Religious and Moral Poems

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  To Maecenas
  On Virtue
  To the University of Cambridge, in New England
  To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty
  On being brought from Africa
  On the Rev. Dr. Sewell
  On the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
  On the Death of a young Lady of five Years of Age
  On the Death of a young Gentleman
  To a Lady on the Death of her Husband
  Goliath of Gath
  Thoughts on the Works of Providence
  To a Lady on the Death of three Relations
  To a Clergyman on the Death of his Lady
  An Hymn to the Morning
  An Hymn to the Evening
  On Isaiah lxiii. 1-8
  On Recollection
  On Imagination
  A Funeral Poem on the Death of an Infant aged twelve Months
  To Captain H. D. of the 65th Regiment
  To the Right Hon. William, Earl of Dartmouth
  Ode to Neptune
  To a Lady on her coming to North America with
       her Son, for the Recovery of her Health
  To a Lady on her remarkable Preservation in a
       Hurricane in North Carolina
  To a Lady and her Children on the Death of the Lady’s Brother
       and Sister, and a Child of the Name
       of Avis, aged one Year
  On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall,
  To a Gentleman on his Voyage to Great-Britain,
       for the Recovery of his Health
  To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory on reading his Sermons
       on Daily Devotion, in which that Duty is
       recommended and assisted
  On the Death of J. C. an Infant
  An Hymn to Humanity
  To the Hon. T. H. Esq; on the Death of his Daughter
  Niobe in Distress for her Children slain by Apollo,
  from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book VI, and from a View
  of the Painting of Mr. Richard Wilson