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Title: The separation
Author: Norris, John
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Religious poem, looking ahead to death, speculating on the experience of the
soul at that time. Lacks the final stanza. .
Title: The elevation
Author: Norris, John
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Imagined flight of the soul to the happiness of heaven from where worldly
pleasures appear folly; religious. Stanzas 1-2, 5 of the published version.
Title: The 139 Psalm paraphras'd to the 14 verse
Author: Norris, John
Attribution: Norris; [Bible]
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem in praise of the omniscience and omnipresence of God,
paraphrasing Psalm 139
Title: The meditation
Author: Norris, John
Attribution: Norris
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem looking ahead to death, speculating on the experience of the
soul at that time
Title: The complaint of Adam turn'd out of paradise
Author: Norris, John
Attribution: Norris; [Bible]
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, lament by Adam on having to leave the happiness of the Garden
of Eden, or paradise; elaborated from the incident in Genesis
Title: The passion of our blessed saviour, represented in a pindarick ode
Author: Norris, John
Attribution: Mr Norris
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Religious poem, Pindaric ode on the passion of Christ from Gethsemane to the crucifixion
Title: An hymn upon the transfiguration
Author: Norris, John
Attribution: [Mr Norris]
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Religious poem in praise of the transfiguration of Christ
Title: Seraphick love
Author: Norris, John
Attribution: [Mr Norris]
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Religious poem, on the transcending of human love and beauty by the divine
Title: The elevation
Author: Norris, John
Attribution: [Mr Norris]
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Imagined flight of the soul to the happiness of heaven, from where worldly pleasures appear folly; religious
Title: The passion of the virgin mother beholding the crucifixion of
her divine son
Author: Norris, John
Attribution: [Mr Norris]
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Religious poem on the reaction of the Virgin Mary to the crucifixion of Christ
Title: The resignation
Author: Norris, John
Attribution: [Mr Norris]
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Religious poem of commitment and devotion to God in return for the gift of Christ
Title: The prospect
Author: Norris, John
Attribution: [Mr Norris]
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Religious poem on the happy prospect of the release of the soul to heaven
Title: The 63d chap. of Isaiah paraphrased to the 6th verse. A
pindarique ode
Author: Norris, John
Attribution: [Mr Norris]; [Bible]
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Religious poem, a pindaric ode paraphrasing Isaiah 63:1-6, a vision of Christ the avenger treading the winepress
Title: The consummation
Author: Norris, John
Attribution: Mr Norris
Date(s): 168-
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Religious ode, imagined description of the day of judgement
Title: Pythagoras's golden verses
Author: Norris, John
Date(s): 1682 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 123
Contents: Moralising verses on the conduct of life. Published in 'Hierocles upon the Golden verses of the Pythagoreans', translated by John Norris. The Greek original and a parallel Latin version are transcribed on pp. 156, 159-64 of the manuscript
Effigies amoris in English : or, The picture of love unveil'd
Waring, Robert (1614-1658); Phil-icon-erus; Norris, John (1657-1711)
1682
Other eds. show authors name on t.p. Contains marginal notes. Epistle deicatory signed 'Phil-icon-erus', probably Norris's pseudonym. Errata: p. [3] at end. Advertisement: p. [5] at end. Ano...