domuit nec pascere tauros Lanigerosve greges agitare hirtasve capellas Cura fuit verum ex alieno vivere fidens Viribus ipse suis operasque solebat agrestum Diripere immittis opimas vertere praedas Ah! Quoties laetas segetes sua vota colonus Calcari vidit vel in horrea abire Tyranni Ah! Quoties abigi taurorum corpora pastor Balantumque greges abjectâ flevit avenâ Diffugiunt populi confestim dulcia linquunt Arva nec assuetis sese committere ripis Audent sed longis repetunt ambagibus Urbes Qua via tuta pater Tantus timor occupat omnes Non tulit hoc Monstrum nec de regione viarum Deflecti notâ voluit Mavortius Heros Angligenûm Decus ipsum Hicathrift cognomine dicunt Hic Patriae damnis Laudumque cupidine tactus Accipit ingentes animos in utrumque paratus Seu terris modo Dii faveant avertere pestem Infandam seu praesenti succumbere morti At non armatus clypeo non ille bipennem Caelatam tulit argento galeamve nitentem Aptavit capiti neque sic ad praelia venit Sed vultum Aurigae induitur vocemque coloremque Et crassum filo sagulum manibusque flagellum Increpitans egit deserta per avia Plaustrum Sic prodibat equos sonituque manuque lacessens Castigatque moras vocem cum protinus hausit AEtnaeus Frater lato qui forte sub antro Carpebat somnos epulis expletus inemptis Quin statim exiluit telumque immane coruscans Ingens arboreum quod vix cervice subirent Sex Juvenes lecti
caeco Cui jocus est Mentem furari Animosque viriles Frangere Faemineâque caput circumdare vittâ Quorsum ego Praeceptis colui tibi Pectus honestis Semina Doctrinae injicens morumque bonorum Spem messis tenues ah ludificantur avenae Herba Amor infelix totum corrumpit agellum Nec medicinalis sinit illic crescere Plantas Ah Piger in mea me juratus verba relinquis Musarumque levis sterili nugaris arenâ Quid tibi profuerit studia haec tam vana sequuto Ecce tui Socii dudum laeta arva tenentes Acquirunt finem studiorum Pulpita scandunt Inde docent Populos praemia magna reportant Tu vero infelix monitorum oblito meorum Verba facis moveant quae ferrea corda Puellae Atque in Avaritiam Fastum muliebria clamas Crimina nequicquam Illa nihil tua Dogmata curat Et tuus Sermo Sociorum spargitur Austro Te Patria exoptat te dilectissima Mater Te vicini omnes orant charique propinqui Ut votis tandem velles precibusque favere Proque piâ Curâ meritas persolvere grates At tu nonne pudet Cunctos postponis Amicae Inque puellares penitus dissolveris ignes Surge Puer nimiumque diu posita Arma resume Excute turpe Jugum blandosque repelle Furores Volve Libros pone ante oculos Exempla Virorum Quos Labor assiduus nox vigilantibus hausta Luminibus tandem ad meritos evexit honores Audentes sua dextra juvat Contemnere Amorem Aude Cedit enim siquis contempserit ipsum Sic Ratio dixit dicere plura parabat Cùm subitò patuere fores se intulit illa Illa potens formâ veraeque simillima Divae Olli sidereos oculis afflârat Honores Ipsa Venus multoque caput redimiverat Auro Auro si fas est Dominae componere Crines Candidaque ut puro spectantur Lilia vitro Pulchra relucebat sic per Bombycina Cervix Inque sinu dulci niveae micuêre Mamillae Hujus ad aspectum Ratio tremefacta potentem Concidit ut quondam Piscis res mira Philistheus Ante Dei pronus venerandam concidit Arcam Argumenta fugamque imbellis turba capessunt Assurgo Dominamque caput demissus adoro Et supplex veniam tantae concedere culpae Obsecro perque suos oculos mea numina juro Virgo Luce magis misero dilecta Bakero Corporis ipse tui Complexu avulsus almo Arcear aspectu squalenti Carcere clausus Blanda meas iterum Ratio si mulceat aures Inducarve alium Te praeter ferre monentem Rebus in humanis Ratio tua jura repandas AEternumque impune illâ domineris in Aula Ultra ne tendas tibi ne perstringat Amoris Lumina Sol nimia Lucemque in Luce relinquas ALEXIS I. MY loyal Muse would feign aspire to sing The Praises of our gracious King But ah 't would ill become his God-like Deeds His Wisdom Patience and the rest Of Virtues that possess his Princely Breast For which wel-furnish'd Fame more Trumpets needs To be debas'd and lessen'd by unskilful Reeds II. Wonders of Mercy bounteous Heav'n hath shown On him and he himself is One The marks of Pow'r divine t' all Kings belong But God's beloved Attribute Mercy with few but Charles does suit To things so high 't would be too great a wrong To think them Burdens fit for ev'ry Rural Song III. Shepherds are humble People and for them Things humble are the fittest Theam Their Flocks and Herds cool Streams and flowry Plains And secret Woods the chast abodes Of homely Nymphs and Country Gods These are the meet and inoffensive strains That fill the ready Mouths of all Poetick Swains IV. Or if they higher rise 't is to relate Some Lover's good or evil Fate To praise bright Phyllis or if she prove coy T' accuse of Avarice and Pride Both her and all the Sex beside To mould sad Numbers some their Gift employ Others whom kinder Love enlargeth Hymns of Joy V. Among the rest Damon who long did prove The Force of Poetry and Love For whoso chooseth one will soon have both His Friend Alexis happy Fate Did kindly thus congratulate Than him the Plains ne'er bred a gentler Youth Verse sweet as Honey flow'd from his inspired Mouth VI. Upon the Marsh the friendly Shepherds stood Viewing the calm and gentle Flood The whilst beside them sed their wel-known Flock When softly towards an Haven nigh A richly laden Ship sail'd by This hint the fruitful Poet swiftly took And thus alluding to the wealthy Bark he spoke VII What happy Star shone on thy winged Fleet What prosp'rous Gale swell'd out thy Sheet I scarce believ'd thee gone to Sea When thou with lucky haste thy Voyage done A fair and wealthy Prize hast won O happy Lover happy thee Who stubborn Beauty's Victor now may'st justly stiled be VIII Not mighty Caesar with his num'rous Host A speedier Conquest e'er could boast Than thou hast got by thine own Power With Joy and Triumph valiant Swain go on Possess the Island thou hast won Stand not thus idly on the Shore But enter and devour within her goodly Store IX Where Gold upon the Mountain Tops doth grow What may we there expect below Yet tho' with Gold it so abound 'T is from the us'al Fruits of Riches free No Av'rice nor Hypocrisie No Pride nor Luxury there is found The golden Land with a true golden Age is crown'd X. There Truth and Piety take up all the Room And Innocence makes that her home No Place for Falshood there You may discern the Motions of her Heart So pure her Breast so free from Art Her Heart shines through her Breasts as clear As through her open Scarf her Breasts themselves appear XI On the calm Shoar methinks I see thee stand The Borders of thy promis'd Land Casting a scornful Look behind Upon the Sea and smiling when thou se'st It's Rage by barb'rous Storms encreast The Billows and the boist'rous Wind Which others dread so much are Pleasures to thy Mind XII Ah wretched and too miserable me Whose Vessel still is tost at Sea Amidst the Rocks of Fem'nine Pride To Thunder and loud Storms expos'd I lie And Lightnings of her angry Eye No gentle Gale blows on my side And not one Star in Heav'n appears to be my Guide XIII In vain in vain the fruitless Seas I plow In vain my shatter'd Bark I row The adverse Winds blow 't back again The Shoars I seek still backward move apace In vain I run a desp'rate Race Then let me sink and perish in the Main The rest I cannot find on Land Lo let me here obtain NISA In Imitation of the Shepherd Damon's Complaint in the Eighth Eclogue of Virgil. Frigida vix Coelo noctis decesserat Umbra c. I. SCarce was the Nights cold Shadow from the Skies Withdrawn when the fresh Dew that lies Upon the tender Grass doth entertain The Flocks with a fat tastful Feast Damon whose Eyes