PO E MS.

BY

THOMAS EDWARDS HANKINSON, M. A.

LATE OF

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

AND MINISTER OF ST. MATTHEW'S CHAPEL, DENMARK HILL.

EDITED BY HIS BROTHERS.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY;

AND DEIGHTON AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE.

MDCCCXLIV.

LONDON :

PRINTED BY G. J. PALMER, SAVOS STREET, STRAND.

CONTENTS.

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DAVID PLAYING THE HARP BEFORE SAUL. (Seatonian

Prize Poem, 1831.)

THE PLAGUE STAYED. (Seatonian Prize Poem, 1832.)

St. Paul At PHILIPPI. (Seatonian Prize Poem, 1833.)

JACOB. (Seatonian Prize Poem, 1834.) -

ISHMAEL. (Seatonian Prize Poem, 1835.)

THE STORY OF CONSTANTINE. (Written for the Seatonian

Prize Poem, 1836.)

ETHIOPIA STRETCHING OUT HER Hands UNTO God.

(Seatonian Prize Poem, 1838.)

THE MINISTRY OF ANGELS. (Seatonian Prize Poem, 1840.)

THE CALL OF ABRAHAM. (Seatonian Prize Poem, 1841.)

THE CROSS PLANTED UPON THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS.

(Seatonian Prize Poem, 1842.)

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