The Christian poet, or divine poems on the four last things [T75628]
- DMI number:
- 545
- Publication Date:
- 1735
- ESTC number:
- T75628
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW118567023
- Shelfmark:
- BL 1163.b.10
- Full Title:
- THE | Christian [i]POET[/i], | OR | Divine Poems | On the FOUR Last THINGS. | ([i]VIZ.[/i]) | [two columns] [col 1]DEATH, | JUDGMENT,[/col 1] | [col 2]HEAVEN | and HELL[/col 2] | Written by the | [two columns] [col 1]Rev. Mr. POMFRET | E. of ROSCOMMON | Mr. NORRIS,[/col 1] | [col 2]Mr. WESTLEY, | DAN. DE FOE | and OTHERS. | To which is added, | A POEM on the RESURRECTION, by the | late [i]Joseph Addison[/i], Esq; | A Birth-Day POEM, by the [i]Dean Swift[/i]. | On Virtue, &c. by Mr. [i]Pope.[/i] | On Eternity, by Mr. [i]Gay[/i]. | With several other Divine POEMS. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed and Sold by the Booksellers in | Town and Country. 1735.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of religious verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- [2], iii-vi, [2], 1-48, 135-188.
- Bibliographic details:
- Note about mispagination on verso of title page. ESTC suggests: 'Possibly parts of a larger collection' and notes 'The mispagination is corrected in a note printed on the verso of the titlepage, but sig. K1-3 are missing and the work has a final catchword "Con" on p.188.' The catchword is explained by the transferral of the contents to the start of the book by the binder (Contents is followed by 'The END') - Perhaps the contents page is new (reflecting a decision to change / remove poems that leads to mispagination) - it is titled 'THE CONTENTS' and so the catchword on p. 188 should properly be 'THE', not 'Con'. Sig.L4 is missigned 'E4'.
- Comments:
- COMMENTS: Duplicate poem: poem 4060 appears twice, on pp. 17-8 and 187-8.
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY MATTER: Note about mispagination (1p.); Preface (pp. iii-vi); Contents (2pp.).
- First Line:
- Thou beauty's vast abyss abstract of all
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- Seraphick Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'm almost to the fatal period come
- Page No:
- pp.2-3
- Poem Title:
- Thoughts on Death.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now the black days of universal doom
- Page No:
- pp.4-16
- Poem Title:
- On the Day of Judgment. A Pindaric Essay.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail sacred Salem placed on high
- Page No:
- pp.17-18
- Poem Title:
- Hymn on Heaven.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What glorious things of thee O glorious place
- Page No:
- pp.18-22
- Poem Title:
- On Heaven.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Deep to unfathomable spaces deep
- Page No:
- pp.22-26
- Poem Title:
- A Description of Hell, In Imitation of Mr. Milton.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I come I come and joyfully obey
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- On Death.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All you who leap religion's sacred fence
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- The Warning.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where shall an unexperienced muse begin
- Page No:
- pp.28-30
- Poem Title:
- On Sin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis a sad painful living death he dies
- Page No:
- pp.30-32
- Poem Title:
- On Repentance.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Think not to die and in the senseless tomb
- Page No:
- pp.32-34
- Poem Title:
- On Hell.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Celestial faith lend me thy piercing eye
- Page No:
- pp.34-37
- Poem Title:
- On Heaven.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The pencil's glowing lines and vast command
- Page No:
- pp.38-43
- Poem Title:
- On the Resurrection.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Addison
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- First Line:
- Oh be thou blessed with all that heaven can send
- Page No:
- pp.43-44
- Poem Title:
- A Birth-Day Poem.
- Attribution:
- By Dean Swift
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Ere the foundations of the world were laid
- Page No:
- pp.44-45
- Poem Title:
- On Eternity.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. J. Gay
- Attributed To:
- John Gay
- First Line:
- The day of wrath that dreadful day
- Page No:
- pp.45-48
- Poem Title:
- On the Last Judgment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Know then this truth enough for man to know
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- On Virtue, &c.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- First Line:
- At length the dismal strife is past
- Page No:
- pp.135-146
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue Between a good Spirit newly parted from the Body, and the Angels that came to conduct him to Glory.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Bowden.
- Attributed To:
- John Bowden
- First Line:
- Long struggling in the agonies of death
- Page No:
- pp.146-151
- Poem Title:
- A Dialogue Between the fallen Angels and a human Spirit just entred into the other World.
- Attribution:
- By an unknown Hand.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since we can die but once and after death
- Page No:
- pp.151-163
- Poem Title:
- A Prospect of Death. A Pindarique Essay.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- It must be done my soul but 'tis a strange
- Page No:
- pp.163-165
- Poem Title:
- The Meditation.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No more let men superior wisdom boast
- Page No:
- pp.166-168
- Poem Title:
- Verses by a Gentlewoman in a Weak State of Health, on Reading the Works of Madam de Mottevil, a French Lady.
- Attribution:
- By a Gentlewoman
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Satan with hideous ruin thus suppressed
- Page No:
- pp.169-172
- Poem Title:
- On the Fallen Angels.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My harbingers the seven archangels bright
- Page No:
- pp.173-181
- Poem Title:
- On the Resurrection.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When life's first bloom affords untainted joy
- Page No:
- pp.182-183
- Poem Title:
- Death: A Sonnet.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When sudden vapours whirl the brain around
- Page No:
- pp.183-184
- Poem Title:
- Verses wrote by a Gentleman in an Epileptic Fit.
- Attribution:
- By a Gentleman
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hark from on high a cheering voice
- Page No:
- pp.185-186
- Poem Title:
- Blessed are the Dead which die in the Lord. Rev. xiv. 13.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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