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The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D.

Containing, besides his Sermons, and Essays on miscellaneous subjects, several additional pieces, Selected from his Manuscripts by the Rev. Dr. Jennings, and the Rev. Dr. Doddridge, in 1753: to which are prefixed, memoirs of the life of the author, compiled by the Rev. George Burder. In six volumes
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

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VOL. IV.
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HORÆ LYRICÆ.
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RELIQUIÆ JUVENILES.
  
[My God, I love and I adore]
  
III.—TO DORIO. THE FIRST LYRIC HOUR.
  
IV.—THE HEBREW POET.
  
V.—THE THANKFUL PHILOSOPHER.
  
IX.—THE SACRED CONCERT OF PRAISE.
  
X.—THE WORLD A STRANGER TO GOD.
  
XIII.—THE MIDNIGHT ELEVATION.
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XIV.—THE HONOURABLE MAGISTRATE.
  
XVIII—YOUTH AND DEATH
  
XIX.—BABYLON DESTROYED; OR, THE 137TH PSALM TRANSLATED.
  
XX.—AN EPITAPH ON BIGOTRY, TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN, Which was written by the late pious and ingenious MR. JOHN REYNOLDS, And inserted in the Occasional Paper, Vol. III. Numb. 6 .
  
XXII.—AN HYMN TO CHRIST JESUS, THE ETERNAL LIFE.
  
XXIV—DAVID'S LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN;2 SAM i.19&c.
  
XXIX.—ON THE SIGHT OF QUEEN MARY, IN THE YEAR 1694.
  
XXX.—ON THE EFFIGIES OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS GEORGE, LATE PRINCE OF DENMARK, AND LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN, MADE IN WAX, AND SEATED AT A BANQUET NEAR THE EFFIGIES OF HER LATE MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE.
  
Albinus.
  
[‘Words of eternal truth proclaim]
  
XXXV.—AGAINST LEWDNESS.
  
XXXVI.—AGAINST DRUNKENNESS.
  
XXXVIII.—PASSION AND REASON.
  
XLVI.—COWARDICE AND SELF-LOVE.
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THOUGHTS AND MEDITATIONS IN A LONG SICKNESS.
  
[Hail, Hebrew psalmist king! Hail, happy hour!]
  
LIII.—AN ELEGY ON SOPHRONIA, WHO DIED OF THE SMALL-POX, 1711.
  
LIV.—AN ELEGY ON THE MUCH-LAMENTED DEATH OF MRS. ELIZABETH BURY, LATE WIFE OF THE REV. MR. SAMUEL BURY, OF BRISTOL, ANNEXED TO SOME MEMOIRS OF HER LIFE, DRAWN UP BY HIM; BUT COLLECTED OUT OF HER OWN PAPERS.
  
At the Death of that excellent Man Sir Thomas Abney.
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Death and Heaven. In five Lyric Odes.
  
LXI.—ON THE CORONATION OF THEIR MAJESTIES KING GEORGE II. AND QUEEN CAROLINE. OCTOBER 11, 1727.
  
LXII.—A LOYAL WISH ON HER MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY, MARCH 1, COMMONLY CALLED ST. DAVID'S DAY.
  
LXIII.—PIETY IN A COURT. TO PHILOMELA.
  
1. A Rural Meditation.
  
2. A Penitential Thought.
  
3. A Midnight Hymn.
  
4. The dying Christian's Hope.
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LXVI.—FRAGMENTS OF VERSE.
  
LXVII.—THE INSCRIPTIONS ON SEVERAL SMALL FRENCH PICTURES, TRANSLATED.
  
LXVIII.—INSCRIPTIONS ON DIALS.
  
LXVIII.—INSCRIPTIONS ON PORTRAITS.
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Various Mottos for an Effigy.
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LXX.—EPIGRAMS.
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LXXI.—EPITAPHS.
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REMNANTS OF TIME EMPLOYED, IN PROSE AND VERSE;

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LXII.—A LOYAL WISH ON HER MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY, MARCH 1, COMMONLY CALLED ST. DAVID'S DAY.

Borrowed from Psalm cxxxii. 10, 11.

I

Silence, ye nations; Israel, hear:
Thus hath the Lord to David sworn,
‘Train up thy sons to learn my fear,
‘And Judah's crown shall all thy race adorn;
‘Theirs by the royal honours thou hast won,
‘Long as the starry wheels of nature run;
‘Nature, be thou my pledge; my witness be the sun.’

II

Now, Britain, let thy vows arise,
May George the royal saint assume!
Then ask permission of the skies,
To put the favourite name in David's room:
Fair Carolina, join thy pious cares
To train in virtue's path your royal heirs,
And be the British crown with endless honour theirs.
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