Poems on moral and divine subjects by several celebrated English poets [T121853]

DMI number:

808

Publication Date:

1751

ESTC number:

T121853

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW121935737

Shelfmark:

BL 1609/1346

Full Title:

POEMS | ON | MORAL AND DIVINE | SUBJECTS , | BY SEVERAL CELEBRATED | ENGLISH POETS, | [i]VIZ.[/i] | [three columns] [col. 1]SPENSER, | BEN JOHNSON, | DRUMMOND, | WALLER, | MILTON, | COWLEY, | OLDHAM,[/col. 1] [col. 2]DRYDEN, | ROSCOMMON, | PRIOR, | ROWE, | ADDISON, | LANSDOWN, | PARNEL, [/col. 2] [col. 3] TICKELL, | POPE, | MALLET, | THOMSON, | LYTTLETON, | WEST, | GREY, etc.[/col3] | [epigraph] | GLASGOW, | PRINTED BY ROBERT & ANDREW FOULIS | M. DCC. LI.

Epigraph:

Sweet contemplation elevates my sense, | While I survey the works of Providence. | O could the muse in loftier strains rehearse, | The glorious Author of the universe, | Who reins the wind, gives the vast ocean bounds, | And circumscribes the floating worlds their rounds, | My soul should overflow in songs of praise, | And my Creator's name inspire my lays! GAY.

Place of Publication:

Glasgow

Genres:

Collection of religious verse

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Half title: POEMS | ON | MORAL AND DIVINE | SUBJECTS. Separate title page: Of Divine Love, p. 133. FORMAT: Octavo in fours. COPY SPECIFIC: Bookplates of Hon. Hugh Lindsay and Rev. H. C. Beeching (1897). MS annotation on half-title ('For Mrs Duff Janry 1775.') and title-page ('William Dalrymple | Ayr | 1760').

Comments:

Attributions: poem attributions are given in the contents list at the back of the volume. Contents: prose pp. 339-345. PAGINATION: [2], [1]-391, [1] (pp.209-216 and p.382 are mispaginated 109-116 and 338 respectively. Pagination omits pp.27-29; text is continuous).

Other matter:

Back matter: Contents (with poem attributions) pp. 389-391.

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Content/Publication

First Line:

By the blue taper's trembling light

Page No:

pp.1-4

Poem Title:

A Night-Piece on Death.

Attribution:

Parnel.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

Lovely lasting peace of mind

Page No:

pp.5-8

Poem Title:

A Hymn to Contentment.

Attribution:

Parnel.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

Hail mildly pleasing solitude

Page No:

pp.9-10

Poem Title:

A Hymn on Solitude.

Attribution:

Thompson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Now early shepherds over the meadow pass

Page No:

pp.11-14

Poem Title:

Health, An Eclogue.

Attribution:

Parnel.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

Twas when the night in silent sable fled

Page No:

pp.15-19

Poem Title:

Piety, or the Vision

Attribution:

Parnel.

Attributed To:

Thomas Parnell

First Line:

Love lift me up upon thy golden wings

Page No:

pp.20-32

Poem Title:

An Hymn of Heavenly Love.

Attribution:

Spenser.

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Rapt with the rage of mine own ravished thought

Page No:

pp.33-44

Poem Title:

An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty.

Attribution:

Spenser.

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

These are thy glorious works parent of good

Page No:

pp.44-46

Poem Title:

Adam and Eve's Morning Hymn.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

One day whiles that my daily cares did sleep

Page No:

pp.48-54

Poem Title:

Visions of the World's Vanity.

Attribution:

Spenser.

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Being one day at my window all alone

Page No:

pp.55-58

Poem Title:

The Visions of Petrarch.

Attribution:

Spenser.

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Ye choral hymns harmonious lays

Page No:

pp.59-68

Poem Title:

The Second Olympic Ode of Pindar.

Attribution:

West.

Attributed To:

Gilbert West

First Line:

Whatever man he be whose heavy mind

Page No:

pp.69-90

Poem Title:

Daphnaida. An Elegy.

Attribution:

Spenser.

Attributed To:

Edmund Spenser

First Line:

Why art thou thus with grief oppressed

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

An Hymn in Affliction.

Attribution:

Needler.

Attributed To:

Henry Needler

First Line:

Heavy O Lord on me thy judgments lie

Page No:

pp.93-94

Poem Title:

Considerations on the LXXXVIII Psalm.

Attribution:

Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Creator spirit by whose aid

Page No:

pp.95-96

Poem Title:

Veni Creator Spiritus, Translated in Paraphrase.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Now let the fatal banner be displayed

Page No:

pp.97-103

Poem Title:

The Curse of Babylon. Paraphras'd from the Thirteenth Chapter of Isaia. A Pindaric Ode.

Attribution:

Yealdan.

Attributed To:

Thomas Yalden

First Line:

From harmony from heavenly harmony

Page No:

pp.104-106

Poem Title:

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, MDCLXXXVII.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Enough enough my soul of worldly noise

Page No:

pp.107-108

Poem Title:

Meditation on Death.

Attribution:

Lansdown.

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Why Granville is thy life to shades confined

Page No:

pp.109-110

Poem Title:

Verses Sent to The Right Honourable George Granville, Afterwards Lord Lansdown.

Attribution:

Written by Mrs. Elizabeth Higgons.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Higgons

First Line:

Cease tempting siren cease thy flattering strain

Page No:

pp.111-114

Poem Title:

Occasioned By The Foregoing Verses Written In The Year MDCXC.

Attribution:

Lansdown.

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

O under various sacred names adored

Page No:

pp.115-117

Poem Title:

The Hymn of Cleanthes.

Attribution:

West.

Attributed To:

Gilbert West

First Line:

This is the month and this the happy morn

Page No:

pp.118-127

Poem Title:

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Ye flaming powers and winged warriors bright

Page No:

pp.128-129

Poem Title:

Upon the Circumcision.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Ere while of music and ethereal mirth

Page No:

pp.129-131

Poem Title:

The Passion.

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Blest pair of sirens pledges of heavens joy

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

At a Solemn Music.

Attribution:

Milton

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

The Grecian muse has all their gods survived

Page No:

pp.133-146

Poem Title:

Of Divine Love.

Attribution:

Waller.

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

The fear of god is freedom joy and peace

Page No:

pp.147-152

Poem Title:

Of the Fear of God. In Two Cantoes.

Attribution:

Waller.

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

His sacred name with reverence profound

Page No:

pp.153-155

Poem Title:

Some reflections Upon The Several Petitions In The Lord's Prayer.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

When we for age could neither read nor write

Page No:

p.156

Poem Title:

On the Foregoing Divine Poems.

Attribution:

Waller.

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

Arise my muse awake thy sleeping lyre

Page No:

pp.157-160

Poem Title:

A Vernal Hymn In Praise Of The Creator.

Attribution:

Needler.

Attributed To:

Henry Needler

First Line:

Great sovereign of the world thy glorious name

Page No:

p.161

Poem Title:

Psalm XCII. Paraphras'd.

Attribution:

Needler.

Attributed To:

Henry Needler

First Line:

In pious hymns and consecrated lays

Page No:

pp.163-164

Poem Title:

Psalm CXLVI.

Attribution:

Needler.

Attributed To:

Henry Needler

First Line:

The lord my pasture shall prepare

Page No:

pp.165-166

Poem Title:

Psalm XXIII. Paraphrased.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

The spacious firmament on high

Page No:

pp.166-167

Poem Title:

Psalm XIX. Paraphrased.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

When all thy mercies O my God

Page No:

pp.167-169

Poem Title:

A Hymn of Gratitude.

Attribution:

Addison.

Attributed To:

Joseph Addison

First Line:

Ye nymphs of Solyma begin the song

Page No:

pp.170-174

Poem Title:

Messiah: A Sacred Eclogue, Compos'd Of Several Passages of Isaiah The Prophet. Written In Imitation of Virgil's Pollio.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Enough my muse of earthly things

Page No:

pp.175-178

Poem Title:

Christ's Passion, Taken Out Of A Greek Ode, Written By Mr. Masters of New-College in Oxford.

Attribution:

Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Awake and with attention hear

Page No:

pp.178-182

Poem Title:

Isaiah. XXXIV.

Attribution:

Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

I leave mortality and things below

Page No:

pp.183-186

Poem Title:

The Ecstasie.

Attribution:

Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Hail old patrician trees so great and good

Page No:

pp.187-190

Poem Title:

Of Solitude.

Attribution:

Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Upon the slippery tops of human state

Page No:

pp.190-191

Poem Title:

Of Obscurity.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh happy if his happiness he knows

Page No:

pp.192-196

Poem Title:

Of a Country-Life. A Translation.

Attribution:

Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Freedom with virtue takes her seat

Page No:

pp.197-202

Poem Title:

Ode upon Liberty.

Attribution:

Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Hail sacred solitude from this calm bay

Page No:

pp.203-205

Poem Title:

Ode upon Solitude.

Attribution:

Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

O azure vaults o crystal sky

Page No:

pp.205-209

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on the CXLVIII Psalm.

Attribution:

Roscommon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

The day of wrath that dreadful day

Page No:

pp.110-113 [i.e. 210-213]

Poem Title:

On the Last Judgment.

Attribution:

Roscommon.

Attributed To:

Wentworth Dillon

First Line:

As in a shipwreck some poor sailor tossed

Page No:

pp.113 [i.e. 213]-217

Poem Title:

On the Happiness of a Retired Life.

Attribution:

Charles Dryden.

Attributed To:

Charles Dryden

First Line:

Begin my lyre the great creator's praise

Page No:

pp.217-224

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase on Psalm CIV.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When gamesome youth and love's unruly fire

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

A Midnight Thought.

Attribution:

Dryden's Miscellany.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Attend my soul the early birds inspire

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

Occasion'd by the Early Singing of a Lark.

Attribution:

Dryden's Miscellany.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Give me a soul so great so high

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

True Greatness.

Attribution:

Dryden's Miscellany.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O death what power is thine that distant thus

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

A Thought on Death.

Attribution:

Dryden's Miscellany.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I bless my god for every sense

Page No:

pp.229-230

Poem Title:

A Hymn on Sight.

Attribution:

Dryden's Miscellany.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

These as they change almighty father these

Page No:

pp.231-235

Poem Title:

A Hymn on the Seasons.

Attribution:

Thompson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

Father of light and life thou good supreme

Page No:

p.236

Poem Title:

A Prayer.

Attribution:

Thompson.

Attributed To:

James Thomson

First Line:

O holy blessed glorious trinity

Page No:

pp.236-238

Poem Title:

The Sinner's Sacrifice. To The Holy Trinity.

Attribution:

Ben Johnson.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Hear me o god

Page No:

pp.238-240

Poem Title:

A Hymn to God the Father.

Attribution:

Ben Johnson.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

I sing the birth was born tonight

Page No:

pp.240-241

Poem Title:

A Hymn on the Nativity of Our Saviour.

Attribution:

Ben Johnson.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Good and great god can I not think of thee

Page No:

p.241

Poem Title:

Ode To Heaven.

Attribution:

Ben Johnson.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

First to the gods thy humble homage pay

Page No:

pp.243-250

Poem Title:

The Golden Verse of Pythagoras. Translated from the Greek.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Father of all in every age

Page No:

pp.251-253

Poem Title:

The Universal Prayer.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

If dumb too long the drooping muse hath stayed

Page No:

pp.254-258

Poem Title:

To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison.

Attribution:

Tickell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Of Leinster famed for maidens fair

Page No:

pp.259-262

Poem Title:

Colin and Lucy.

Attribution:

Tickell.

Attributed To:

Thomas Tickell

First Line:

Twas at the silent solemn hour

Page No:

pp.262-265

Poem Title:

William and Margaret.

Attribution:

Mallet.

Attributed To:

David Mallet

First Line:

This way the noise was if mine ear be true

Page No:

pp.266-275

Poem Title:

The Soliloquy Of A Lady Benighted In A Wood And Having Lost Her Brothers.

Attribution:

Milton.

Attributed To:

John Milton

First Line:

Out from the horror of infernal deeps

Page No:

pp.276-315

Poem Title:

The Complaint of Rosamond.

Attribution:

Daniel.

Attributed To:

Samuel Daniel

First Line:

I feel my bosom glow with wontless fires

Page No:

pp.316-331

Poem Title:

An Hymn on the Fairest Fair.

Attribution:

Drummond.

Attributed To:

William Drummond

First Line:

To thee o god we thy just praises sing

Page No:

pp.332-338

Poem Title:

Paraphrase Upon The Hymn Of St. Ambrose. Ode.

Attribution:

Oldham.

Attributed To:

John Oldham

First Line:

My prayers are heard a glorious light now shone

Page No:

pp.345-346

Poem Title:

A Sunday-Thought In Sickness.

Attribution:

Oldham.

Attributed To:

John Oldham

First Line:

Ah silly soul what wilt thou say

Page No:

pp.347-349

Poem Title:

A Translation.

Attribution:

Drummond.

Attributed To:

William Drummond

First Line:

If in the east when you do there behold

Page No:

pp.349-352

Poem Title:

On The Suffering Of Our Saviour.

Attribution:

Drummond.

Attributed To:

William Drummond

First Line:

Rise from those fragrant climes thee now embrace

Page No:

pp.352-358

Poem Title:

On The Resurrection Of Our Saviour.

Attribution:

Drummond.

Attributed To:

William Drummond

First Line:

Before by death you never knowledge gain

Page No:

pp.358-372

Poem Title:

The Philosopher's Disquisition Directed To The Dying Christian.

Attribution:

Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The good in graves as heavenly seed are sown

Page No:

pp.372-374

Poem Title:

The Christian's Reply To The Philosopher.

Attribution:

Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Vital spark of heavenly flame

Page No:

pp.374-375

Poem Title:

The Dying Christian To His Soul. Ode.

Attribution:

Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

When rising from the bed of death

Page No:

pp.375-376

Poem Title:

Hymn.

Attribution:

Spectator.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though sable woe overcase the mournful soul

Page No:

pp.377-381

Poem Title:

Verses Sacred To The Memory Of The Honourable Alexander Stuart Master of Gairlies: Inscribed to the Right Honourable Lord Boyle.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

Page No:

pp.338[i.e. 382]-387

Poem Title:

An Elegy Wrote In A Country Church-Yard.

Attribution:

Grey.

Attributed To:

Thomas Gray

First Line:

Made to engage all hearts and charm all eyes

Page No:

p.388

Poem Title:

Verses, Making Part Of An Epitaph On Mrs. Lyttleton.

Attribution:

Lyttleton.

Attributed To:

George Lyttelton