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Poems On several Choice and Various Subjects

Occasionally Composed By An Eminent Author. Collected and Published by Sergeant-Major P. F. [i.e. James Howell]

Howell, James (1594?-1666)

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POEMS Upon several Emergent Occasions.

The Progress of the Human Soul:

A Speculation.

Of some Pious Meditations, when Prisoner for the King in the Fleet.

A Contemplation upon the shortness and shallowness of Human Knowledg.

A Prophetic Poem (partly accomplished) to his present Majesty then Prince, 1640.

A Rapture upon Delia.

Of the tru Observation of Lent.

Before the History of Lewis the 13. (with his Cardinal Richlieu) called Lustra Ludovici.

Before LONDINOPOLIS:

Before Bishop Andrews most holy Meditations and Prayers.

Before that large and elaborat Work, called, The German Diet

AXIOMA.

Before my Lord of Cherberry's History of King Hen. 8.

OF TRANSLATIONS, Upon rendring into English a choice Venetian Romance, called, EROMENA,

Another.

The Dedication To Great Britain, of that Voluminous Work, Lexicon Tetraglotton:

Of the Original of the English Toung, And her Association With the Italian, Spanish, and French, &c.

Before a great Volume of PROVERBS, In Five Languages.

Of the strange vertu of VVords, Before The Great NOMENCLATURA;

Upon the great Drammatical Work of B. and Fletcher, publish'd 1646.

To his late Majesty, at the Dedication unto Him of DODONAS GROVE,

To Prince Charles, (now King.)

Before the VOCAL FOREST, To the knowing Reader, Touching the Progress of Learning.

To the Common Reader.

To the Critical Reader.

Touching the Vertu and Use Of Familiar Letters.

To the Sagacious Reader.

Upon a Rare and Recent Persian TRAGY-HISTORY.

An Elegie upon EDWARD late Earl of Dorset, 1651.

An EPITHALAMIUM Upon the Nuptials of that Princely Pair, Henry Lo. Marquiss of Dorchester, And the Lady Katherine, Daughter to the late Heroik Earl of Darby:

An HYMENÆUM,

A Poem Heroique,

Before The History of NAPLES, Called, PARTHENOPE,

Of the most curious Gardens, Groves, Mounts, Arbours, &c. Contriv'd, and lately made by The Lord Vicount Killmorry, At Dutton-Hall in Cheshire.

Before that Exquisit large Peece, A Survay Of the City and Signory of Venice.

A Fit of MORTIFICATION.

A Lovers Protestation.

Upon Himself, having been buried alive for many years in the Prison of the Fleet,

A Gradual Hymn of a double cadence, tending to the Honour of the Holy Name of God.

Upon a Beutiful Valentine.

Upon Black Eyes, and Becoming Frowns.

Upon Clorinda's Mask.

Upon Dr. Davies British-Grammar.

Upon Christmas-Day.

Upon my Honoured Friend and F. Mr. Ben. Johnson.

For the admitting Mistriss Anne King to be the tenth Muse.

A Hymn to the Blessed Trinity.

A short Ejaculation.

A Hymn of Mortification.

A Holy RAPTURE.

An EJACULATION To my CREATOR.

Upon a Fit of DISCONSOLATION, or Despondency of Spirit.

Upon the most Noble Work of the Lo. Mar. of Winchester,

Upon the untimely Death of the Lord Fra. Villars,

Upon the Holy Sacrament.

A Divine EJACULATION.

Of the Scene, and ingenious Composure of a Florentine Tragi-Comedy.

Upon the Poems of Dr. Aylet,

The Description of a Morning Expergefaction,

To Mrs. E. B. Upon a sudden SURPRISAL.

Upon the Nativity of our Saviour, Christmas-Day.

To my Dear Mother, The University of Oxford,

Upon a Cupboard of Venice-Glasses, sent for a New-years-gift to a choice Lady.

A Passionat ELEGIE Upon His Long-endeared Friend, Daniel Caldwal Esq

An ELEGIE Upon his Tomb in Horndon-Hill Church, Erected by his Wife, Who speaks

Sent with a Prayer-Book to a Pious Lady.

To DELIA.

A sudden SPECULATION Beyond the Seas.

Of Female Hypocrisie, In a short Dialog twixt Dion and Thyrsis.

Of some, Who blending their Brains together, plotted how to bespatter one of the Muses choicest Sons and Servants,

Upon Mr. Cleveland.

Upon Dr. Howel, Lord Bishop of Bristol, Who died a little after the putting down of Episcopacy.

Before the Second Part Of DODONAS GROVE.

The Conclusion of the Second Part Of DODONAS GROVE.

To my most Endeared R. Altham, Esq

Upon A New-fashion'd Table-Book, Sent Him for a Token from Amsterdam.

Upon EASTER-DAY.

A PARALLEL Twixt Angels and Men.

To my choice, and most endeared Friend, Mr. R. A.

Upon this rare Erotique Subject, The Master-piece of Love,

To his worthy Friend, Mr. Wallan,

A Pregnant Vow For a safe and seasonable Delivery To The Excellent Lady, the Lady KATHERINE, Marchioness of Dorchester.

Upon his Majesties Return, With the Dukes of York and Glocester.

Before ΟΗΡΟΑΟΓΙΑ.

An Eucharistical Rapture, With A Gradual Hymn to the Heavenly Hierarchy.

Upon the Exquisit Romance of the Bishop of Bellay, Made English out of the French, By Serjeant-Major John Wright

To Mr. Math. Johnson,

Upon Mr. Benlowes Divine Theophila.

On Doctor Charletons learned Piece, by proving that Stone-henge is a Danish-Monument,

Of Mrs. Diana Bill,

Upon Her Majesties 31 days sayling from Lisbon to England.

Upon the Posthume-Poems of Mr. Lovelace.

Upon the Gran Climacterik Year—63.

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A Gradual Hymn of a double cadence, tending to the Honour of the Holy Name of God.

1

Let the vast Universe,
And therein evry thing
The mighty Acts rehearse
Of their immortal King,
His Name extol,
What to Nadir,
From Zenith stir,
'Twixt Pole and Pole.

2

Ye Elements that move,
And alter evry hour,
Yet herein constant prove,
And symbolize all four:
His praise to tell,
Mix all in one,
For Air and Tone,
To sound this Peal.

3

Earth, which the Centre art,
And onely standest still,
Yet move, and bear thy part,
Resound with Ecchoes shrill.
Thy Mines of Gold,
With Precious Stones,
And Unions,
His fame uphold.

4

Let all thy fragrant Flowers
Grow sweeter by this Air;
Thy tallest Trees and Bowers
Bud forth and blossom fair:
Beasts wild and tame,
Whom Lodgings yeild,
House, Dens or Field,
Collaud his Name.

5

Ye Seas with Earth that make
One Globe flow high, and swell,
Exalt your Makers Name,
In Deep his Wonders tell:
Leviathan,
And what doth swim
Neer Bank or Brim,
His Glory scan.

6

Ye Airy Regions all,
Joyn in a sweet concent,
Blow such a Madrigal
May reach the Firmament:
Winds, Hail, Ice, Snow,
And perly Drops
That hang on Crops,
His Wonders show.

7

Pure Element of Fire,
With holy sparks inflame
This Sublunary Quire,
That all one Consort frame.
Their spirits raise
To Trumpet forth
Their Makers worth,
And sound his praise.

8

Ye glorious Lamps that roul
In your Cœlestial Sphears,
All under his controul,
Who you on Poles up-bears;
Him magnifie,
Ye Planets bright,
And fixed Lights
That deck the Skie.

9

O Heav'n Chrystalline,
Which by the Watry hue
Dost temper and refine
The rest in Azur'd Blue:
His Glory sound,
Thou first Mobeel,
Which mak'st all wheel
In circle round.

10

Ye Glorious Souls who raign
In sempiternal Joy,
Free from that flesh and pain,
Which here did you annoy,
And him behold,
In whom all Bliss
Concentred is;
His laud unfold.

11

Bless'd Maid which dost surmount
All Saints and Seraphims,
And raign'st as Paramount,
And chief of Cherubims;
Chaunt out his praise,
Who in thy Womb
Nine moneths took room,
Though crown'd with rays.

12

Oh let my Soul and Heart,
My Mind and Memory
Bear in this Hymn a part,
And joyn with Earth and Sky.
Let evry VVight,
The whole world ore,
Laud and adore
The Lord of Light.