The Poems Of Isaac Watts

Author : Isaac Watts
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230468358
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Poems of Isaac Watts Volume 1 written by Isaac Watts and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ... TO DR. WATTS, ON HIS DIVINE POEMS. Say, human seraph, whence that charming force, That flame! that soul! which animates each line; And how it runs with such a graceful ease, Loaded with ponderous sense! Say, did not He, The lovely Jesus, who commands thy breast, Inspire thee with himself! With Jesus dwells, Knit in mysterious bands, the Paraclete, The breath of God, the everlasting source Of love; and what is love in souls like thine, But air, and incense to the poet's fire? Should an expiring saint, whose swimming eyes Mingle the images of things about him, But hear the least exalted of thy strains, How greedily he'd drink the music in, Thinking his heavenly convoy waited near! So great a stress of powerful harmony, Nature unable longer to sustain, Would sink oppress'd with joy to endless rest. Let none henceforth of Providence complain, As if the world of spirits lay unknown, Fenced round with black impenetrable night; What though no shining angel darts from thence, With leave to publish things conceal'd from sense, In language bright as theirs we are here told, When life its narrow round of years hath roll'd, What 'tis employs the bless'd, what makes their bliss; Songs such as Watts's are, and love like his. But then, dear sir, be cautious how you use, To transports so intensely raised your Muse, Lest, while the' ecstatic impulse you obey, The soul leap out, and drop the duller clay. HENRY GROVE'. Sept. 4, 1706. 1 A learned presbyterian divine, and master of an academy at Taunton in Somersetshire. He died in 1737. PREFACE. It has been a long complaint of the virtuous and refined world, that Poesy, whose original is divine, should be enslaved to vice and profaneness; that an art inspired from Heaven, should have so far lost the memory...