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A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects

By Sir Richard Blackmore
Blackmore, Richard

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[PART the First.]
  
ADVICE TO THE POETS.
  
INSTRUCTIONS TO VANDER BANK. A Sequel to the Advice to the POETS.
  
A SATYRE UPON WIT.
  
THE KIT-CATS. A POEM.
  
CREMES. A SATYRE.
  
TO COLON
  
THE STORY OF Don Carlos, PRINCE of SPAIN.
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THE NATURE OF MAN.
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THE NATURE OF MAN.
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BOOK I.
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BOOK II.
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BOOK III.
  
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THE POWER OF PASSIONS
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PART the Second.
  
YOUTH in Danger. TO MENALCAS.
  
On FAME.
  
An ODE to the Supreme Being.
  
THE Safety of a Low State.
  
Psalm 42. v. 5. Why art Thou cast down, O my Soul, &c.
  
Psalm 2. v. 12. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, &c.
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AN ODE TO JEHOVAH, Creator.
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CONTEMPT OF THE WORLD.
  
Contemplative Solitude.
  
A Thought of Death.
  
The Ejaculation.
  
An Expostulation with Damon, complaining of his Narrow Fortune.
  
AN ODE TO JEHOVAH, Immutable, Merciful and Just.
  
Matth. V. 29, 30. If thy Right Eye offend thee, pluck it out, &c.
  
On Riches.
  
A Paraphrase on the XCth Psalm, stiled, The Prayer of Moses the Man of God.
  
Right ZEAL.
  
Psal. XCIV. 19. In the Multitude of my Thoughts within me, &c.
  
The WISH.
  
A HYMN TO THE LIGHT of the WORLD.
  
THE Vanity of Human Life.
  
Happiness Discover'd.
  
A Morning Thought.
  
A HYMN TO THE SACRED SPIRIT.
  
THE RETIREMENT.
  
A Thought of Repentance.
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THE CARTONS OF RAPHAEL URBIN, IN THE Gallery at Hampton-Court.
  
[Stay, Stranger, here, in this Apartment stand]
  
THE STORY of ANANIAS.
  
THE Story of Elymas the Sorcerer.
  
The Cripples at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple.
  
The Story of St. Peter's Draught of Fish.
  
The Story of St. Paul and Barnabas at Lystra.
  
St. Paul Preaching.
  
Our SAVIOUR and His Twelve Apostles.
  
The PASSAGE.
  
The Impertinence of Earthly Things.
  
To Devout Christians.
  
SOLOMON's Irony: A Paraphrase on Eccles. XI. 9. Rejoyce, O Young Man, in thy Youth, &c.
  
New Year's Day.
  
AN ODE TO THE DIVINE BEING.

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Hear, O ye Heav'ns, ye Constellations hear,
And Thou, attentive Earth, give Ear:
Whirlwinds be gone, asleep ye Tempests lie,
Nor let ye gloomy Clouds, that float on high,
Your Thunder bellow, or your Light'nings fly:
And thou, O Ocean, Peace command,
Let all thy list'ning Waves erected stand
In Chrystal Heaps, as when the splitting Tide
Sav'd threaten'd Jacob from Egyptian Pride
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Be each extended Vale, and rising Hill,
As Midnight husht, and as the Desart still,
Whil'st I of Seraphs æmulous, reherse
Allmighty Wonders in extatick Verse.
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