POEMS;
PRINCIPALLY
ON SACRED SUBJECTS.

by THE
REV. ROBERT BROWN,
MINISTER OF ST. MATTHEW'S, DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.

" If I one soul improve, I have not lived in vain."
BEATTIE'S MINSTREL.

PUBLISHED BY JAMES NISBET,
21, BERNERS STREET, LONDON.

M.DCCC.XXVI.

Dedication
Preface
Israel	1
The Triumphs of the Bible	24
Gethsemane	37
The Bible	40
Elegy on the Right Rev. Thomas Wilson, D. D.Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man	52
My Native Land	60
Lines on viewing Peel Castle by Moonlight	62
The Morning Star	64
This is not our Rest	66
The End of all Things	68
The Lake of Gennesareth	71
Winter	75
Elegiac Lines, occasioned by the Death of an Infant	81
How great is God	84
The Death-Bell	87
Evening	91
Lines on viewing the Nunnery near Douglas, in the Isle of Man	93
Let me die the Death of the Righteous, and let my last End be like his	98
Thou art near	102
To a departed Friend	105
Remember me	107
The Christian's Woes	109
The Dead who in the Saviour die	111
The Rainbow	113
Man is born to die	114
It is not thus on high	117
Go and sin no more	119
Why art thou east down, O my Soul, and why art thou so disquieted within me	121
Written for a Child, December 31, 1824	123
Lines written near the Grave of an Infant	126
Ode to Death	128
On the Year 1815	132
Albion	138
Notes	141




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