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Poems on Several Occasions (Matthew Prior) by Matthew Prior, 1707, 1709, 1718, 1721; Poems on Several Occasions (Henry Carey) by Henry Carey, 1713; Poems on Several Occasions (John Gay) by John Gay, 1720; Poems on Several Occasions (Christopher Smart) by Christopher Smart, 1752; Poems on Several Occasions (Michael Bruce) by Michael Bruce, 1770
Poems on Several Occasions was a poetry collection, published by the intellectual feminist, Lady Mary Chudleigh in 1703. [1] The primary subject of the collection is the joys of friendship between women when that friendship is based on shared morals and shared intellectual pursuits; although, there are also poems on various other topics.
Sermons on Several Occasions is a collection of discourses or sermons published by Wesley, expounding on topics such as salvation by faith, the witness of the Spirit, the means of grace, and Christian perfection.
several (fluid) ounces ("just a drop of tea, please") (meiotic usage) droplet (less than a milliliter) duck a score of zero by a batsman in cricket, supposedly derived from the zero-like shape of a duck's egg. Hence to "break one's duck": to score one's first run. c.f. US: "get the monkey off one's back" a term of endearment
David F. Swenson translated the book as Thoughts on Crucial Situations in Human Life (subtitle: Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions) in 1941 and Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong did so in 1993 under the title, Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions. What It Means To Seek God, On the Occasion of a Confessional Service
It is not a genre, but several genres originate as occasional poetry, including epithalamia (wedding songs), dirges or funerary poems, paeans, and victory odes. Occasional poems may also be composed exclusive of or within any given set of genre conventions to commemorate single events or anniversaries, such as birthdays, foundings, or dedications.
Titlepage to 1645 Poems, with frontispiece depicting Milton surrounded by four muses, designed by William Marshall. Milton's 1645 Poems is a collection, divided into separate English and Latin sections, of John Milton's youthful poetry in a variety of genres, including such notable works as An Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Comus and Lycidas.