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.

 

CONTENTS

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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