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Miscellaneous Pieces

in Verse and Prose, By Theodosia [i.e. Anne Steele]

Steele, Anne (1717-1778)

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[“Still bleeds the deep, deep wound!—Where is the friend]

[O for a gush of soul-relieving tears]

OCCASIONAL POEMS.

Ode to Spring, written in March.

Written in May,

The Sickly Mind.

To a Flower.

The Salutary Disappointment.

The Butterfly.

Ode to Melancholy.

Ode to Hope.

To Amira on the death of her Son.

Desiring to love Christ and obey him.

On hearing the Funeral Bell, After frequent deaths in the neighbourhood.

True Happiness.

Waiting for Morning.

To Amira on her Mother's illness.

On receiving a Mourning Ring for a Young Relative.

To Amira on the sudden Death of her Mother.

Ode on a rural Prospect in June.

The Complaint of the Mind.

To Silvia.

To Silvia pensive.

Written in a painful Illness.

Desiring a thankful Devotion to God.

The Happiness of the Children of God.

A reflection on hearing the Bell at the interment of a neighbour.

Desiring the gracious presence of God.

The presence of God, the only comfort in affliction.

Faith and Hope in divine goodness, encouraged by past experience.

A Thought of Life and Death.

Desiring a firmer affiance in God under afflictions.

Trusting in his mercy with humble submission and hope.

Intreating the presence of God in affliction.

Acknowledging his goodness in supporting and restoring.

Desiring to praise God for the experience of his goodness.

Penitence and Hope.

Devoting the heart to Jesus.

The love of Christ exciting thankful devotion.

On recovery from sickness.

Occasioned by hearing a friend commend my verses.

To Silvia.

Wishing for real Pleasure.

To Amira.

A Reflection on the close of the Year,

Desiring a cheerful Resignation to the Divine Will.

On the sudden death of a libertine.

To my Watch.

The third chapter of Daniel paraphrased.

Messiah, an Ode.

The Blind Man's Petition.

Rest and Comfort in Christ alone.

On the Fifth of November.

On a day of prayer for success in War.

Hymn for a day of public thanksgiving for Peace.

To ------, on the death of her father.

To Myra.

To an Infant three weeks old.

Hymn for the Lord's Day Morning.

Happy Poverty, or the Poor in Spirit blessed.

The necessity of renewing Grace.

The Pearl of great price.

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On a day of prayer for success in War.

Lord, how shall wretched sinners dare
Look up to thy divine abode?
Or offer their imperfect prayer
Before a just, a holy God?

Bright terrors guard thy awful seat,
And dazling glories veil thy face!
Yet mercy calls us to thy feet,
Thy throne is still a throne of grace.

O may our souls thy grace adore,
May Jesus plead our humble claim;
While thy protection we implore,
In his prevailing, glorious name.

With all the boasted pomp of war
In vain we dare the hostile field:
In vain, unless the Lord be there;
Thy arm alone is Britain's shield.

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Let past experience of thy care
Support our hope, our trust invite!
Again attend our humble prayer,
Again be mercy thy delight!

Our arms succeed, our councils guide,
Let thy right hand our cause maintain;
'Till war's destructive rage subside,
And peace resume her gentle reign.

O when shall time the period bring
When raging war shall waste no more;
When peace shall stretch her balmy wing
From Europe's coast to India's shore?

When shall the gospel's healing ray
(Kind source of amity divine!)
Spread o'er the world celestial day?
When shall the nations, Lord, be thine?