A collection of poems on divine and moral subjects, selected from various authors. [T97392] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1294

Publication Date:

1775

Volume Number:

1 of 11

ESTC number:

T97392

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW112595513

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS | ON | DIVINE AND MORAL SUBJECTS, | SELECTED FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS. | BY | WILLIAM GILES. | LONDON: | PRINTED BY M. LEWIS: | SOLD BY BUCKLAND, PATERNOSTER ROW; KEITH, | GRACECHURCH STREET; VALLANCE AND SIMMONS, | CHEAPSIDE; AND MATHEWS IN THE STRAND. | M.DCC.LXXV.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of religious verse and Subscription Miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Half title.

Other matter:

Subscription list: pp.i-iv. Contents: pp.v-viii. Preface: pp.ix-xvi. Advertisement: "Published by the Editor," p.[304]

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First Line:

From earth's low prospects and deceitful aims

Page No:

pp.1-38

Poem Title:

Deity. A Poem.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. Samuel Boyse.

Attributed To:

Samuel Boyse

First Line:

No forms of beauty in that more than man

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

Epigram on Isaiah LIII. ii.

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First Line:

Midst various mercies that exalted shine

Page No:

pp.39-41

Poem Title:

On the Love of Christ.

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First Line:

When fostering dews their moistening influence shed

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

On Hosea XIV. V.

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First Line:

O could the muse now swell with David's fire

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pp.42-44

Poem Title:

On the Excellence of Sacred Poesy.

Attribution:

By Mr. Tooke.

Attributed To:

Charles Tooke

First Line:

Say passing friend why read the sculptured tomb

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

An Epitaph.

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First Line:

The venturous merchant filled with hopes of gain

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pp.45-46

Poem Title:

A Comparison on seeing a ship lost in the downs.

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First Line:

When Egypt's king God's chosen tribes pursued

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

Epigram on the children of Israel's passage out of Egypt.

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First Line:

Omniscient Lord before whose awful eye

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

Love to Christ. John XXI. xvii.

Attribution:

By Miss Steel.

Attributed To:

Anne Steele

First Line:

When Jacob's God arranged the priestly line

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

Epigram on hearing a minister of the gospel preach.

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First Line:

What soft delight the peaceful bosom warms

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pp.49-50

Poem Title:

A Rural Meditation.

Attribution:

By Miss Steel.

Attributed To:

Anne Steele

First Line:

My barren soul like this unfruitful tree

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

The Barren Fig Tree. Luke XIII. VI. &c.

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First Line:

Sojourning here below immortal man

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

Written on seeing a print, entitled, The Bad Man at the Hour of Death.

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First Line:

Parent of health to thee I awful sue

Page No:

p.52

Poem Title:

The following lines were written by a gentleman on his wedding-day, two and thirty years after marrying his wife, being now sick at Bath.

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written by a gentleman

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Not attributed

First Line:

Bring me o bring me to my Juliet's arms

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

Reflections at an Inn, by the Sea-Side, After a Dangerous Voyage.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Jones, Vicar of Caldicut.

Attributed To:

Lewis Jones

First Line:

Reclined I lay where through my garden glides

Page No:

p.54

Poem Title:

A Thought in a Garden.

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First Line:

Far in a wild unknown to public view

Page No:

pp.55-63

Poem Title:

The Hermit.

Attribution:

By Dr. Parnell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

Have angels sinned and shall not men beware

Page No:

p.63

Poem Title:

An Exhortation. "Watch."

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First Line:

Wilt thou supreme Jehovah condescend

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

Self Abasement. A Soliloquy.

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First Line:

How weak the atheist's argument how odd

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

On the Folly of Atheism.

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First Line:

In youth by hope removed to distant days

Page No:

pp.66-67

Poem Title:

Thoughts on Death.

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First Line:

Let Rome on man God's image to deface

Page No:

p.67

Poem Title:

On Reading Bishop Warburton's Sermons.

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First Line:

Gracious and blessed how shall the muse aspire

Page No:

pp.68-70

Poem Title:

On Recovery from Sickness.

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First Line:

O mighty faith what matchless power is thine

Page No:

p.70

Poem Title:

Written after hearing a sermon preached from Matt. XIV. XXIX.

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First Line:

Expanded now hell's spacious portal lay

Page No:

pp.71-79

Poem Title:

The Speech of Lucifer. A Fragment.

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First Line:

Shall man who blindly wanders nature through

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

Some Lines occasioned by a series of theological enquiries.

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First Line:

See manly grief see tears incessant flow

Page No:

p.80

Poem Title:

Epigram on John II. xxxv. "Jesus Wept."

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First Line:

Why start this case will yours be very soon

Page No:

p.81

Poem Title:

The Scull's Address, on being looked at.

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First Line:

A common theme a flattering muse may fire

Page No:

pp.82-88

Poem Title:

A Poem, sacred to the memory of a dearly beloved and only daughter, who died in the eleventh year of her age.

Attribution:

Written by her mourning father.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Yet while we live what gratitude we owe

Page No:

p.88

Poem Title:

A Few Lines written after the shock of an earth-quake.

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First Line:

It comes the wished the long expected morn

Page No:

pp.89-104

Poem Title:

Redemption. A Poem.

Attribution:

By Henry Brooke, Esq.

Attributed To:

Henry Brooke

First Line:

Why hang thy hopes on beauty's fading flower

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

To a Friend, on his owning that the exterior Charms of a Young Lady had engaged his Affections.

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First Line:

Blessed babe who stranger to all worldly strife

Page No:

pp.105-107

Poem Title:

To a Child of a Month Old.

Attribution:

By J. C.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Three sisters of one heavenly parent born

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

On Faith, Hope, and Charity.

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First Line:

For various trials from our birth designed

Page No:

pp.109-113

Poem Title:

The Christian Hero.

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First Line:

Where ever kind providence directs thy way

Page No:

pp.114-115

Poem Title:

To Eloisa, distressed about temporal circumstances a little before marriage.

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First Line:

Life like a plaything humours us a while

Page No:

pp.116-119

Poem Title:

Reflections on the vain pursuits and imperfect enjoyments of human life.

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First Line:

Now spent the fallen king in amorous cares

Page No:

pp.120-126

Poem Title:

The Poor Man's Lamb. A Paraphrase of Nathan's parable to David, after the murder of Uriah, and his marriage with Bathsheba.

Attribution:

By the Honourable Countess of Winchilsea.

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

On wings of winds his journey Rumor sped

Page No:

p.126

Poem Title:

Epigram on the false report of Mrs. K--y's Death.

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First Line:

While heaven and earth solicit me to love

Page No:

pp.127-128

Poem Title:

Thoughts on Psalm CXIX. XX.

Attribution:

From Hugo.

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Not attributed

First Line:

In what a maze of error here I stray

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

Thoughts on Psalm CXIX. V.

Attribution:

From the Same. [i.e. 'Hugo'.]

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Not attributed

First Line:

The vernal flowers unconscious of their bloom

Page No:

pp.131-135

Poem Title:

Reflections on the Misimprovement of Time.

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First Line:

Studious of art the soft assiduous fair

Page No:

p.135

Poem Title:

Written extempore, on a Lady's presenting the Author a volume of sea weeds, so disposed on the leaves, as to imitate trees, shrubs, &c.

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First Line:

Thou who dost all my worldly thoughts employ

Page No:

p.136

Poem Title:

Verses, written by a Lady at Bath, and sent to her Husband a few days before she died.

Attribution:

written by a Lady

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Not attributed

First Line:

Ye nymphs of Solyma begin the song

Page No:

pp.137-140

Poem Title:

The Messiah.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

In my high capitol two sentries dwell

Page No:

pp.141-142

Poem Title:

Thoughts on Psalm CXIX. XXXVII.

Attribution:

From Hugo.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Should love divine at death my breast inspire

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

Reflections on Psalm XCLVI. II.

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First Line:

What shall I seek great God in heaven above

Page No:

pp.144-146

Poem Title:

Thoughts on Psalm LXXIII. XXIV.

Attribution:

From Hugo.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Along the sunny bank or watery mead

Page No:

p.146

Poem Title:

A Reproof From Prior's Soloman.

Attribution:

Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Yon wide expanse proclaims a power divine

Page No:

pp.147-155

Poem Title:

A Soliloquy on the Nativity of Christ.

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First Line:

Sylvia to thee this withered rose I send

Page No:

pp.156-159

Poem Title:

To a Lady with a withered Rose.

Attribution:

By Thomas Drummond, L. L. D.

Attributed To:

Thomas Drummond

First Line:

How solemn is the pile how still the scenes

Page No:

pp.160-170

Poem Title:

St. Dennis: Or, The Vanity of Human Greatness.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Thomas Drummond, L. L. D.]

Attributed To:

Thomas Drummond

First Line:

Freed from the toils of war and long distress

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

Epigram on seeing Workmen employed on the Sabbath Day in making Preparations for the Fire Works to Celebrate the Peace in 1749.

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First Line:

Though time in haste for ever glides along

Page No:

pp.163-167

Poem Title:

An Essay on Time.

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First Line:

All you who leap religion's sacred fence

Page No:

p.167

Poem Title:

The Warning.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Whether amid the gloom of night I stray

Page No:

pp.168-169

Poem Title:

A Contemplation on Night.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gay.

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Ere the foundations of the world were laid

Page No:

pp.170-171

Poem Title:

A Thought on Eternity.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Gay]

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

If when the branch cut off a withered rod

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

A Reasonable Question.

Attribution:

From Prior's Solomon.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Immortal God whom men and angels own

Page No:

pp.172-175

Poem Title:

The Christian Hero.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Thou heaven born gift of more exalted kind

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

On Charity.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

How shall I do to fix my doubtful love

Page No:

pp.176-178

Poem Title:

Thoughts on Philip. I. XXIII.

Attribution:

From Hugo.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Great source of bliss send down a gracious beam

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

Sacred Contentment. Dedicated to the Afflicted Mind.

Attribution:

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First Line:

With promised joys my ears thou oft didst fill

Page No:

pp.181-184

Poem Title:

Thoughts on Psalm XLII. II.

Attribution:

From Hugo.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail wedded love by gracious God designed

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

Epigram on the excellency of the marriage state.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Haste my bright sun haste from my dazzled sight

Page No:

pp.185-187

Poem Title:

Thoughts on Cant. VIII. XIV.

Attribution:

From Hugo.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Praise to the power whose love's unerring dart

Page No:

p.187

Poem Title:

On St. Paul's Conversion.

Attribution:

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First Line:

No sooner time his hasty flight began

Page No:

pp.188-190

Poem Title:

Part of Psalm XC. Paraphrased.

Attribution:

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First Line:

When sickness shall assail my noblest part

Page No:

p.190

Poem Title:

Thoughts in Health.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue

Page No:

pp.191-193

Poem Title:

Charity. I Cor. Chap. XIII. Paraphrased.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Who laughs at sin laughs at his maker's frowns

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

The Folly of Laughing at Sin.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. Joseph Stennett.

Attributed To:

Joseph Stennett

First Line:

When my breast labours with oppressive care

Page No:

pp.194-195

Poem Title:

Part of VI. Chap. Matthew,

Attribution:

Paraphrased by Mr. Thomson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Attend my soul the early birds inspire

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

A Thought at Waking.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What am I how produced and for what end

Page No:

pp.196-200

Poem Title:

Know Yourself.

Attribution:

By the late Dr. Arbuthnot.

Attributed To:

John Arbuthnot

First Line:

Where proud Augusta blessed with long repose

Page No:

pp.201-207

Poem Title:

Bedlam.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald.

Attributed To:

Thomas Fitzgerald

First Line:

Say ye whose heads decline with weight of years

Page No:

p.207

Poem Title:

A Question to Misers.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Bright source of bliss whose cheering rays inspire

Page No:

p.208

Poem Title:

Thoughts on Contentment.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Such his reward whose zeal had borne its test

Page No:

p.209

Poem Title:

On John the Baptist, who was beheaded by Herod Antipas.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

All men like watches various periods share

Page No:

p.210

Poem Title:

On a Watch.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hail happy pair tis friendship tunes the lay

Page No:

pp.211-214

Poem Title:

To Theophilus and Uphalai. On the Day of Marriage.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The niggard miser midst his hoarded store

Page No:

p.214

Poem Title:

Epigram on a Miser.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Stern winter hence with all his train removes

Page No:

pp.215-218

Poem Title:

Elegy Written at the Approach of Spring.

Attribution:

By John Scott, Esq.

Attributed To:

John Scott

First Line:

In different seasons different joys we place

Page No:

p.218

Poem Title:

Extract.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. John Scott, Esq.]

Attributed To:

John Scott

First Line:

The sun far southward bends his annual way

Page No:

pp.219-222

Poem Title:

Elegy Written at the Approach of Winter.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. John Scott, Esq.]

Attributed To:

John Scott

First Line:

Yon lucid beam revives the verdant field

Page No:

p.222

Poem Title:

On Seeing the Sun Shine.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear infant babe thou lovely smiling boy

Page No:

p.223

Poem Title:

A Father's Soliloquy over his Dead Child.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

To shew the matchless worth of truth divine

Page No:

pp.224-225

Poem Title:

Lines written after hearing a Sermon preached from II Tim. II. III.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Great God to thee what gratitude I owe

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

On the Entrance of a New Year.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail glorious author of creation's frame

Page No:

pp.226-233

Poem Title:

A Moral Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Faint emblem that of Eden's happy shade

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

On Seeing a Group of Trees.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

From the third morning dawned the orient light

Page No:

pp.234-241

Poem Title:

Abraham's Sacrifice.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This bubbling stream not uninstructive flows

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

Written under an Hour Glass, in a Grotto near the Side of a River.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Graves

Attributed To:

Richard Graves

First Line:

Beauty complete and majesty divine

Page No:

pp.242-243

Poem Title:

On the Works of Creation.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Rowe.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]

First Line:

Did christ or his apostles ever play

Page No:

p.243

Poem Title:

On a Clergyman's Gaming at Bath.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From finished prayer the flock disperse apace

Page No:

pp.244-245

Poem Title:

Serious Thoughts on a Late Coronation.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In what soft language shall my thoughts get free

Page No:

pp.246-249

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Thomas Rowe.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Rowe.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]

First Line:

O balmy name o source of lasting joy

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

Epigram on Cant. I. III.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis done the darling idol I resign

Page No:

pp.250-252

Poem Title:

The Resignation.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Rowe.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]

First Line:

The seas are quiet when the winds give over

Page No:

p.252

Poem Title:

The State of Old Age.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Has not kind heaven regarding human woe

Page No:

pp.253-255

Poem Title:

Chap. VII. of Job Paraphrased.

Attribution:

By the late Mr. Samuel Boyse.

Attributed To:

Samuel Boyse

First Line:

Thus Job began cursed be the fatal morn

Page No:

pp.256-257

Poem Title:

Chap. III. of Job Translated.

Attribution:

By the same [i.e. Samuel Boyse]

Attributed To:

Samuel Boyse

First Line:

Mark how ere eve the morning honours fade

Page No:

p.257

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a young Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thy glory Israel and thy beauty mourn

Page No:

pp.258-259

Poem Title:

David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On Edward's brow no laurels cast a shade

Page No:

p.259

Poem Title:

An Inscription, Designed for the Statue of Edward the Sixth, in St. Thomas's Hospital.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Where the fair streams of famed Euphrates stray

Page No:

p.260

Poem Title:

Psalm CXXXVII. Paraphrased.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In early times well known to public fame

Page No:

pp.261-271

Poem Title:

Jonah. A Poem.

Attribution:

By Mr. Joseph Mitchell.

Attributed To:

Joseph Mitchell

First Line:

Hear all ye deaf no more be hopeless sad

Page No:

pp.279-285

Poem Title:

On the Coming of the Messiah.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Dr. J. Fortescue.

Attributed To:

James Fortescue

First Line:

O wit to human minds the dangerous lure

Page No:

p.285

Poem Title:

On Wit.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Struck with religious awe and solemn dread

Page No:

pp.286-289

Poem Title:

A Soliloquy. Written In a Country Church-Yard.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Moore, of Cornwall.

Attributed To:

Anthony Moore

First Line:

Believe me sir he's neither good nor great

Page No:

p.289

Poem Title:

To a Friend on Riches.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Arise my soul on wings seraphic rise

Page No:

pp.290-295

Poem Title:

Psalm CIV.

Attribution:

Imitated by Mr. Tho. Bklacklock.

Attributed To:

Thomas Blacklock

First Line:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

Page No:

pp.296-300

Poem Title:

Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard.

Attribution:

By Mr. Gray

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth

Page No:

p.301

Poem Title:

The Epitaph.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

True emblem that of this much honoured race

Page No:

p.301

Poem Title:

Epigram on Seeing the Moon.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From busy scenes with peace alone retired

Page No:

p.302

Poem Title:

Written in a Garden.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Nature ordains that whilst here we dwell below

Page No:

p.303

Poem Title:

Learned Ignorance. From Grotius.

Attribution:

By Mr. Needler.

Attributed To:

Henry Needler