Hymns for Communion V (John Pierpont Poems)
"And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives."—Matth. xxvi. 30.There's something sweet in ...
"And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives."—Matth. xxvi. 30.There's something sweet in ...
This Christmas-time my son will come, God willing, to the Holy PlaceAnd by the manger's little room Will bend his knee and ...
O'er Kedron's stream, and Salem's height.And Olivet's brown steep,Moves the majestic queen of night,And throws from heaven her silver light,And ...
O'er Kedron's stream, and Salem's height,And Olivet's brown steep,Rolls the majestic queen of night,And showers from heaven her silver light,And ...
We may not climb the heavenly steepsTo bring the Lord Christ down;In vain we search the lowest deepsFor Him who ...
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
A Sabbath morn — softly the village bellsRing out their welcome to the sacred day.The weary swain has drunk of ...
The enchanted island rose before me, drawnMore beautiful than words of mine may reach;It lay magnificent in a magic dawn,And ...
I. I honour Nature, holding it unjustTo look with jealousy on her designs;With every passing year more fast she twinesAbout ...
Too wearily had we and songBeen left to look and left to long,Yea, song and we to long and look,Since ...
He is gone! beyond the skies, A cloud receives him from our eyes: Gone beyond the highest height Of ...
'No man ever attained supreme knowledge, unless his heart had beentorn up by the roots.'When I presage the time shall ...
After volcanoes husht with snows,Up where the wide-winged condor goes,Great Aconcagua, husht and high,Sends down the ancient peace of the ...
Christ washed the feet of Judas! The dark and evil passions of his soul,His secret plot, and sordidness complete,His hate, ...
Philosophers have measur'd the mountains,Fathom'd the depths of the seas, of states, and kings,Walk'd with a staffe ...
'Friend, whereto art thou come?' Thus Verity;Of each that to the world's sad OlivetComes with no multitude, but alone by ...
So when he turned Evangelist, see what came,-Writ on his page were stories, with sweet tearsBaptized by all the yearnings ...
Philosophers have measur'd mountains, Fathom'd the depths of the seas, of states, and kings, Walk'd with a staff to heav'n, ...
O God, where does this tend-these struggling aims? What would I have? What is this 'sleep', which seems To bound ...
Immortal love, forever full, Forever flowing free, Forever shared, forever whole, A never ebbing sea! Our outward lips confess the ...
Too wearily had we and song Been left to look and left to long, Yea, song and we to long ...
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