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To my Cousin, Anne Bodham....
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104
Inscription for a Hermitage in the Author's Garden. 104
To Mrs. Unwin........
To John Johnson, on his presenting me with an an-
tique Bust of Homer.....................
105
To a young Friend....
106
On a Spaniel called Beau, killing a young bird
Beau's Reply..
107
To William Hayley, Esq.....
108
Answer to Stanzas addressed to Lady Hesketh, by
Miss Catharine Fanshawe...
On Flaxman's Penelope......
....... 109
To the Spanish Admiral, Count Gravina............ 109
Inscription for the tomb of Mr. Hamilton..... ..... 109
Epitaph on a Hare.............................................................. 110
Epitaphium Alterum....................
Account of the Author's Treatment of his Hares.... 112
A Tale
To Mary
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The Castaway..........
To Sir Joshua Reynolds..
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The Distressed Travellers; or, Labor in Vain...... 124
On the Author of "Letters on Literature"...
Stanzas on Liberties taken with the Remains of
Epitaph on Mrs. Higgins...
Sonnet to a Young Lady on her Birth-day..
.......... 132
On a Mistake in his Translation of Homer.......... 132
On the Benefit received by his Majesty from Sea-
From a letter to the Rev. Mr. Newton.............. 137
The Flatting Mill.
Epitaph on a free but tame Redbreast.............. 139
Sonnet addressed to W. Hayley, Esq...
An Epitaph....
On receiving Hayley's Picture..........
On a Plant of Virgin's Bower........
On receiving Heyne's Virgil..
Stanzas by a Lady...
......... 138
Inscription for a Moss-house in the Shrubbery at
Weston...
146
Lines on the Death of Sir William Russel..........
On the high price of Fish..................
147
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To Mrs. Newton...
Verses printed by himself on a flood at Olney
Extract from a Sunday-school Hymn...
On the receipt of a Hamper (in the manner of Homer) 150
On the neglect of Homer...
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OLNEY HYMNS.
150
Preliminary Remarks on the Olney Hymns........
Hymn 1. Walking with God.......
151
II. Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord will provide... 166
III. Jehovah-Rophi. I am the Lord that heal-
eth thee......
167
IV. Jehovah-Nissi. The Lord my Banner.... 168
v. Jehovah-Shalom. The Lord send peace.. 169
VI. Wisdom ....
VII. Vanity of the World....
VIII. O Lord, I will praise thee.....
171
IX. The contrite Heart........
172
x. The future Peace and Glory of the Church 173
XI. Jehovah our Righteousness..
XXII. Praying for a Blessing on the Young.....
..... 187
XXV. Jehovah-Jesus...........
XXVI. On opening a Place for social Prayer...... 187
xxx. The Light and Glory of the Word........ 191
XXXI. On the Death of a Minister............... 191
XXXII. The shining Light....
196
XXXVI. Afflictions sanctified by the Word........ 195
XXXVII. Temptation
XXXVIII. Looking upwards in a Storm............. 197
XXXIX. The Valley of the Shadow of Death....... 198
XL. Peace after a Storm....
XLI. Mourning and Longing
XLII. Self-Acquaintance
XLIII. Prayer for Patience
XLIV. Submission
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199
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LI. Lively Hope and Gracious Fear.......... 208
LII. For the Poor..........
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214
LIII. My Soul thirsteth for God................ 210
LIV. Love constraineth to Obedience.......... 211
LV. The Heart healed and changed by Mercy.. 212
LVI. Hatred of Sin.........
LVII. The new Convert...
LVIII. True and false Comforts.
LIX. A living and a dead Faith.
LX. Abuse of the Gospel........
LXI. The narrow Way........
LXII. Dependence........
LXIII. Not of Works...................
LXIV. Praise for Faith..........
LXV. Grace and Providence.
........ 215
LXVI. I will praise the Lord at all times...
Brief Account of Madame Guion, and of the Mystic
Writers
The Nativity..
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224
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God neither known nor loved by the World........ 250
The Swallow.........
The Triumph of Heavenly Love desired................. 253
A figurative Description of the Procedure of Divine
Love.......
A Child of God longing to see him beloved.
Aspirations of the Soul after God....
Gratitude and Love to God....
Happy Solitude-Unhappy Men.....
Living Water........................
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258
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260
Truth and Divine Love rejected by the World...... 261
Divine Justice amiable....
262
The Soul that loves God finds him everywhere..... 263
Self-Love and Truth incompatible.........
The Love of God, the End of Life...
Love faithful in the absence of the Beloved..
266
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269
The Secrets of Divine Love are to be kept....
The Vicissitudes experienced in the Christian Life.. 280
Watching unto God in the Night Season...........
II. On the Death of the University Beadle at
Cambridge
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299
302
III. On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester. 303
IV. To his Tutor, Thomas Young...
V. On the Approach of Spring..
VI. To Charles Deodati
VII.
Epigrams. On the Inventor of Guns
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305
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To Leonora singing at Rome .......
To the same.........
The Cottager and his Landlord. A Fable......... 321
To Christina, Queen of Sweden, with Cromwell's
Picture
322
On the death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician... 322
On the Death of the Bishop of Ely.. ................. 324
Nature unimpaired by Time.......................
On the Platonic Idea as it was understood by Aris-
totle.......
To his Father
326
To Salsillus, a Roman poet, much indisposed...... 334
To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa...... 335
On the Death of Damon..
339
An Ode, addressed to Mr. John Rouse, Librarian of
the University of Oxford....
Sonnet-"Fair Lady, whose harmonious name".... 352
Sonnet-"As on a hill-top rude, when closing day" 353
Canzone-"They mock my toil”...................
Sonnet-To Charles Deodati.....
349
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354
Sonnet-"Lady! it cannot be but that thine eyes".. 354
Sonnet-"Enamor'd, artless, young, on foreign
ground"
355
Simile in Paradise Lost........................... 355
Translation of Dryden's Epigram on Milton................ 356