Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Ladies Defence: Or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd -- To All Ingenious Ladies -- The Preface to the Reader -- The Ladies Defence: Or, a Dialogue Between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson -- Poems on Several Occasions -- To The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty -- Preface -- On the Death of his Highness the Duke of Glocester -- On the Vanities of this Life -- To Almystrea -- To Clorissa -- To Mr. Dryden, on his excellent Translation of Virgil -- Song -- To Eugenia -- Song: To Lerinda -- Song -- The Wish -- The Elevation -- Friendship -- The Happy Man -- A Dialogue between Alexis and Astrea -- To the Ladies -- To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty -- The Resolution -- A Pindarick Ode -- Icarus -- Song -- A Dialogue between Virgil and Mævius -- To the Learn'd and Ingenious Dr. Musgrave of Exeter -- The Observation -- Solitude -- On the Death of my Honoured Mother Mrs. Lee -- On the Death of my dear Daughter Eliza Maria Chudleigh -- The Offering -- The Resolve -- Song -- The Inquiry -- The Choice -- The Fifteenth Psalm Paraphras'd -- One of Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead Paraphras'd -- To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty -- The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd -- The Preface -- The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd -- Essays upon Several Subjects in Prose and Verse -- To Her Royal Highness The Princess Sophia -- To The Reader -- Of Knowledge -- Of Pride -- Of Humility -- Of Life -- Of Death -- Of Fear -- Of Grief -- Of Riches -- Of Self-Love -- Of Justice -- Of Anger -- Of Calumny -- Of Friendship -- Of Love -- Of Avarice -- Of Solitude -- Index of First Lines of Poems -- A -- C -- D -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.