Mitchell, Joseph (c. 1684-1738)

To the Right Honourable John Earl of Stair, Before the Election of Sixteen Peers for Scotland, Anno Dom. 1722.

1729

"Souls, of your Stamp, can pity and protect, / And gather Fame from other Men's Neglect"

Shou'd Stair, regardless of a wretched Muse,
His kind Protection to my Verse refuse,
What generous Peer, of Caledonian Blood,
Or will, or can do Mitchell's Genius Good?
Others may boast a showy Pow'r, and State--
But who, like Stair, at once is good and great?
Be This your Glory still--nor scorn his Lays,
Who scorns to prove a Prostitute, for Praise.
Tho' long I've wander'd fickle Fortune's Sport,
By Priests pursu'd, unheeded by the Court,
Souls, of your Stamp, can pity and protect,
And gather Fame from other Men's Neglect.
So Fools, sometimes, unpolish'd Gems despise,
Whose Value, known, distinguishes the wise.

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Poem dated 1722. 3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1729, 1732).

Text from Joseph Mitchell, Poems on Several Occasions, 2 vols. (London: Harmen Noorthouck, 1732). <Link to ECCO>

See also Poems on Several Occasions. (London: Printed for the author, and sold by L. Gilliver at Homer’s Head against St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleetstreet, 1729). <Link to ESTC>

04/08/2005