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CONTENTS.
GRAHAME.........
Memoir of James Grahame................................... ib.
Remarks on his Writings........................
The Sabbath......
Page
3
36
47
The finding of Moses.....
Jacob and Pharaoh....
Jephthah's Vow......
Saul and David........
Elijah fed by Ravens............
The Birth of Jesus announced....................
90
ib.
Behold my Mother and my Brethren... 95
Bartimeus restored to Sight............
Little Children brought to Jesus....
Jesus calms the Tempest.....
Jesus walks on the Sea, and calms the Storm...... 97
The Dumb cured...........
The Death of Jesus....
The Resurrection.......
Jesus appears to the Disciples...
..... 100
Paul accused before the Tribunal of the Areopagus ib.
Paul accused before the Roman Governor of Judea 101
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..
The Grave......
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
188
ROBERT HENRYSON....
The Abbey Walk..
Hymn to the Saviour...........
Una followed by the Lion.....
From the Ruins of Time...
LORD VAUX.......
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..
Times go by Turns.......
196
Upon the Image of Death................................................................... 197
SPENSER.....
199
The Ministry of Angels.....
141
... ib.
190
200
204
207
209
ALEXANDER HUME...........
.... 210
Thanks for a Summer's Day.............................................................................. ib.
SHAKSPEARE.......
216
Dirge (in Cymbeline).......................................................................... ib.
Sonnet.......
217
Portia's Speech on Mercy....
218
SIR WALTER RALEIGH..
The Soul's Errand............................................. 219
JOSHUA SYLVESTER..........
222
Stanzas from "All is not Gold that glitters"....
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.........
BEN JONSON.......
235
....... ib.
236
240
.... 241
242
243
Farewell to the Vanities of the World... ib.
On my First Daughter..........
... 245
246
.... 247
Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H........
To Heaven...
To the Holy Trinity............................ ib.
FRANCIS QUARLES............................................................................ 249
Emblem First..
250
Whom have I in Heaven but Thee..................... 251
GEORGE HERBERT........
Virtue..........
Life.......
252
256
257
Extract from an Address" Deo Opt. Max.".
...... ib.
SIR JOHN DAVIS...
Reasons for the Soul's Immortality.
DRUMMOND.........
265
266
Flowers of Zion....
John the Baptist..
268
Apples of Sodom..
Retirement............
CRASHAW.......
The Circumcision.............
Two went up into the Temple............. 271
Easter Day.........
Chorus of the Shepherds of Bethlehem............... 272
Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, who died and
were buried together......
Epitaph on Mr Ashton.......
Hymn of the Blessed Sacrament...........
273
274
275
Hymn in Meditation of the Day of Judgment...... 276
To the Infant Martyrs.....
269
270
Upon the Infant Martyrs.
Sospetto d'Herode......
ISAAC WALTON............
The Angler's Wish....
ROBERT HERRICK.....
To Blossoms...
To Daffodils...
278
... 281
282
283
284
..... 285
MILTON............
On the Massacre of the Protestants in Piedmont... 288
Sonnet to a Lady...
The Nativity......
289