Works by Philip Ayres
Verse
- Emblems of Love
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Lyric Poems
- The Poem. to Love
- The Request. to Love
- The Complaint
- From Girolamo Preti, out of Italian, on a Racehorse
- Invites Poets and Historian to write in Cynthia's Praise
- Cynthia on Horseback
- On the Death of Cynthia's Horse
- On a Fountain and its Architect
- Describes the place where Cynthia is sporting herself
- His Retirement
- A Character of his Friend, W. B. Esq.
- A Sonnet. of Love
- On the Picture of Lucretia stabbing herself
- Complains, being hindered the sight of his Nymph
- The Pleased Captive
- The Incurable
- On a Fair Beggar
- A Sonnet, out of Italian, from Claudio Achillini (trans.)
- A Sonnet. the Rose and Lily
- A Defiance, returning to the Place of his past Amours
- Distance
- A Sonnet. On Signor Pietro Reggio his setting to Music several of Mr. Cowley's Poems
- From a Drinking Ode of Alcaeus
- An Epitaph. On a Dutch Captain
- On Cynthia, singing a Recitative Piece of Music
- A Sonnet. On the Picture of a Cavalier Guarini, Author of Il Pastor Fido
- On Old Rome
- A Song. Revenge against Cynthia
- A Sonnet. Love's Contrariety
- 78 Invites his Nymph to his Cottage
- Tis hard to follow Virtue
- Endymion and Diana (trans.)
- From an Ode of Horace
- A Complaint
- Love's Garden. Translated from Girolamo Preti (trans.)
- Seeing his own Picture, discourses of his Studies, and Fortune
- A Sonnet, of Petrarc, on the Death of Laura
- Another, of Petrarc, on Laura's Death
- Complaints of the Court
- Being retired, complains against the court
- To Cynthia
- The Withered Rose
- A Sonnet. On the Death of Sylvia
- To the Winds
- The Silent Talkers
- Tis dangerous jesting with Love
- On Wine
- A Dream
- The Restless Lover
- The Resolution. a Sonnet of Petrarc. Out of Italian (trans.)
- Invokes Death
- A Hint from the Beginning of the Third Satire of Juvenal
- A Contemplation on Man's Life. Out of Spanish. (trans.)
- The Nightingale that was drowned
- On a Child sleeping in Cynthia's Lap
- Cure for Afflictions
- Cynthia Sporting
- The Fly (trans.)
- On Gold
- To his Grace, George Duke of Northumberland
- Love's New Philosophy
- The Vanity of Unwarrantable Notions
- To the Nightingale
- Apollo and Daphne
- A Sestina, in Imitation of Sig. Fra. Petrarca
- A Sonnet of Sig. Francesco Petrarca, giving an Account of the Time when he fell in Love with Madonna Laura
- A Sonnet, of Petrarc, showing how long he had loved Madonna Laura
- A Sonnet, of Petrarc, going to visit M. Laura, remembers she is lately dead
- A Sonnet. Petrarc laments for the Death of M. Laura
- A Sonnet. Petrarc on Laura's Death
- Constancy
- To his Viol
- Hope. Out of Italian, from Fra. Abbati (trans.)
- Finding Cynthia in Pain, and crying
- Cynthia sleeping in a Garden
- Lesbia's Complaint against Thyrsis his Inconstancy
- On Lydia Distracted
- The Four Seasons
- A Sonnet. Translated out of Italian (trans.)
- The Scholar of his own Pupil
- An Epitaph, on a Foolish Boaster
- The Danger of the Sea (trans.)
- An Expostulation with Love
- On the Art of Writing
- The Morn
- To his Ingenious Friend, Mr. N. Tate (trans.)
- Less Security at Sea than on Shore
- A Sonnet. Platonic Love
- Praises the Fountain Casis (trans.)
- To Cynthia gone into the Country (trans.)
- Sonnet Español de Don Felipe Ayres
- A Sonnet. On Cynthia sick
- The Turtle Doves (trans.)
- An Essay towards a Character of His Sacred Majesty King James the Second
- Sleeping Eyes
- To the Swallow (trans.)
- Love so as to be beloved again (trans.)
- All things should contribute to the Lover's Assistance (trans.)
- Cupid turned Ploughman (trans.)
- Love's Subtlety (trans.)
- Love makes the best Poets (trans.)
- The Death of Adonis (trans.)
- Love a Spirit
- Commends on the Spring (trans.)
- The Young Fowler that mistook his Game (trans.)
- To sweet Meat, sour Sauce (trans.)
- Cupid's Nest (trans.)
- To Himself (trans.)
- To his Mistress (trans.)
- To Love (trans.)
- On a Death's-Head, covered with Cobwebs, kept in a Library, and said to be the Skull of a King (trans.)
- From an Imperfect Ode of Hybrias the Cretan (trans.)
- Complains of the Shortness of Life (trans.)
- Being sick of a Fever, complains of the Fountain Casis
- His Heart, into a Bird
- In Praise of a Country Life
- Mortal Jealousy
- The Innocent Magician; or, a Charm against Love
- The Happy Nightingale
- On Fame
- Leander Drowned
- To Sleep, when sick of a Fever
- An Epigram on Woman
- Of Learning (trans.)
- Cynthia returned from the Country
- A Paean, of Song of Triumh, translated into a Pindaric; supposed to be of Alcaeus, of Sappho (trans.)
- Beauty makes us Happy
- To John Dryden, Esq.: Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal, his Honoured Friend
- To a Singing Bird
- The Happy Lover
- On Peace
- An Ode of Anacreon
- The Musical Conqueress
- A Nymph to a young Shepherd, insensible of Love
- Compares the Troubles which he has undergone for Cynthia's Love, to the Labours of Hercules
- The Trophy
- In Sphaeram Archimedis (trans.)
- The Frailty of Man's Life (trans.)
- Of the Miseries attending Mankind (trans.)
- Of the Blessings attending Mankind (trans.)
- To make a Married Life Happy (trans.)
- On Man's Life (trans.)
- The Contempt of Old Age (trans.)
- In Praise of Old Age (trans.)
- From Crates the Philosopher, on the same (trans.)
- The Timely Memento
- On Good Friday, the Day of our Saviour's Passion
- Of Imprudence (trans.)
- His Remedies against the Miseries of Man's Life (trans.)
