Hymns and Odes for Temperance Occasions XIV: The Drunkard’s Funeral (John Pierpont Poems)
There was, some eighteen years or more ago,A young man, a parishioner of mine,Whose name was Willard. There are Willards ...
There was, some eighteen years or more ago,A young man, a parishioner of mine,Whose name was Willard. There are Willards ...
How sadly hath this Sabbath day,O God, been spent by me,Cribbed close beneath a narrow deck,Washed by the frequent sea,An ...
'Tis but a drop" the father said,And gave it to his son;But little did he think a workOf death was ...
The winds and waves were roaring;The Pilgrims met for prayer;And here, their God adoring,They stood, in open air.When breaking day ...
The winds and waves were roaring;The Pilgrims met for prayer;And here, their God adoring,They stood, in open air.When breaking day ...
Oh! what are the pangs that result from excess,In quaffing the juice of the vine;Tho' the bosom may feel them ...
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 ...
I praise the God, who, while I keptMy watch beside the grave,Where, cold and dead, my father slept,Where, drowned in ...
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