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On visiting Melrose after an Absence of 16 Years 103
The Poor Man's Funeral..........
104
The Thanksgiving off Cape Trafalgar................... 105
To my Son.................................................... 106
Notes to the Sabbath............................................ 108
BLAIR................
133
Memoir of Robert Blair......................................
ib.
The Grave....................
................................ 141
SPECIMENS OF SACRED AND SERIOUS POETRY, FROM
CHAUCER TO THE PRESENT DAY................
167
Preliminary Observations..................................... 169
CHAUCER.............................................
175
The Prioress's Tale........................................... 176
The Character of a Good Parson......................... 184
Robert HENRYSON............................................ 188
The Abbey Walk............................................ ib.
LORD VAUX.......................................................... 190
Upon his White Hairs..................................... ib.
The Aged Lover renounceth Love...................... 191
ROBERT GREEN....................
193
The Penitent Palmer's Ode......
194
ROBERT SOUTHWELL....
195
Scorn not the Least....................................... ib.
Times go by Turns......................................... 196
Upon the Image of Death............................... 197
SpenseR................................................................. 199
Hymn to the Saviour..................................... 200
Una followed by the Lion.............................. 204
From the Ruins of Time............................... 207
The Ministry of Angels..........
209
ALEXANDER HUME...............
..................... 210
Thanks for a Summer's Day............
SHAKSPEARE .................
216
Dirge (in Cymbeline)....
................... ib.
Sonnet.............
............................ 217
Portia's Speech on Mercy........................ ......... 218
........... ib.
........... 226
Page SIR WALTER RALEIGH............................................ 218
The Soul's Errand.......................................... 219
JOSHUA SYLVESTER........
222
Stanzas from “ All is not Gold that glitters"... ib.
Thomas LODGE............
.................................. 223
Retirement....
224
SIMON WASTELL......
.................. 225
On Man's Mortality...
GILES FLETCHER...............
Mercy in Heaven pleading for the Guilty............ ib.
Justice addressing the Creator......................... 228
Mercy brightening the Rainbow...................... ib.
Christ's Triumph after Death.......................... 230
Phineas FLETCHER.................
233
Happiness of the Shepherd's Life......................... ib.
Hymn.......
235
MICHAEL DRAYTON....
Moses meeting the Daughters of Jethro, Priest of
Midian.
................. 236
JOHN Donne......................
..................... 240
La Corona...................
.......................... ib.
Hymn to God, my God....................................... 241
SIR HENRY WOTTON................................................. 242
A Meditation.........................
................... 243
Farewell to the Vanities of the World................... ib.
BEN JONSON...........
.......................................... 245
On my First Daughter.............
.................... 246
Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H....
To Heaven.......
247
To the Holy Trinity ............
FRANCIS QUARLES.................... ............................. 249
Emblem First............. ................................ 250
Whom have I in Heaven but Thee...................... 251
GEORGE HERBERT.............................................. 252
Virtue.......................................................... 256
Life........................................................... 257
.... 261
Sunday....
258
The Quip............
259
Mary Magdalen.
260
George SANDYS.....
Extract from an Address • Deo Opt. Max.”......... ib.
HENRY KING................................................................. 263
Sic Vita....................................................... ib.
The Dirge................................................... ib.
SIR John Davis................
265
Reasons for the Soul's Immortality..
DRUMMOND.......
266
Flowers of Zion,
John the Baptist...............
................... 268
Apples of Sodom...........................................
269 Retirement............................................... ib.
CRASHAW ......................................................................
270
The Circumcision.....
........................... ib.
* Two went up into the Temple............................. 271
Easter Day...........
................ ib.
Chorus of the Shepherds of Bethlehein............... 272
Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, who died and
were buried together...................................... 273
Epitaph on Mr Ashton............
274
Hymn of the Blessed Sacrament..................... 275
Hymn in Meditation of the Day of Judgment...... 276
To the Infant Martyrs................
278
Upon the Infant Martyrs.................................... ib.
Sospetto d’Herode............................................ ib.
Isaac WALTON.................
................... 281
The Angler's Wish......
282
ROBERT HERRICK.........
283
To Blossoms....
284
To Daffodils...
MILTON........
285
On the Massacre of the Protestants in Piedmont... 288
Sonnet to a Lady..
289
The Nativity......................................................"
Upon the Circumcision......
291
On the Memory of Mrs Catharine Thomson......... 292
Milton's Sonnet on his own Blindness...........
Samson bewailing his Blindness......
293
HENRY VAUGHAN...........................................................
294
Early Rising and Prayer................................... ib.
The Rainbow.........................................................
295
Timber..............................
.............................. 296
The Wreath to the Redeemer............................ ib.
Sone-Days......
297
ABRAHAM COWLEY.......
298
The Scriptures....
299
On the Death of the Poet Crashaw...................... 300
Characters of Merab and Michal........................ 301
ANDREW MARVEL.................................................... 303
The Emigrants................................................. 305
The Fawn................................................................
306
DRYDEN .........
........................................ 307
Veni Creator............... .................................... ib.
Ode to the Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew ......... 308
SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE..........
310
Hail, King Supreme ................
ADDISON...............................
.......................................... 313
An Ode...............................................................
ISAAC WATTS.......
315
A Summer Evening....................................... 316
The Rose.....................
317
The Hebrew Bard.............
THOMAS PARNELL......
319
A Night-piece on Death.....
320
A Hymn to Contentment....
322
EDWARD YOUNG..
325
The Man whose Thoughts are not of this World... 326
Procrastination.........
..................... 328
On Life, Death, and Immortality.
......................... 330
Folly of Human Pursuits...............
.................. 333
Resignation ....................................................
............. 354
ALEXANDER POPE...........................................................
334
The Messiah...............
335
The Dying Christian......
338
Epitaph on Mrs Corbet.....
339
JAMES THOMSON............
340
From Winter..........
................... 342
PHILIP DODDRIDGE..................
............... 344
The Sabbath.................................................... ib.
JOHN WESLEY
345
There remains a Rest for the People of God....... ib.
Samuel JOHNSON................... ............................... 346
Verses to the Memory of Robert Levet.............. ib.
Vanity of Human Wishes.......................
348
THOMAS GRAY......
349
Elegy written in a Country Church-yard.......... ib.
JAMES MERRICK..........
The Nunc Dimittis..........
........................... 355
WILLIAM COLLINS........................
.................... 356
Ode to Evening...............
357
Verses on Thomson's Grave............................... 359
Dirge in Cymbeline..........
...................................... 361
John NEWTON..........................................................
362
The Lord's Day..............
363
OLIVER GOLDSMITH...
Character of a Village Preacher.
364
William CowPER.................
366
Lines written on receiving his Mother's Picture... 376
Character of Whitfield..................
380
Voltaire and the Lace-worker............................... 381
Verses to Mrs Mary Unwin...........
382
The Poplar Field................................................
384
The Happy Man............................................... 385
Trust in God..................................................... 386
Retirement................................................................ 387
Providence....
388
RICHARD CUMBERLAND............
389
From “ Calvary”.
............ ib.