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John Hopkins

fl. 1700

John Hopkins (fl. 1700) was an English poet of the turn of the eighteenth century, remembered for a single large work, Amasia, or, The Works of the Muses, published in London in 1700 in three volumes. Little is recorded of his life, and the catalogue gives only a floruit.

Amasia gathers love poems and verse epistles addressed to a lady under that name, together with occasional pieces, Ovidian tales in the manner of the day, and poems to friends. He should not be confused with John Hopkins, the sixteenth-century psalmist, or with Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Poems (160)

  1. To the God of Love. A Pindarick
  2. Elyzium, or, the Kingdom of Love. A Poem Address'd to Amasia
  3. Passionate Fondness
  4. Despair
  5. Admiration
  6. Address
  7. Parting
  8. Absence
  9. Jealousy
  10. Platonick Love
  11. Elyzium
  12. To Amasia, on her drawing her own Picture
  13. To Amasia, holding a drawn Sword in her Hand
  14. To Amasia, tickling a Gentleman
  15. To Amasia, playing with a Clouded Fan
  16. To Amasia asking me if I slept well, after so tempestuous a Night as the last was, when we parted, and desiring me to describe it
  17. To Amasia speaking an Extempore Verse
  18. To Amasia, still promising to Sing, but never performing
  19. Meeting Amasia at a Young Lady's Funeral
  20. To Amasia, on her Recovery from a fall
  21. To Amasia, holding a Burning-Glass in her Hand
  22. To Amasia, looking, at me, thro' a Multiplying-Glass
  23. To Amasia, Singing, and sticking Pins in a Red Silk Pincushion
  24. To Amasia, on her correcting a line of Mr. Waller's, as she read it
  25. To Amasia, troubled with a redness in her Eyes, on her saying, she would Charm me with them
  26. To Amasia, on the falling of her Terras-Walks
  27. The Dream, beginning with the Description of Night. Written to Amasia
  28. To Amasia, who, while I awfully admir'd her at her Window, withdrew, and sent a Black in her place
  29. To Amasia, Dancing before a Looking-Glass
  30. To Amasia, who having prick'd me with a Pin, for a Subject to write on, accidentally scratch'd her self with it, when in my hand afterwards
  31. Instructions to a Painter to draw Amasia, with some reflections on the Artist's skill, resolving to describe her, my self, much better with my Pen
  32. The Address of Love An Epistolary Poem. Written to Amasia
  33. Deidamia to Achilles. Epist. I
  34. A Lady to her Lover. Epist. II
  35. Scylla to Minos. Epist. III
  36. Hero, Priestess of Venus
  37. To Amasia, who made me a present of a Studying-Cap, variously Beautified with Trees and Flow'rs of Needle-Work
  38. To Amasia, on her filling a Glass with Water, whereon she had Painted Stags, and Birds, and Trees
  39. To Amasia, invested with a Muslin-Nightraile, variously Beautified with Birds, and Beasts of Needle-Work
  40. To Amasia, wearing a Muslin-Apron, wrought with Trees and Beasts of Needle-Work
  41. To Amasia, on her Beautifying the Lining of her Gown, with Trees, and Groves in Needle-Work
  42. To Amasia, sticking Gardens cut in Paper, on a large Glass
  43. To Three Ladies who presented me their Verses Written in praise of one another, and in return for my Judgment, told my Fortune
  44. On a Fly, that flew into a Lady's Eye, and there lay buried in a Tear
  45. To a Lady, desiring a Visit
  46. Seeing a fair Young Lady, just a dying
  47. A Dialogue between a living Nymph, and a Youth who was drown'd. Written thus at the Request of a Lady
  48. To Amasia, who Commanded me to avoid her presence, whenever she appear'd
  49. The Description of the Palace of the Sun, and Constagration of the World, partly imitated from Ovid
  50. To the Lord Sy — ney, Created Lieutenant of Ireland, about the time his Majesty went to Flanders
  51. To a Lady Lamenting her Lover, who was Drown'd
  52. On a Bee inclos'd in Amber
  53. On a China Cup fill'd with Water, round the sides of which were painted Trees, and at the bottom, a Naked Woman Weeping
  54. The Description of a Tempest, and a Fight at Sea
  55. To a Lady, who presented me an Orange
  56. To a Lady, presenting her a Box of Patches
  57. To Amasia, off'ring me a branch of Gilded Laurel
  58. To a very Charming Lady, with an unpleasing Name
  59. To a Lady, whose Maid, having given her a Manuscript, I sent her, and being ask'd from whom, she receiv'd it, reply'd — from the Conjurer himself, she thought
  60. To a Lady, saying she knew I Lov'd her
  61. To a Lady, who, (while endeavouring to tye up some Linen, with a Ribbond, a little of the shortest.) being ask'd how she would manage, if she Lov'd a Gentleman without a Fortune, reply'd, I'll show you — (and so, drawing harder, made the ends meet.)
  62. To a Lady, Singing frequently these Words, — Youth and Beauty
  63. To a Lady, who, with a Charming Air of Negligence, frequently, when spoken to reply'd — Yes, Sir,
  64. To Amasia, having dreamt of me
  65. To Amasia, on the Accidental falling of her loose Garments, which discover'd to my view her Breasts
  66. To the Admir'd Mrs. Cr — fts
  67. To a Lady having lost three Kisses on a Wager with me, and refusing to pay them
  68. Reflections on the Picture of Cupid, Imitated from Propertius
  69. To Amasia ("By their own light my")
  70. Written to Amasia
  71. To Amasia ("In vain in slighted Numbers")
  72. To Amasia ("As Men on Racks feel")
  73. To Amasia ("As Men in desarts lost")
  74. To Amasia ("What can I think; can")
  75. To Amasia ("Think, think, Amasia, on the")
  76. To Amasia ("Why did the Day its")
  77. To Amasia ("Enough — 'tis done, the")
  78. To Amasia ("Whence, whence your Charms; whence")
  79. To Amasia ("At last believe — as")
  80. To Amasia ("Could you believe my Flame")
  81. To Amasia ("Tho' Sense prevailing Checks a")
  82. To Amasia ("Why am I charg'd to")
  83. To Amasia ("O Cruel fair! at length")
  84. To Amasia ("Could the true Lover all")
  85. To Amasia ("Whilst some vainFops repuls'd, and")
  86. To Amasia ("Hark — how I sigh")
  87. To Amasia ("See, how in Sorrows Drown'd")
  88. To Amasia ("Too much, too much you")
  89. To Amasia ("How far will Love his")
  90. Vertumnus and Pomona
  91. Venus and Adonis
  92. Perseus and Andromeda
  93. Picus and Canens
  94. Jupiter and Europa
  95. Boreas and Orythia
  96. Iphis and Janthe
  97. Tereus and Philomela
  98. Alphaeus and Arethusa
  99. Jupiter and Calisto
  100. Pigmalion and his Iv'ry Statue
  101. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
  102. Cephalus and Procris
  103. Phaebus and Leucothoe
  104. Hippomenes and Atalanta
  105. Eccho
  106. Narcissus
  107. Pan and Syrinx
  108. Jupiter and Semele
  109. Glaucus and Scylla
  110. Diana and Actaeon
  111. Coronis and Neptune
  112. Orpheus and Eurydice
  113. On Flowers in Amasia's Bosom. In Imitation of Anacreon
  114. To a Lady asking me a Thousand impertinent Questions, which she would have Answer'd
  115. To the Lady above-mention'd, saying I gave her a very senseless, impudent Answer
  116. To the Lady aforesaid, striking me on the Face with her Fan, for my former Answers
  117. To a Lady, who ask'd me why I writ on such trifling Occasions
  118. To a Lady, saying I ought to Marry her, because she Lov'd me
  119. To the same Loving Lady, telling me, abuse was an ill requital for sost Passion, but she thank'd her Stars, she was but in Jest
  120. To a Lady, making her a present of Straw-Work
  121. To the Bookseller desiring my Sculpture before my Book
  122. To a certain Gentleman, you must know, very Censorious on me, for assenting to my Bookseller's desire
  123. To a Lady, telling me I should Court applause, if I expected to gain it
  124. To a Lady, saying with a smile, she fear'd I would not perform my Promise
  125. To a Lady, telling me I writ too fast
  126. To the same Lady saying — Sure, I never thought, and Commanding me to write on a Feather
  127. To Amasia putting a Paper of my Verses in her Bosom
  128. To a Lady with a very Charming Dimple in her Chin, occasion'd by a scar, which, she said, an unaccountable distemper had left there
  129. To a Lady Dancing at a Ball
  130. To a Lady saying she would Hate me, if I should write Satyr
  131. To a Gentleman, whose Life was indanger'd by his Endeavouring to aderss a Lady in a Sphere above him
  132. NEW-YEAR's-DAY, 1699
  133. Seeing a Lady at a Play call'd A Trip to the Jubilee
  134. To a Lady, under the Name of Philomela
  135. Love in Idea
  136. To a Lady, who seeing me in a Languishing Sickness, call'd me — Poor Shadow of Love
  137. To a Lady making me a second present of a Lock of her Hair, after I had in an humour return'd the first
  138. To a Lady Singing
  139. The Health (After absence — To a Friend)
  140. To a Lady, holding her Picture in my Hand, and looking on her Face
  141. The Arms (Suavitate, aut Vi)
  142. The Complaint
  143. To Mr — ("Enough — I know thy")
  144. To Mr — ("All Court the Rising Sun")
  145. The Petition. To her Royal, and Illustrious Highness, the Princess
  146. To a Lady, my Friend's ingrateful Mistress
  147. To Dr Gibbons
  148. To a Lady, asking me why I did not apply to Dr. Gibbons to be Cur'd of my Love too
  149. The Charmer
  150. The Vision of the Muse
  151. To Mr — ("In vain, My Friend, your")
  152. To Mr — ("Much am I pleas'd, to")
  153. To Mr — ("As some blest Youth, who")
  154. To Mr — ("Tir'd of Mankind, I long")
  155. To Mr — ("As two dear Friends, who")
  156. To Mr — ("To you, dear Youth, did")
  157. To Mr — ("As parted Lovers, who a")
  158. To Mr — ("With such delight I did")
  159. To Mr — ("To you, dear Youth, now")
  160. Martin, the Friend

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