The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter V. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
Arguments and Encouragements to Gospel Ministers to avoid a Legal strain of Doctrine, and endeavour the Sinner's match with Christ ...
Arguments and Encouragements to Gospel Ministers to avoid a Legal strain of Doctrine, and endeavour the Sinner's match with Christ ...
Where the great green combers break in thunder on the barrier reefs,--Where, unceasing, sounds the mighty diapason of the deep,--Ringed ...
So, this is all, - the utmost reachOf priestly power the mind to fetter!When laymen think, when women preach,A war ...
WHEN first thou wakest, each succeeding day,Lift up to God above thy grateful eyes,And due respect to him be sure ...
From the German of Gellert.Gott, deine Gute reicht so weit,So weit die Wolken gehen; &c.O GOD, thy goodness doth extendFar ...
Thou hast, O Christ! our bellies fill'd,And with thy choicest dainties fed:Fill too the mouth of man and childWith praises ...
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good,A loving-kindness for the great man's fame,Dwells here and there with people of no name,In noisome ...
The day is ended. Ere I sink to sleep, My weary spirit seeks repose in Thine.Father! forgive my trespasses, and keep This little ...
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good,A loving-kindness for the great man's fame,Dwells here and there with people of no name,In noisome ...
Permit us not, O God, thy gifts to waste,Or eat our meat, as filthy hogs eat mast,Ne'er lifting up our ...
How great my grief, my joys how few,Since first it was my fate to know thee!- Have the slow years ...
THE monastery towers, as pure and fairAs virgin vows, reached up white hands to Heaven;The walls, to guard the hidden ...
AND do not fear to hope. Can poet's brainMore than the Father's heart rich good invent?Each time we smell the ...
THERE is an end of joy and sorrow;Peace all day long, all night, all morrow, But never a time ...
Adieu to kindred hearts and home, To pleasure, joy, and mirth,A fitter foot than mine to roam Could scarcely tread ...
Go not far from me, O my God, Whom all my times obey;Take from me anything Thou wilt, But go ...
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good, A loving-kindness for the great man's fame, Dwells here and there with people of no ...
How great my grief, my joys how few, Since first it was my fate to know thee! - Have the ...
I I saw a slowly-stepping train -- Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar -- Following in files ...
Two souls diverse out of our human sight Pass, followed one with love and each with wonder: The stormy sophist ...
In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ...
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