A collection of moral and sacred poems from the most celebrated English authors [Volume II] [T16524] [ECCO]

DMI number:

939

Publication Date:

1744

Volume Number:

2 of 3

ESTC number:

T16524 [vol II]

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW110466276

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | MORAL and SACRED | POEMS, | [rule] | PUBLISH'D | By JOHN WESLEY, M. A. | FELLOW of [i]Lincoln-College[/i], OXFORD. | [rule] | Vol. II. | [rule] | [i]BRISTOL:[/i] | Printed by FELIX FARLEY, M.D.CC.X.LIV. | And sold by the Booksellers of [i]London[/i], [i]Newcastle[/i], | [i]Bristol[/i], [i]Bath[/i], [i]Exeter,[/i] &c. |

Place of Publication:

Bristol

Genres:

Collection of religious verse

Format:

Duodecimo

Bibliographic details:

ECCO copy is missing pp. 18-19, 34, 39.

Comments:

Contents: Latin verse p. 166.

Related Miscellanies

Title:

A collection of moral and sacred poems from the most celebrated English authors [vol I] [T16524] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1744

ESTC No:

T16524 [vol I]

Volume:

1 of 3

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Title:

A collection of moral and sacred poems from the most celebrated English authors [Volume III] [T16524] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1744

ESTC No:

T16524 [vol III]

Volume:

3 of 3

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

John Wesley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Publisher:

Felix Farley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64311

Content/Publication

First Line:

Who shall decide when doctors disagree

Page No:

pp.3-14

Poem Title:

Of the True Use of Riches. To the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Look round the habitable world how few

Page No:

pp.15-33

Poem Title:

The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal, translated

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Let this auspicious morning be expressed

Page No:

pp.35-38

Poem Title:

The Second Satyr of Persius. Translated

Attribution:

by Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

My verse is satire Dorset lend your ear

Page No:

pp.40-49

Poem Title:

Love of Fame The Universal Passion. To his Grace the Duke of Dorset. Satire I.

Attribution:

By Dr. Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

First Line:

My muse proceed and reach thy destined end

Page No:

pp.50-56

Poem Title:

Satire II.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who gives his tongue a loose so bold and vain

Page No:

pp.57-70

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on the 38th, 39th, 40th and 41st Chapters of Job.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While others sing the fortune of the great

Page No:

pp.71-94

Poem Title:

The Last Day.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The sun that rolls his beamy orb on high

Page No:

pp.95-99

Poem Title:

The Forty-Third Chapter of Ecclesiasticus. Paraphrased

Attribution:

by the Rev'd Mr. Broome.

Attributed To:

William Broome

First Line:

Beings that lifeless merely being have

Page No:

pp.100-134

Poem Title:

The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd

Attribution:

By Mark Le-Pla, Late Vicar of Finchingfield in Essex

Attributed To:

Mark Le Pla

First Line:

Where proud Augusta blessed with long repose

Page No:

pp.135-141

Poem Title:

Bedlam

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald.

Attributed To:

Thomas Fitzgerald

First Line:

No glory I covet no riches I want

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The charms which blooming beauty shows

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thee thee my rising soul aspires to sing

Page No:

pp.144-148

Poem Title:

The Hundred and Fourth Psalm Paraphrased.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From the third morning dawned the orient light

Page No:

pp.149-156

Poem Title:

Abraham's Sacrifice.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fain would I sing the power supreme

Page No:

pp.157-159

Poem Title:

An Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What man in his wits had not rather be poor

Page No:

pp.159-160

Poem Title:

On Riches.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What path of life by man is trod | without repenting at the road

Page No:

pp.160-161

Poem Title:

Against Life. From the Greek.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What path of life by man is trod | without rejoicing at the road

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

For Life. From the Greek.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The lofty pyramid that threats the skies

Page No:

p.162

Poem Title:

The Pyramid. In Latin and English.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here sleep whom neither life nor love

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

Epitaph On a Man and his Wife.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Is then that hero numbered with the dead

Page No:

p.163

Poem Title:

On the Death of Alexander the Great.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The Macedonian youth with tears deplored

Page No:

p.164

Poem Title:

Alexander and Xerxes. In Latin and English.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To the dark and silent tomb

Page No:

pp.165-166

Poem Title:

Epitaph on an Infant.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If friend a wife you mean to wed

Page No:

pp.167-169

Poem Title:

Melissa.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Silent nymph with curious eye

Page No:

pp.170-175

Poem Title:

Grongar Hill.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The Thracian infant entering into life

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

The Thracian.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On Stygian banks Diogenes the wise

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

Epigram from the Greek.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The Lydian prince is blamed for wealth alone

Page No:

p.176

Poem Title:

On the foregoing Epigram.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A monster in a course of vice grown old

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

The Monument.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ye courtiers who the blessings know

Page No:

pp.177-178

Poem Title:

The Savage; Occasion'd by the bringing to Court a Wild Youth, taken in the Woods in Germany, in the Year 1725.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though time in haste for ever glide along

Page No:

pp.179-184

Poem Title:

An Essay on Time.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah fleeting spirit wandering fire

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

Adriani morientis ad Animam: Or, the Heathen to his Departing Soul.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Vital spark of heavenly flame

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

Christiani morientis ad Animam: Or, The Christian to his Departing Soul.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See Stella yonder picture see

Page No:

pp.186-187

Poem Title:

To Stella, on her Picture.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In lonesome cave

Page No:

pp.187-191

Poem Title:

A Hermit's Meditation.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Deep in a desert solitary wild

Page No:

pp.191-193

Poem Title:

Wrote at Ocriculum in Italy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Laborious passenger look down

Page No:

p.194

Poem Title:

On an Open Grave.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis weak and worldly to conclude

Page No:

pp.195-196

Poem Title:

The Retirement.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis vain my soul tis impious all

Page No:

pp.196-197

Poem Title:

A Thought upon Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We to Jehovah's altar bring

Page No:

pp.198-200

Poem Title:

On The Creation.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In even scale by truth divine

Page No:

pp.200-201

Poem Title:

On the Death of A good poor Woman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Begin the joyous nuptial sing

Page No:

pp.201-202

Poem Title:

An Anacreontick Ode, Upon a Wedding after Thirteen Years Courtship.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let others write for by designs

Page No:

pp.203-204

Poem Title:

To A Young Lady on her Birth-Day, Being the First of April.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Boast not ye few your better fate

Page No:

p.204

Poem Title:

On a Fine Day.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To endless rounds of hopes and fears

Page No:

pp.205-207

Poem Title:

An Ode Sung At the Anniversary Meeting of a very worthy and antient Fraternity.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If you will use the little that you have

Page No:

pp.208-209

Poem Title:

A Fragment Of an Epistle to a Friend, In Imitation of one of Horace's.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O muse unfeigned o true celestial fire

Page No:

pp.210-216

Poem Title:

An Ode To the Creator of the World.

Attribution:

By Mr. John Hughes.

Attributed To:

John Hughes

First Line:

See how those dropping monuments decay

Page No:

pp.217-219

Poem Title:

A Monumental Ode. To the Memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes. Late Wife of Edward Hughes, Esq.; of Hertingfordbury, in the County of Hertford, and Daughter of Richard Harrison, Esq.; of Balls in the same County. Obiit 15 Nov. MDCCXIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I leave mortality's low sphere

Page No:

pp.220-228

Poem Title:

The Ecstasy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tired nature's sweet restorer balmy sleep

Page No:

pp.229-243

Poem Title:

The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality. Night the First.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When the cock crew he wept smote by that eye

Page No:

pp.244-261

Poem Title:

The Complaint. Night the Second.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How deep implanted in the breast of man

Page No:

pp.262-284

Poem Title:

The Complaint. Night the Fourth.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lorenzo to recriminate is just

Page No:

pp.285-308

Poem Title:

The Complaint. Night The Fifth.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She for I know not yet her name in heaven

Page No:

pp.309-338

Poem Title:

Night the Sixth.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Heaven gives the needful but neglected call

Page No:

pp.339-373

Poem Title:

The Complaint. Night the Seventh. The Proof and Importance of Immortality.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed