Item genre: Imitation

Beinecke Library: MS pb 110
Miscellany of poems by Edmund Waller and other contemporary poets (1684)
(compiler) Elisabeth Moyle Gregor (Compiler, scribe)

Item 21 (Verse, Imitation, Religious writing), fols.17v-20v

Of Divine Poesie, Two Cantos Occasioned upon sight of the 53rd chapter of Isaiah turned into verse by Mrs Wharton written by Mr Waller and added in the last edition 1682


Edmund Waller (Author)

Poets we prize, when in their verse we find

...

With fruit as fair as by her muse is born

130 lines

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'Mrs Wharton' is Anne Wharton (1659-1685).

This poem is in G. Thorn Drury's The Poems of Edmund Waller with no material differences.

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Beinecke Library: MS pb 110
Miscellany of poems by Edmund Waller and other contemporary poets (1684)
(compiler) Elisabeth Moyle Gregor (Compiler, scribe)

Item 22 (Verse, Imitation, Religious writing), fol.21r

Of the paraphrase on the Lord's prayer written by Mrs Wharton by Waller


Edmund Waller (Author)

Silence you winds, listen ethereal lights

...

For all but pardon for offences pray

16 lines

[Mrs Wharton is Anne Wharton (1659-1685).]

[This poem is in G. Thorn Drury's The Poems of Edmund Waller with no material differences]


Beinecke Library: MS pb 110
Miscellany of poems by Edmund Waller and other contemporary poets (1684)
(compiler) Elisabeth Moyle Gregor (Compiler, scribe)

Item 23 (Verse, Imitation, Religious writing), fols.21v-22v

Some reflections of his upon the several petitions in the same prayer by Waller


Edmund Waller (Author)

His sacred name, with reverence profound

...

Exalt thy kingdom, and thy glory raise

40 lines

[This poem is in G. Thorn Drury's The Poems of Edmund Waller with the following differences: the MS version omits lines 11-12, indicating, according to Drury, that the MS follows the 1685 edition.]

[The poem is followed by Waller's quotation, from Horace: " Favete linguis!...Virginibus puerisque canto - Horat."]