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

DMI number:

966

Publication Date:

1744

Volume Number:

3 of 3

ESTC number:

T16524 [vol III]

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW3310466643

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION | OF | MORAL and SACRED | POEMS. | [rule] | PUBLISH'D | By JOHN WESLEY, A. M.| FELLOW of [i]Lincoln-College[/i], OXFORD. | [rule] | VOL. III. | [rule] | [i]BRISTOL:[/i] | Printed by FELIX FARLEY, M.D.CC.XLIV. | 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

Other matter:

Back matter: Contents of all three volumes [8pp.]; Books Publish'd by the Reverend Mr. John and Charles Welsey [2pp.]; Errata [2pp.]

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 II] [T16524] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1744

ESTC No:

T16524 [vol II]

Volume:

2 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:

Author of being source of light

Page No:

pp.3-8

Poem Title:

Eupolis' Hymn to the Creator. From the Greek.

Attribution:

By Samuel Wesley, Sen. A. M.

Attributed To:

Samuel Wesley

First Line:

What art thou happiness or where

Page No:

pp.9-12

Poem Title:

On Happiness.

Attribution:

By Samuel Wesley, Jun. M.A.

Attributed To:

Samuel Wesley

First Line:

Thou for whose view these numbers were designed

Page No:

pp.13-38

Poem Title:

The Battle of the Sexes

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The morning flowers display their sweets

Page No:

pp.39-40

Poem Title:

On the Sixth and Eighth Verses of the Fortieth Chapter of Isiah. Occasioned by The Death of a Young Lady.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Beneath a sleeping infant lies

Page No:

p. 40

Poem Title:

Epitaph on an Infant.

Attribution:

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First Line:

This would be still my wish could I

Page No:

pp.41-43

Poem Title:

To a Friend in the Country, Who complain'd of his Condition, and admired High Spirits in Low Fortunes.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Pleasantest companion this

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

From Martial.

Attribution:

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First Line:

In friendly part a well meant gift receive

Page No:

pp.44-48

Poem Title:

To Sir Herbert Powell, Bar. Upon his going to Travel.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Accept dear sire this humble tribute paid

Page No:

pp.49-57

Poem Title:

The Parish Priest.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A blooming youth lies buried here

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

Epigram from the Greek.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Say shall I try your growing sense to improve

Page No:

pp.58-64

Poem Title:

A Letter from A Guardian to a Young Lady.

Attribution:

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First Line:

What man in his wits had not rather be poor

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Tis justly thought to praise is ever hard

Page No:

pp.66-69

Poem Title:

On Mr. Hobbes. Occasioned by a Copy of Verses written by the Earl of Mulgrave.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

If aught beneath them happy souls attend

Page No:

pp.70-72

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Morgan of Christ-Church, Oxford.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Live there composed of earthly frame

Page No:

pp.73-77

Poem Title:

Reflections Upon these two Verses of Mr. Oldham: Lord of Myself, accountable to none, | But to my Conscience, and my God alone.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I sing a prelate good unbodied now

Page No:

pp.78-86

Poem Title:

To the Memory of the Right Revd Francis Gastrell, D.D. Lord Bishop of Chester.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

I plucked this morn these beauteous flowers

Page No:

p.86

Poem Title:

An Anacreontick, Alter'd from Herbert.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I who was late concerned to hear

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

To a Young Gentleman, On his Recovery from a Fit of Sickness.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

O thou sweet musing in the umbrageous grots

Page No:

pp.89-93

Poem Title:

The Descriptive: A Miltonick. After the Manner of the Moderns.

Attribution:

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First Line:

What makes you write at this odd rate

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

Epigram On the foregoing Miltonicks.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Arise and soar my towering soul

Page No:

pp.94-97

Poem Title:

An Ode to James Oglethorpe, Esq; In the Country. A.D. 1728.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Let arms and warriors other poets fire

Page No:

pp.98-112

Poem Title:

The Prisons Open'd.

Attribution:

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First Line:

See the springing day from far

Page No:

pp.113-117

Poem Title:

A Wedding-song.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hail venerable South be honour paid

Page No:

pp.118-123

Poem Title:

To the Memory of the Reverend Dr. South.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Cowley to his native isle

Page No:

pp.124-127

Poem Title:

A Pindarick Ode to the Right Hon. the Earl of Oxford. Written Soon after the Lady Margaret Harley was Recovered from a Fever.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If ever to writing you pretend

Page No:

pp.128-133

Poem Title:

Advice to One who was about to Write, To avoid the Immoralities of the Antient and Modern Poets.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

No fabling song my mournful heart assay

Page No:

pp.134-139

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mrs. Morice, Wife to William Morice, Esq; and Daughter of the Rt. Revd. Francis, late Lord Bishop of Rochester.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Never tempt me to caress

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

Anacreontick, From Herbert.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Let various seasons boast their pride

Page No:

pp.140-142

Poem Title:

The December's Day: A Song. To the Tune of, The Sun was sunk beneath the Hill, &c.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Dear farewell a little while

Page No:

p.142

Poem Title:

Anacreontick, On parting with a little Child.

Attribution:

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First Line:

While the full breast swells with unuttered woe

Page No:

pp.143-146

Poem Title:

On the Death of The Right Honourable Henrietta Countess of Orrery.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Dear Kitty now my counsel take

Page No:

p.147-150

Poem Title:

To Kitty, A Poetical Young Lady.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hymns ye regents of the lyre

Page No:

pp.151-154

Poem Title:

A Pindarick Ode to the Right Hon. the Earl of Oxford. On the Marriage of The Lady Margaret Harley, with His Grace the Duke of Portland.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No not for those of women born

Page No:

p.154

Poem Title:

From a Hint in the Minor Poets.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

No not through envious time's continued course

Page No:

pp.155-160

Poem Title:

An Ode to James Oglethorpe, Esq; Written soon after the Death of The Lady Oglethorpe, his Mother.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O thou released from fears and perils now

Page No:

pp.160-163

Poem Title:

On the Death of a Friend, A Dissenter from the Church of England.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail christian prelates for your master's name

Page No:

pp.164-169

Poem Title:

On Some Blasphemous Discourses on our Saviour's Miracles.

Attribution:

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First Line:

How do they err who throw their love

Page No:

p.169

Poem Title:

Love and Reason

Attribution:

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First Line:

Here lie I once a witty fair

Page No:

p.170

Poem Title:

An Epitaph

Attribution:

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First Line:

Few and easy in your stay

Page No:

p.171

Poem Title:

Upon my Hairs falling.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis not because I sprung from nought

Page No:

pp.171-173

Poem Title:

On Humility.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From whence these dire portents around

Page No:

pp.173-174

Poem Title:

On The Passion of Our Saviour.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Enough of pagan idle toys

Page No:

pp.175-176

Poem Title:

Ode Upon Christ's Crucifixion. From the Greek.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The son of righteousness appears

Page No:

p.177

Poem Title:

An Hymn on Easter-Day.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The Lord of Sabbath let us praise

Page No:

p.178

Poem Title:

An Hymn for Sunday.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail father whose creating call

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

An Hymn to God the Father.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Hail God the son in glory crowned

Page No:

pp.180-181

Poem Title:

An Hymn to God the Son.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hail holy ghost Jehovah third

Page No:

pp.182-183

Poem Title:

An Hymn to God the Holy Ghost.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Hail holy holy holy Lord

Page No:

pp.183-184

Poem Title:

An Hymn to the Trinity, Three Persons and One God.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Jehovah sovereign God and Lord

Page No:

pp.185-188

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on the Eighth Psalm. A Pindarick Ode.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

I said when vigorous health was flown

Page No:

pp.188-192

Poem Title:

Hezekiah's Thanksgiving for his Recovery from Sickness: Isaiah 38. A Pindarick Ode.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So many years I've seen the sun

Page No:

pp.193-194

Poem Title:

The Mystery of Life.

Attribution:

By the Revd Mr. Gambold.

Attributed To:

John Gambold

First Line:

Ask not who ended here his span

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

Epitaph.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Instructive sound I'm now convinced by thee

Page No:

p.195

Poem Title:

Upon list'ning to the Vibrations of a Clock.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Here from afar the finished height

Page No:

pp.196-197

Poem Title:

On Clemens Alexandrinus's Description of a perfect Christian.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why do the deeds of happier men

Page No:

pp.198-199

Poem Title:

After Considering some of his Friends.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

To speak for God to sound religion's praise

Page No:

pp.200-205

Poem Title:

Religious Discourse.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O God thou bottomless abyss

Page No:

pp.206-209

Poem Title:

God's Greatness

Attribution:

by the Revd Mr. John and Charles Wesley.

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

And is he gone to his eternal rest

Page No:

pp.213-232

Poem Title:

On the Death of Robert Jones, Esq;

Attribution:

by the Revd Mr. John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

I saw the Lord in light arrayed

Page No:

pp.233-238

Poem Title:

The Sixth Chapter of Isaiah.

Attribution:

by the Revd Mr. John and Charles and Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

The people that in nature's night

Page No:

pp.238-241

Poem Title:

Part of the Ninth Chapter of Isaiah, Ver. 2. &c.

Attribution:

by the Revd Mr. John and Charles Wesley.

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

Thus saith the Lord the almighty Lord

Page No:

pp.241-243

Poem Title:

Part of the Tenth Chapter of Isaiah, Ver. 24. &c.

Attribution:

by the Revd John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

Glory to God and peace on earth

Page No:

pp.243-247

Poem Title:

The Eleventh Chapter of Isaiah.

Attribution:

by the Revd John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

Rejoice rejoice ye fallen race

Page No:

pp.247-255

Poem Title:

The Fourteenth Chapr of Isaiah.

Attribution:

by the Revd John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

O Lord thou art my Lord my God

Page No:

pp.255-261

Poem Title:

The 25th Chap. of Isaiah.

Attribution:

by the Revd John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

O happy soul thy work is done

Page No:

pp.261-266

Poem Title:

After the Death of a Friend.

Attribution:

by the Revd John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

Welcome weariness and pain

Page No:

pp.266-267

Poem Title:

Desiring to be dissolv'd

Attribution:

by the Revd John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

Soothing soul-composing thought

Page No:

pp.267-268

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

by the Revd John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

O death my hope is full of thee

Page No:

pp.269-270

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

by the Revd John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

Who is as the Christian great

Page No:

pp.270-271

Poem Title:

The Christian.

Attribution:

by the Revd Mr. John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

Happy the soul whom God delights

Page No:

pp.271-273

Poem Title:

The Same.

Attribution:

by the Revd Mr. John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

O how happy am I here

Page No:

pp.273-278

Poem Title:

The Life of Faith.

Attribution:

by the Revd Mr. John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

Happy soul depart in peace

Page No:

pp.278-284

Poem Title:

For a dying Friend.

Attribution:

by the Revd Mr. John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

Stay thou eternal spirit stay

Page No:

pp.284-285

Poem Title:

Epitaph.

Attribution:

by the Revd Mr. John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley

First Line:

Saviour of all our thanks receive

Page No:

pp.285-288

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mrs. Anne Cowper.

Attribution:

by the Revd Mr. John and Charles Wesley

Attributed To:

John Wesley

Charles Wesley