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Lo! for this dark terrestrial ball
Forsakes his azure-paved hall
A prince of heav’nly birth!
Divine Humanity behold.
What wonders rise, what charms unfold
At his descent to earth!
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Chapter List-
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
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Chapter_3
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Preface
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Letter to the Publisher
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
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To Maecenas
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On Virtue
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To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
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To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. 1768
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On Being Brought from Africa to America
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On the Death of theRev.Dr.Sewell. 1769
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On the Death of theRev.Mr.George Whitefield. 1770
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On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age
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On the Death of a Young Gentleman
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To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
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Goliath of Gath
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Thoughts on the Works of Providence
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To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations
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To a Clergyman on the Death of His Lady
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An Hymn to the Morning
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An Hymn to the Evening
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Isaiah 63:1–8
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On Recollection
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On Imagination
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A Funeral Poem on the Death ofC. E.An Infant of Twelve Months
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To Captain H⸺d, of the 65th Regiment
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To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America,etc.
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Ode to Neptune
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To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health
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To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina
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To a Lady and Her Children, on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother
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To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name of Avis, Aged One Year
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On the Death ofDr.Samuel Marshall. 1771
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To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain for the Recovery of His Health
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To theRev.Dr.Thomas Amory, on Reading His Sermons on Daily Devotion, in Which That Duty Is Recommended and Assisted
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On the Death ofJ. C.An Infant
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An Hymn to Humanity
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To the HonourableT. H.Esq.; On the Death of His Daughter
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Niobe in Distress for Her Children Slain by Apollo, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, BookVIand from a View of the Painting ofMr.Richard Wilson
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ToS. M.A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
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To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of His Lady. March 24, 1773
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A Farewel to America. ToMrs.S. W.
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A Rebus, byI. B.
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An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of These Poems
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Endnotes