The miscellaneous works (1739)

Rowe, Elizabeth Singer (1674-1737)

VOL. I.

On the present publication of Mrs. Rowe's Poems after her death.

POEMS ON Several Occasions.

The VISION.

The beginning of the fourth Book of Tasso's Jerusalem translated.

On the Creation.

Love and Friendship:

To the Author of the foregoing Pastoral.

In praise of Memory. Inscrib'd to the Honourable the Lady Worsely.

An imitation of a PASTORAL of Mrs. Killegrew's.

A description of the enchanted palace and garden of Armida; whither two knights from the Christian camp were come in search of Rinaldo.

The story of Erminia. Translated from the seventh Book of Tasso's Jerusalem.

Hymn V.

Hymn on the sacrament.

A Pastoral on the nativity of our Saviour.

Hymn on Heaven.

Come, my Beloved, let us go forth into the fields, let us lodge in the villages, Cant. vii. II.

HYMN.

A Dialogue between the Fallen Angels, and a Human Spirit just entred into the other world.

A description of HELL.

On HEAVEN.

SERAPHIC LOVE.

The translation of Elijah.

A DIALOGUE between the Soul, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure.

The xxxviiith chapter of Job translated.

HYMN.

Thoughts of a dying Christian.

HYMN.

The APPEAL.

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flocks to rest at noon, Cant. i. 7.

To Mr. Watts, on his POEMS sacred to Devotion.

On the death of the honourable Henry Thynne, Esq; only son of the right honourable Thomas, Lord Viscount Weymouth.

On LOVE.

REVELATION, Chap. XVI.

A PASTORAL.

To CHLOE.

The Conflagration.

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A Laplander's song to his mistress.

A Hymn of thanks.

The Hymn of the three eastern Magi, adoring our Saviour at his nativity.

A PASTORAL.

An ODE on Beauty.

On LOVE.

To Mrs. Arabella Marrow.

A PASTORAL.

On the death of Mr. Thomas Rowe.

On the anniversary return of the day on which Mr. Rowe died.

To PHILOMELA. Occasioned by her Poem on the death of her Husband.

To the Author of the foregoing Verses.

The RESIGNATION.

Translated from the Italian of Petrucci.

On the Divine Goodness.

Exodus III. xiv. I am that I am.

On the works of Creation.

On LOVE.

On the picture of King George I.

Part of the third Scene of the third Act of PASTOR FIDO, translated.

From the same. Act III. Scene I.

Part of the thirteenth book of Tasso's Jerusalem translated.

An Epistle from Alexias, a noble Roman, to his wife, whom he left on his wedding-day, with a design to visit the eastern churches.

To the right honourable the Earl of ---

On an unsuccessful attempt to draw the Lord Boyle's picture.

Lord Boyle's answer to the foregoing Verses.

To Mrs. ROWE.

On the death of the honourable Mrs. Thynne.

To Mrs. ROWE.

To the right honourable John Earl of Orrery.

A HYMN.

To Mr. THOMSON.

On the Divine Attributes.

On the name of JESUS.

To Mr. PRIOR.

A SONNET.

An Answer to an Italian Song.

The Description of the Drought.

CANT. II. viii, ix.

The PETITION.

Verses presented to her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia, at Marlborough, June the 18th, 1728.

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XVIII.

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Devout Soliloquies. In blank verse.

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XXXVII.

XXXVIII.

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A Paraphrase on CANTICLES.

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Hymn V.

[In vain the dusky night retires]

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In vain the dusky night retires,
And sullen shadows fly:
In vain the morn with purple light
Adorns the eastern sky.

II

In vain the gaudy rising sun
The wide horizon gilds,
Comes glitt'ring o'er the silver streams,
And chears the dewy fields.

III

In vain, dispensing vernal sweets
The morning breezes play;
In vain the birds with chearful songs
Salute the new-born day;

IV

In vain! unless my Saviour's face
These gloomy clouds controul,
And dissipate the sullen shades
That press my drooping soul.

V

O! visit then thy servant, Lord,
With favour from on high;
Arise, my bright, immortal sun!
And all these shades will die.

VI

When, when, shall I behold thy face
All radiant and serene,
Without these envious dusky clouds
That make a veil between?

VII

When shall that long-expected day
Of sacred vision be,
When my impatient soul shall make
A near approach to thee?

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