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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)

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II. Festival Hymns.
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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.
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Hymns for Advent, or the weeks immediately before the Birth of our blessed Saviour.
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The Second Hymn for Advent; or Christ's coming to Jerusalem in Triumph.
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Hymns for Christmas-day.
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The Second Hymn; being a Dialogue between Three Shepherds.
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The Third Hymn: of Christ's Birth in an June.
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[The Fourth] Hymn for Christmas Day.
  
Chorus.
  
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.
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A Meditation of the Four last things Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell For the time of Lent especially.
  
A Meditation of Death.
  
The Prayer.
  
Of the Day of Judgement.
  
Of Heaven.
  
Of Hell.
  
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.
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Penitentiall Hymns.
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A prayer for Charity.
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III. Job's Curse.
  
[Let the night perish, cursèd be the morn]
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IV. Verse-portraits of the Four Evangelists;
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1 St. Matthew.
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2 St. Marke.
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3. St. Luke.
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4. St. John.
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V. Aurea Grana.
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I. From “Deus Justificatus or a Vindication of the Glory of the Divine Attributes in the Question of Original Sin: in a Letter to a Person of Quality.” 1656 (12o) and 1657 (folio).
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1. THE FALL.
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2. GUILT AND DESTINY.
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3. ORIGINAL SIN.
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4. NO MASTERS: ONE MASTER.
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5. THE SOFT ANSWER.
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6. HINDRANCES.
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7. CONSCIENCE.
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8. TRUE IF NEW.
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II. From “A Discourse of the Nature, Offices, and Measures of Friendship” 1657 and 1673 (folio) and 1678 (12o.)
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9. FRIENDSHIPS.
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10. LOVE FOR LOVE.
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11. MUTUAL FRIENDS.
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12. A FRIEND NOT MONEY.
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13. A NOBLE FRIENDSHIP.
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14. UNSELFISHNESS IN FRIENDSHIP.
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15. BROTHERS.
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16. FRIENDSHIP IMMORTAL.
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17. HELP IN ADVERSITY.

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1 St. Matthew.

This Mathew and that angel doth implie
Christe's roial ligne in His humanitie:
Mankinde Himself, deriving downe the same
To Joseph's tribe, from faithfull Abraham.
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