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Samuel Pordage

1633–1691?

Samuel Pordage (1633–1691?) was an English poet and dramatist, the son of the Behmenist mystic John Pordage. His dates are uncertain; the year of his death is given only as a probable one.

His Poems upon Several Occasions appeared in 1660, signed “S. P. Gent.”, and includes panegyrics on Monck and on Charles II. He is also remembered as the author of Azaria and Hushai (1682), a reply to Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel.

Poems (29)

  1. A Panegyrick to His Excellency General Monck, March 28, 1660
  2. The Genius Speech
  3. A Panegyrick on His Majesties Entrance into London
  4. Some Tears Dropt o're the Herse of the Incomparable Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
  5. His Mistress
  6. The Protestation
  7. The Passionate Lover
  8. Corydons Complaint
  9. To Sylvia Weeping
  10. Thyrsis in Despaire
  11. Absence
  12. Daphnis Fled
  13. To Lucia Playing on Her Lute
  14. Another (To Lucia Playing on Her Lute)
  15. To Celia on Some Verses Sent Her by Another
  16. On Love
  17. Song
  18. Damon to a Foul Maid That Courted Him
  19. To Lydia Being Retired Privately into the Country
  20. Poema Valedictorium Perdilecto intimoque Suo amico transfreturo
  21. Epigram
  22. The Depart
  23. Tystirus Complaining
  24. Damon on Amarillis Dancing in a Ring
  25. Acrostick (I)
  26. Acrostick (II)
  27. The Recovery
  28. Innocentia & Politia. Veritas & Panurgia
  29. An Elegy on the Matchless Murther of Charls the First of Happy and Blessed Memory

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