fully noted in the table of contents, that the reader may have the means of referring the pleasure, derived from such pieces as are not thus distinguished, to the poetical taste and moral feeling of the original compiler. It is hoped that the lovers of sacred poetry-poetry that has caught its spirit from
may find in this little manual much to "make the Sabbath a delight," and to kindle and keep burning within them the love of God, and a desire of a better knowledge of his works, as well as of those words which, at sundry times and in divers manners, he spake unto the fathers of Israel by his prophets, and of those which, in later times, he hath spoken unto us by his Son.
THE pieces marked with an asterisk* in the table of contents have
never before been published in England.
The pieces marked thus fare from American authors.
The pieces marked thus ! are added by the American Editor.
Page.
John Taylor. 17
Pierpont. 18
Bryant. 19
H. W. Rockwell.
20
Pierpont. 22
W. Scott.
M. A Browne.
23
25
The Clouds,
God is Love,
Anonymous. 27
J. G. Whittier.
The Poor Debtor,
27
Lines on passing the Grave of my Sister, Flint. 30
The Dying Boy,
Anonymous. 32
Drummond. 34
Mrs. Hemans. 35
Montgomery. 37
J. Taylor. 40
Dr. Leyden. 41
Imperishable Wealth, .
Sonnet on Sunday Morning,
The Lily, an emblem of Christian Hope, Mrs. Tighe. 41
The Flying Fish, an emblem of Christian
December,
The World and the Gospel,
Paternal Care of the Deity,
Sonnet on the author's Blindness,
The Christian in the prospect of Death,
Blessed be thy name for ever,
The Heavenly Minstrel,
Comfort under Affliction,
The Heavenly Rest,
Solitude,
Reply,
The fall of the Leaf, from the Russian of
Milonov,
Religion,
•
"He shall fly away as a dream,"
The Harp of Judah,
"We wept when we remembered Zion,"
Sunday Morning,
Sunday Evening,
+God our Father, .
Providence,
Death of a Believer,
The World we have not seen,
The Better Land,
The Grave to the Believer a place of Rest,
†The Old Man's Funeral, .
Midnight Meditation,
Sunday Evening,
The Evening Cloud,
†The Star of Bethlehem, .
The Young Herdsman,
The Parting Spirit,
The silent Expression of Nature,
Life and Death,
Song of Saul before his last Battle,
Destruction of Sennacherib,
The Haven, Russian Poetry, translated
by
Grave of a Christian,
The Hermit,.
The Millennium,
Hymn to the Stars,
Hymn from Psalm cxlviii.,
Address to the Stars,
Destruction of Jerusalem, .
+Song of the Stars,
"That ye through his poverty might be
rich,"
Jesus teaching the People,
On the Death of a Christian Friend,
Lines addressed to a Ring-Dove,
"Thou hast made Summer and
ter,"
The Setting Sun,
"Thy Will be done,"
*God is good," .
†The Garden of Gethsemane,
The Jubilee-Levit. xxv. 8-13,
*All things to be changed,
tt" They went out into the Mount of
Olives,"
†The Death of the Flowers,
Epitaph of Aileen Artore,
Win-
H. M. Williams. 169
S. Wesley. 170
Grahame. 171
Edmeston. 172
Heber. 173
T. Campbell. 174
Gisborn. 176
Mason. 177
Dryden. 178
Anonymous. 180
C. Edwards. 182
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