University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The poems and verse-translations of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

For the first time collected and edited after the author's own text: With introduction. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart [in Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library]
Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)

collapse sectionII. 
II. Festival Hymns.
collapse section 
HYMNS CELEBRATING THE MYSTERIES AND CHIEF FESTIVALS OF THE YEAR, ACCORDING TO THE MANNER OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH: FITTED TO THE FANCY AND DEVOTION OF THE YOUNGER AND PIOUS PERSONS, Apt for memory, and to be joyned to their other PRAYERS.
expand section 
Hymns for Advent, or the weeks immediately before the Birth of our blessed Saviour.
collapse section 
Hymns for Christmas-day.
 1. 
1.
 2. 
The Second Hymn; being a Dialogue between Three Shepherds.
 3. 
The Third Hymn: of Christ's Birth in an June.
expand section4. 
[The Fourth] Hymn for Christmas Day.
  
A Hymn upon St John's day.
  
Upon the Day of the Holy Innocents.
  
Upon the Epiphany, and the Three Wise Men of the East coming to Worship Jesus.
expand section 
A Meditation of the Four last things Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell For the time of Lent especially.
  
On the Conversion of St. Paul.
  
On the Purification of the blessed Virgin.
  
On Good-Friday.
  
On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.
  
Easter Day.
  
On the day of Ascension.
  
On the Feast of Pentecost, or Whitsunday.
expand section 
Penitentiall Hymns.
  
A prayer for Charity.
expand sectionIII. 
III. Job's Curse.
expand sectionIV. 
IV. Verse-portraits of the Four Evangelists;
expand sectionV. 
V. Aurea Grana.

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
previous section The poems and verse-translations of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor
next section
38

Easter Day.

What glorious light!
How bright a sun after so sad a night
Does now begin to dawn! Bless'd were those eyes
That did behold
This sun when He did first unfold
His glorious beams, and now begin to rise:
It was the holy tender sex
That saw the first ray:
Saint Peter and the other, had the reflex,
The second glimpse o'th'day.
Innocence had the first, and he
That fled, and then did penance, next did see
The glorious Sun of Righteousness
In His new dress
Of triumph, immortality, and bliss.
O dearest God, preserve our souls
In holy innocence;
Or if we do amiss
Make us to rise again to th'life of grace
That we may live with Thee, and see Thy glorious face,
The crown of holy penitence.
Allelujah.
previous section The poems and verse-translations of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor
next section