III. The Poems,
five hundred and seven in number, are in various metres. While
leaving much to be desired, these verses shew much real poetic feeling,
and at times rise to genuine beauty. Thirty-eight are dogmatic,
on the Trinity, on the works of God in Creation, on Providence, on
Angels and Men, on the Fall, on the Decalogue, on the Prophets Elias
and Elissæus, on the Incarnation, the Miracles and Parables of our
Lord, and the canonical Books of the Bible. Forty are Moral; two
hundred and six Historical and Autobiographical; one hundred and
twenty-nine are Epitaphs, or rather funeral Epigrams; ninety-four are
Epigrams.