Miscellaneous pieces consisting of select poetry, methods of improvement in husbandry, gardening, and various other subjects useful to families [T125628] [ecco]

DMI number:

821

Publication Date:

1752

ESTC number:

T125628

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116766317

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

Miscellaneous Pieces. | CONSISTING OF | SELECT POETRY. | [?text illeg?] | [i]METHODS[/i] | OF | IMPROVEMENT | IN | Husbandry, Gardening, | AND | [i]Various other Subjects, useful to[/i] | FAMILIES | [ornament] | [rule] | Printed for [i]R. Goadby[/i], in [i]Sherborne[/i]; and sold by [i]W. Owen[/i], | Bookseller, at [i]Temple-Bar, London.[/i] | [short rule] | MDCCLII.

Place of Publication:

Sherborne

Genres:

Miscellaneous collection, Periodical miscellany, and Collection including prose

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Sold in 58 parts, each 8p. long plus an index 4p. long. Pagination and signatures are continuous.

Comments:

Date: 1752-4? Miscellany is sold in parts, and some of the later parts contain references to events taking place in 1754. Contents: early numbers mingle verse with useful instructions on gardening, husbandry etc, and other historical or geographical essays; from part 38, items of more recent news (both domestic and European) start to be included including prices of stocks.

Other matter:

End matter: Index, [4pp.]

References:

A. Anderdson, 'Gray's Elegy in Miscellaneous Pieces, 1752' Library (1965) s5-XX (2): 144-148. doi: 10.1093/library/s5-XX.2.144

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Comments:

Sold by:

William Owen

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Self exhaltation viewed in every light

Page No:

n. p.

Poem Title:

A Caution.

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First Line:

Deluded mortal turn and view my store

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pp.3-5

Poem Title:

A Dialogue between the Soul, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure.

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First Line:

As banished from the industrious hive

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pp.5-6

Poem Title:

The Drone and the Spider. A Fable. In Imitation of Mr. Gay.

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First Line:

It must be done my soul but 'tis a strange

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pp.6-7

Poem Title:

The Meditation.

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First Line:

In vain great God in vain I try

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pp.12-14

Poem Title:

The 139 Psalm paraphrased to the 14th Verse.

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First Line:

In other men we faults can spy

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pp.14-15

Poem Title:

The Turkey and the Ant. A Fable.

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First Line:

Farewell aspiring thoughts no more

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pp.15-16

Poem Title:

Contentment.

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Hail sacred art thou gift of heaven designed

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p.15

Poem Title:

On the Art of Printing.

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First Line:

By the blue taper's trembling light

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pp.20-22

Poem Title:

A Night-Piece on Death.

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First Line:

O wisdom queen of every art

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pp.22-24

Poem Title:

Ode to Wisdom

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By a Lady.

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God of my health whose tender care

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pp.25-27

Poem Title:

An Hymn. In Three Parts.

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First Line:

Consider man in every sphere

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pp.27-30

Poem Title:

The Cook-maid, the Turnspit, and the Ox. A Fable. To a Poor Man.

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First Line:

Ye works of god on him alone

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pp.36-40

Poem Title:

The Benedicte; or, The Song of the three Children paraphras'd.

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First Line:

Why Celia is your spreading waist

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pp.43-45

Poem Title:

The Poet and his Patron. A Fable.

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First Line:

Prepare the voice and tune the joyful lyre

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p.46

Poem Title:

Psalm CXLVI.

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First Line:

What's forming in the womb of fate

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pp.47-48

Poem Title:

The Advice.

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Vital spark of heavenly flame

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p.48

Poem Title:

The dying Christian to his Soul. An Ode.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

How weak how vain is human pride

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pp.49-52

Poem Title:

The Ravens, the Sexton, and the Earth-Worm. A Fable.

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Pronounce him blessed my muse whom wisdom guides

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pp.52-53

Poem Title:

True Wisdom.

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First Line:

Some mighty things these awful signs portend

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pp.61-64

Poem Title:

A Pastoral on the Nativity of our Saviour.

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First Line:

Conversing with your sprightly boys

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pp.65-68

Poem Title:

The Owl, the Swan, the Cock, the Spider, the Ass, and the Farmer. A Fable. To a Mother.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The glorious armies of the sky

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pp.68-69

Poem Title:

An Hymn.

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First Line:

Can we succeed by wishing tis a jest

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pp.73-74

Poem Title:

The Absurdity of Wishing.

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First Line:

Restrain your child you'll soon believe

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pp.74-75

Poem Title:

The old Hen and the Cock. A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Beauty complete and majesty divine

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pp.83-84

Poem Title:

On the Works of Creation.

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First Line:

Nature expects mankind should share

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pp.84-87

Poem Title:

The Man, the Cat, the Dog, and the Fly. A Fable.

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First Line:

O muse unfeigned o true celestial fire

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pp.90-95

Poem Title:

An Ode to the Creator of the World.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Father of all in every age

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pp.102-103

Poem Title:

The Universal Prayer.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Prepare my soul thy noblest lays

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pp.116-117

Poem Title:

A Song of Praise.

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First Line:

Lovely lasting peace of mind

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pp.124-126

Poem Title:

A Hymn to Contentment.

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First Line:

Thus ye good powers thus let me ever be

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pp.133-134

Poem Title:

Sitting in an Arbour.

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First Line:

A Grecian youth of talents rare

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pp.134-135

Poem Title:

The Youth and the Philosopher. A Fable.

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First Line:

That man must daily wiser grow

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pp.141-143

Poem Title:

The Bear in a Boat, A Fable.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

What am I how produced and for what end

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pp.147-150

Poem Title:

Know Your Self.

Attribution:

By the late Dr. Arbuthnot.

Attributed To:

John Arbuthnot

First Line:

Why are those tears why droops your head

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pp.157-158

Poem Title:

The Farmer's Wife and the Raven, A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

We frequently misplace esteem

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pp.166-168

Poem Title:

The Baboon and the Poultry. A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

All men like watches various periods share

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pp.175-176

Poem Title:

On a Watch.

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First Line:

Attend my soul the early birds inspire

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p.176

Poem Title:

A Thought at Waking

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First Line:

Come pretty birds fly to this verdant shade

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pp.177-178

Poem Title:

The sacred Concert of Praise.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Upon a time a neighing steed

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pp.178-180

Poem Title:

The Council of Horses. A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

What a strange moment will that be

Page No:

pp.190-191

Poem Title:

The Prospect.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Before the rosy dawn of day

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pp.191-192

Poem Title:

An Hymn.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The fatal period the great hour is come

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pp.193-195

Poem Title:

On the Last Day.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The wind was high the window shakes

Page No:

pp.196-197

Poem Title:

The Miser and Plutus. A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Accustom early in your youth

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p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

To miss a meal sometimes is good

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p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

When struck in years strong drink forbear

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p.199

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Let supper little be and light

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p.200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

Till hunger pinches never eat

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p.200

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

A fatal error tis in men of wealth

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p.201

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

So reader if thou art so wise

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p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

Thou didst O mighty God exist

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pp.204-205

Poem Title:

An Hymn.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Till now my soul this earthly load

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pp.205-206

Poem Title:

Reflections in Sickness.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A gardener of peculiar taste

Page No:

pp.215-216

Poem Title:

The Gardener and the Hog. A Fable.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Courage my soul now learn to wield

Page No:

pp.219-222

Poem Title:

A Dialogue between the Resolved Soul and the Pleasures of the World.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Great Alexander came to see my mansion being a tunne

Page No:

pp.233-236

Poem Title:

Diogenes's Account of Alexander the Great making a Visit to him. In old English Verse. Written near two hundred Years ago.

Attribution:

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He that performs not what he ought but doth the same neglect

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pp.236-239

Poem Title:

The Proverbs of Diogenes. In Old English Verse.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The sage awaked at early day

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pp.247-248

Poem Title:

The Philosopher and the Pheasants. A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Why Lycidas should man be vain

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p.248

Poem Title:

On the Vanity of Human Greatness.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Life recounting all its gains

Page No:

p.249

Poem Title:

Life.

Attribution:

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First Line:

To thee all glorious ever blessed power

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p.250

Poem Title:

A Midnight Hymn.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A northern pair we waive the name

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pp.251-253

Poem Title:

The Power of Innocence.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Love thou divinest good below

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pp.253-256

Poem Title:

The Lawyer and Justice. A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Celestial love my ever charming theme

Page No:

p.261

Poem Title:

On the Love of God to Mankind.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

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pp.262-264

Poem Title:

An Elegy. Written in a Country Church Yard.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A farmer once to London went

Page No:

pp.265-267

Poem Title:

The Farmer, A Tale.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Mortals in vain ye hope to find

Page No:

p.268

Poem Title:

On Truth.

Attribution:

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First Line:

God's vast existence never decays

Page No:

p.269

Poem Title:

On the Return of the New Year.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Soon as the morn salutes your eyes

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p.270

Poem Title:

Rules for Daily Practice.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Where through the meads fair Isis cuts her way

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pp.276-277

Poem Title:

The Young Moralist.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Great father of the skies whose boundless sway

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pp.278-279

Poem Title:

A Prayer of Cleanthes, an Hethen Philosopher.

Attribution:

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First Line:

From those blest regions where the sun displays

Page No:

pp.279-280

Poem Title:

The Hymn of the three Eastern Magi, adoring our Saviour at his Nativity.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A miser on a scurvy tit

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p.284

Poem Title:

The Mier and the Hog, A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The things that make a virgin please

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pp.285-286

Poem Title:

The Virgin.

Attribution:

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First Line:

What's life a rough and dangerous sea

Page No:

p.285

Poem Title:

On Life, Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell.

Attribution:

By a Youth of Seventeen.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Welcome thou presage of my certain doom

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p.286

Poem Title:

Verses wrote by Mrs. Hannah Wakeford, only Daughter of the Reverend Mr. Towgood, of Exeter, on Occasion of receiving a Mourning Ring some Months before her own Death, at the Funeral of Mrs. Hannah Wakeford, her Husband's Grandmother, and found after her Decease in her own Hand-writing.

Attribution:

by Mrs. Hannah Wakeford

Attributed To:

Hannah Wakeford

First Line:

My god I love and I adore

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pp.293-295

Poem Title:

Searching after God.

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First Line:

Children to your creator god

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pp.295-296

Poem Title:

Remember your Creator, &c. Eccles. xii.

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First Line:

With toilsome steps when I pursue

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p.305

Poem Title:

The Husbandman's Meditation in the Field.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I hate the man who builds his name

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pp.306-307

Poem Title:

The Poet and the Rose, A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

To thee my God I hourly sigh

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p.307

Poem Title:

An Hymn.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I come I come and joyfully obey

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p.325

Poem Title:

Thoughts of a dying Christian.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The prudent nymph whose cheeks disclose

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pp.326-327

Poem Title:

The Nightingale and Glow-worm, A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Not all that parent earth can give

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pp.327-328

Poem Title:

Seeking for Happiness.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Indulgent god whose bounteous care

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p.328

Poem Title:

An Evening Hymn.

Attribution:

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First Line:

If ye powers divine

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p.333

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

Eternal wisdom thee we praise

Page No:

pp.337-339

Poem Title:

A Song to Creating Wisdom. In Five Parts.

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These are thy glorious works parent of good

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pp.339-341

Poem Title:

A Morning Hymn.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Old Chiron to his pupil thus began

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pp.353-358

Poem Title:

A Letter to Achilles, a young Grecuan Prince, from his Tutor Chiron.

Attribution:

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Earth has detained me prisoner long

Page No:

pp.369-372

Poem Title:

The Song of Angels above.

Attribution:

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First Line:

As Cupid in Cythera's grove

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pp.372-373

Poem Title:

Cupid, Hymen, and Plutus. A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Dear Jesus when when shall it be

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pp.385-386

Poem Title:

A Hymn to Christ.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The lord my pasture shall prepare

Page No:

pp.386-387

Poem Title:

Psalm XXXIII. Paraphrased.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Let that arithmetician come

Page No:

pp.387-388

Poem Title:

On Eternity.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Twas god that turned the rolling spheres

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pp.388-389

Poem Title:

But the Thunder of his Power who can understand? Job. xxvi. 14.

Attribution:

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When wilt thou speak and tell me thou art mine

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pp.403-404

Poem Title:

Aspiring after God.

Attribution:

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Through all the various shifting scene

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pp.404-405

Poem Title:

Man's Dependence on his Creator.

Attribution:

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I hate the face however fair

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pp.405-408

Poem Title:

The Goose and the Swans: A Fable. To an Affected Lady.

Attribution:

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Arise my soul survey the morn

Page No:

p.417

Poem Title:

An Ode on the Morning.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Is it not strange that every creature

Page No:

p.418

Poem Title:

Against Drunkenness.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The man who with undaunted toils

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pp.419-420

Poem Title:

The Elephant and the Bookseller, A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Stay start not at that skeleton

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pp.433-435

Poem Title:

Upon the Sight of a Skeleton.

Attribution:

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Sweet muse descend and bless the shade

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pp.435-436

Poem Title:

Meditation in a Grove.

Attribution:

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First Line:

How fond are men of rule and place

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pp.439-440

Poem Title:

The Lion and the Cub. A Fable.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Atheists no more disown that god

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pp.449-451

Poem Title:

An Address to Atheists.

Attribution:

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First Line:

When faint and sinking to the shades of death

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pp.451-452

Poem Title:

The dying Christian's Hope.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hail ever pleasing solitude

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p.452

Poem Title:

Hymn on Solitude.

Attribution:

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