Collected poems of Samuel Davies : 1723-1761

Davies, Samuel (1723-1761)

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, CHIEFLY ON Divine Subjects.

BOOK I.

BOOK II.

THE APPENDIX

[No. I. No! never, never can this Heart]

[No II. And must I call these Passions mine]

[No. III. Life's but a Load, a tedious Pain]

[No. IV. My God! I'm pleas'd that Thou art All in All]

[No. V. Oh! be Thy glorious Name exalted high]

[No. VI. That I'm the vilest Sinner, Lord! I own]

[No. VII. Repulse me not; for whither shall I flee?]

[No. VIII. Ah! what avail these warm poetic Strains]

[No. IX. Why should I, in the Rage of wild Despair]

10.

[No. X. Though luscious Figs no more shall bloom and grow]

11.

[No. XI. Yes! soon the iron Hand of Death]

12.

[No. XII. Oh! while eternal Ages roll]

13.

XIII. A Description of a Storm, May 9, 1751.

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XXVII. On bearing of the Rev. Mr. Samuel Blair's desperate Illness by common Fame, and Letters from Correspondents in Pennsylvania, June 9. 1751.

UNCOLLECTED POEMS

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POEMS ASCRIBED TO DAVIES

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[No II. And must I call these Passions mine]

And must I call these Passions mine
That feel so faintly Charms divine?
And must I own this useless Soul,
To Thee so languid, cold and dull?
I would, my God, call nothing mine
But what is wholly, solely Thine.

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[No II. And must I call these Passions mine]