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CONTENTS
EARLY POEMS
Verses written at Bath
An attempt at the Manner of Waller.
To Delia, declaring that her love is all he needs for happiness
On her endeavouring to conceal her grief at parting.
The Lover's Heart in Absence
Written after leaving Her at New Burns
R. S. S.
Written in a Fit of Illness, R. S. S..
To Delia
To Delia, 1755
Absence and Bereavement
On Reading the "Prayer for Indifference
The Certainty of Death
Translation of Psalm cxxxvii.
Lines written under the Influence of Delirium
A Song of Mercy and Judgment
Die Ultimo, 1774
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III. Jehovah-Rophi. I am the Lord that healeth thee
IV. Jehovah-Nissi. The Lord my Banner
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XXII. Prayer for a Blessing on the Young
XXIII. Pleading for and with Youth
XXIV. Prayer for Children
XXV. Jehovah Jesus
XXVI. On Opening a Place for Social Prayer
XXVII. Welcome to the Table
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XXXVII. Afflictions Sanctified by the Word
XXXVIII. Temptation
XXXIX. Looking Upwards in a Storm
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OLNEY HYMNS-Continued
XLIV. Prayer for Patience
XLV. Submission
XLVI. The Happy Change
XLVII. Retirement
XLVIII. The Hidden Life
XLIX. Joy and Peace in Believing
L. True Pleasures
LI. The Christian
LII. Lively Hope and Gracious Fear
LIII. For the Poor
LXVII. I will Praise the Lord at all Times
Anti-Thelyphthora. A Tale in Verse
LIV. My Soul thirsteth for God.
LV. Love Constraining to Obedience
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LVI. The Heart healed and changed by Mercy
LVII. Hatred of Sin
LVIII. The New Convert
LIX. True and False Comforts
LX. A Living and a Dead Faith.
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Impromptu on Reading the Chapter on Polygamy in Mr.
Madan's Thelyphthora .
On a Review Condemning Thelyphthora
Mr. Madan's Answer to Mr. Newton's Comments on Thelyphthora
Love Abused
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← Verses, supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk
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On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq.
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On Observing some Names of Little Note recorded in the
Biographia Britannica
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On a Goldfinch Starved to Death in His Cage
The Pineapple and the Bee
Horace, Book II., Ode X .
A Reflection on the Foregoing Ode
Translations from Vincent Bourne-
I. The Glow-worm
II. The Jackdaw
III. The Cricket
IV. The Parrot.
The Shrubbery.
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The Poet, the Oyster and Sensitive Plant.
To the Rev. William Cawthorne Unwin
THE SECOND VOLUME
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THE SECOND VOLUME-Continued
An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq.
Tirocinium; or a Review of Schools .
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On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture out of Norfolk
The Dog and the Water-lily
An Address to the Mob on Occasion of the Late Riot at the
House of Sir Hugh Palliser
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The Bee and the Pineapple
In Seditionem Horrendam
A Card
Monumental Inscription to William Northcot
Riddle
To the Rev. Mr. Newton
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Epitaph on a Hare
431
On the Loss of the Royal George
432