Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects: Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author
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Hayley was an English writer and poet. This book covers topics that are often considered tense and uncomfortable to talk about and which often spark debates among friends. From The Fear of Death to passages honoring bishops and friends of the author, this book manages to make scary topics beautiful and helps them become less fearful in the process.
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Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects - William Hayley
William Hayley
Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects
Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066122270
Table of Contents
FELPHAM
A COLLECTION OF HYMNS
TWO HYMNS
PRINTED ONLY AS PRIVATE TOKENS OF REGARD,
FOR THE PARTICULAR FRIENDS OF THE AUTHOR.
….nec pia cessant In tumulo officia.
MILTONI MANSUS.
A Christian's kindness ends not in the tomb.
Chichester:
PRINTED AT THE PRIVATE PRESS OF W. MASON.
1818.
ON THE FEAR OF DEATH:
AN EPISTLE TO A LADY.
1768.
THE FEAR OF DEATH.
Thou! whose superior, and aspiring mind
Can leave the weakness of thy sex behind;
Above its follies, and its fears can rise,
Quit the low earth, and gain the distant skies:
Whom strength of soul and innocence have taught
To think of death, nor shudder at the thought;
Say! whence the dread, that can alike engage
Vain thoughtless youth, and deep-reflecting age;
Can shake the feeble, and appal the strong;
Say! whence the terrors, that to death belong?
Guilt must be fearful: but the guiltless too
Start from the grave, and tremble at the view.
The blood-stained pirate, who in neighbouring climes,
Might fear, lest justice should o'ertake his crimes,
Wisely may bear the sea's tempestuous roar,
And rather wait the storm, than make the shore;
But can the mariner, who sailed in vain
In search of fancy'd treasure on the main,
By hope deceiv'd, by endless whirlwinds tost,
His strength exhausted, and his viands lost,
When land invites him to receive at last
A full reward for every danger past:
Can he then wish his labours to renew,
And fly the port just opening to his view?
Not less the folly of the timorous mind,
Which dreads that peace, it ever longs to find;
Which worn with age, and tost in endless strife
On this rough ocean, this tempestuous life,
Still covets pain, and shakes with abject fear,
When sickness points to death, and shews the haven near.
The love of life, it yet must be confest,
Was fixed by Nature in the human breast;
And Heaven thought fit that fondness to employ.
To teach us to preserve the brittle toy.
But why, when knowledge has improv'd our thought,
Years undeceived us, and affliction taught;
Why do we strive to grasp with eager hand,
And stop the course of life's quick-ebbing sand?
Why vainly covet, what we can't sustain?
Why, dead to pleasure, would we live to pain?