Sacred Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Works of the Most Admired ...

It is hoped that the following Collection will afford an ample illustration of the foregoing observations. It has been drawn from the works of the most admired poets in the language, and the Editor earnestly prays that the publication may tend to purify and elevate the thoughts of those into whose hands it may fall, and to produce a conviction that that which is morally, is also intellectually the best.

The Revelation. [From Montgomery's 'Pelican Island.'] 53

The Stranger's Tidings. [Mary Howitt.]

A Psalm of Praise. [Baxter.]

Resignation. [Rev. Hobart Caunter.]

A Hymn. [Kirke White.]

64

Terrestrial Fame. [Pollok.].

The Hour of Peace. [Gisborne.].

80

The Spirit's Ministerings. [Rev. H. Stebbing.]

On the Death of a Fair Infant. [Milton.].

82

85

From The Daughter of Jairus.' [Rev. T. Dale.]

Vicissitudes of Life. [From Caunter's Island Bride.'].

Vanity of Human Wishes. [Dr. Johnson.]

Rejuvenescence. [Rev. H. Stebbing.]
From the Revelation, Chap. xviii. [Edwin Atherstone.] 109

The Life of Man. [Mrs. Ann Gilbert.]

Extract from Klopstock's Messiah. [Roscoe.].

The Two Horsemen. [Rev. T. Greenwood.]

Adam and Eve's Morning Hymn. [Milton.]

The first six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm. [Burns.]

Temporals and Spirituals. [Bernard Barton.]

Warnings to Reflection. [Hawkesworth.].

Prayer. [Rev. R. Mant.]

To a Mother and her Child. [Rev. H. Caunter.]

The Grave. [Montgomery.].
A Christmas Legend. [Mary Howitt.]
Hymn. [Toplady.].

Hymn. [Noel.]

Sunday Morning. [Rev. R. Mant.]
Virtue and Pleasure. [Fordyce.]
The Captives' Song. [Henry Neile.].
Destruction of Sennacherib. [Byron.]
Divine Goodness. [Mrs. Barbauld.].
A Hymn to the Supreme Being. [Thomson.]
Song of the Three hildren. [Merrick.]
Elegiac Lines on Lady Seymour. [Mrs. Opie.]
Morning Discipline. [Vaughan.]

Grace. [Baxter.]

This do in remembrance of me.' [Montgomery.]
The Festal Morn. [Merrick.]
Wisdom. [Baxter.]
Hymn for Morning. [Parnell.]

Trust in the Saviour. [Grant.]

127

128

130

132

• 134
136

137

138

The Song of Zion. [Scott.]

The Saviour's Second Coming. [Milman.]

The Incarnation. [Milman.]

The Happy Spirit

Hymn. [Tate.]

Characters of the Disciples, from Klopstock. [Roscoe.].

The Christian Warrior. [Montgomery.]

Prayer. [Grant.]

Love to God. [Cowper.]

What doest thou here? [R. Skeen.]

Meditations in the Night. [Cowper.].

Maternal Tenderness. [Campbell.]

Children of Light. [Bernard Barton.]

215

A Dialogue between Death and the Believer. [Baxter.] 216
A Dirge. [Croly.].

221

A Funeral Hymn. [Milman.]

The Exit. [Baxter.]

Hymn to Providence. [Addison.]

The Valediction. [Baxter.].

Psalm LXXIV. [Helen Williams.]

Ode to Peace [Cowper.]

The Passion. [Milton.]

The Saviour to the Soul. [Bowdler.].

Hymn to the Saviour. [Logan.]

Tears. [Rev. Hobart Caunter.]

Winter. A Dirge. [Burns.]

Hymn. [Milman.] .

Song of Triumph. [Milman.]

Death and Eternity. [Hawkesworth.]

To Melancholy. [Mrs. Carter.]

To the Deity. [Dyer.]

On Eternity. [Gibbons.]

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. [Milton.

A Prayer in the Prospect of Death. [Burns.] .

Stanzas on the same Occasion. [Burns.]

Life. [Cowley.]

Hymn for Noon. [Parnell.}

Hymn for Evening. [Parnell.]

The Good Missionary. [Pringle.]

Christmas. [Herbert.]

Man. [Herbert.]

Conscience. [Herbert.]

Business. [Herbert.]

Providence. [Herbert.]

Christmas-Day. [Kirke White.]

On the Eve of a New Year. [Green.]

Farewell. [Rev. J. Lawson.]

The Sabbath. [Cunningham.]

Christ's Nativity. [Campbell.]

Missions. [Heber.].

Resignation. [Caroline Fry.]

Death's Conquest [Percy.]

Providence. [Pomfret.].

Franschehoek. [Pringle.]

The Storm. [Dodsley.].

Belshazzar. [Byron.]

On Recovering from Illness.

Hymn of Praise. [Pearsall.]

Praise to the Creator. [Mrs. Rowe.].

Threnodia. [Smedley.].

A Psalm of Praise to our Redeemer. [Baxter.]

Night. [Montgomery.].

The Star of Bethlehem. [Kirke White.]

Hymn. [Roscoe.]

Woman's Prayer. [Rev. Henry Stebbing.]

[Doddridge.]

The Clouds. [S. C. Hall.]

The Missionary. [William Howitt.]

Hymn. [Roscoe.]

The Quiet Mind. [John Clare.]

To Death. [Hagthorpe.]

[merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

To a Dying Infant. [Anonymous.]

The Barrel Organ. [Miss Roscoe.]

The Footstep's Fall. [W. Jerdan, Esq.]

Love's Immortality. [Southey.] .

Ode to Duty. [Wordsworth.]

Sonnet. [Wilson.]

Prayer of Jacob. [Logan.]

Fleetness of Time. [Bowles.]

Judgment. [C. Wesley.]

The Restoration of Israel. [Croly.]

Death. [Anonymous.]

Harmony. [Bowring.]

To the Soul. [Toplady.]

Invitation to the Feathered Race. [Graves.]

Man's Vanity and Life. [John Clare.]

Frailty. [Hood.]

Evening. [Rev. T. Wickenden.].

A Church-Yard Scene. [Professor Wilson.]

Spring. [Bishop Heber.]

Lines upon a Butterfly. [Rev. William Liddiard.]

Moralizing. [Delta.]

Love's Growth. [Rev. Henry Stebbing.].

Evening Prayer. [Rev. Thomas Dale.]

The Palmer's Morning Hymn. [Hogg.]

Charity. [Richard Gooch.]

•

The Covenanter's Scaffold Song. [Hogg.]

Instruction. [Cowper.]

342

Sonnet composed upon Westminster Bridge. [Wordsworth.] 343

Happiness. [Pope.]

Easter Day. [John Mason Good.]

Page 326

330

332

333

334

336

. 337

339

340

341

Ode, to a Sweet-Briar in India. [Rev. J. Lawson.]
Saul, the Persecutor. [Thomas Roscoe.]
Study from the Book of Job. [S. C. Hall.]
From the Book of Job, Chap. IV. [Scott.]
The same. [Dr. Mason Good.]

Music of Nature. [James Edmeston.]
Watch! [Dr. Mason Good.]
Christian Warfare. [Anonymous.]
The Victory in the Wilderness. [Milton.]
Sonnet. [Wordsworth.].