American
Mather Byles
Mather Byles (1707–1788) was a Congregational minister in Boston and the best-known American poet of his generation. A nephew of Cotton Mather, he corresponded with Alexander Pope and others in England, and his Poems on Several Occasions was published in Boston in 1744.
Celebrated in Boston for his wit and his punning, he served the Hollis Street Church for decades. He remained loyal to the Crown during the Revolution and was dismissed from his pulpit in 1776.
Poems (33)
- The Almighty Conqueror
- The God of Tempest
- The Complaint and the Consolation
- The Altogether Lovely
- The Comparison, the Choice, and the Enjoyment
- On a very profane Compliment in a noble and devout Poem
- Hymn to Christ for our Regeneration and Resurrection
- Goliah's Defeat
- Ode, for Palatine Tune
- Written in Milton's Paradise Lost
- To the Memory of a young Commander slain in a Battle with the Indians, 1724
- Written in Dr. Watt's Poems; given to a young Lady
- An Elegy address'd to His Excellency Governour Belcher: On the Death of his Brother-in-Law, the Honourable Daniel Oliver, Esq
- To a Friend, on the Death of a Relative
- Hymn at Sea
- To an ingenious young Gentleman, on his dedicating a Poem to the Author
- The Bloom of Life, fading in a happy Death
- A Poem on the Death of King George I. And Accession of King George II
- To His Excellency Governour Burnet, on his Arrival at Boston
- To His Excellency Governour Belcher, on the Death of His Lady
- To Pollio, on his preparing for the Press a Treatise against the Romish Church
- On the Death of the Queen
- To the Reverend Dr. Watts, on his Divine Poems
- To Pictorio, on the Sight of his Pictures
- Epitaph I
- Epitaph II
- Epitaph III
- Epitaph IV
- To a young Lady
- Written in the Blank Leaf of a Poem intitled Aetna
- Epigram written upon a Pile of Building, erected in Paris by Louis xivth. after the Peace with Queen Anne
- The Conflagration
- Eternity