John Pierpont Poems on Work & Career Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Years roll along; and, as they glide awayIn silent lapse, on every New-Year's day'T is claimed by custom that we ...

This is a very pleasant sight,—The Moslems thronging to the squareThat lies before their house of prayer!Through narrow streets, that ...

How sadly hath this Sabbath day,O God, been spent by me,Cribbed close beneath a narrow deck,Washed by the frequent sea,An ...

"If the pulpit be silent, whenever or wherever there may be a sinner, bloody with this guilt, within the hearing ...

The Liberty Bell—the Liberty Bell—The Tocsin of Freedom and Slavery's knell,That a whole long year has idle hung,Again is wagging ...

I saw her mother's eye of loveAs gently on her rest,As falls the light of evening's sunUpon a lily's breast.And ...

Wake! wake! friends of your kind!There's a Demon, a Demon, abroad!Ye'll scent him in every breath of the wind;—Around him ...

"Grace is deceitful, and beauty vain."—Solomon.O, say not, wisest of all the kingsThat have risen on Israel's throne to reign,Say ...

Knowledge and Virtue! sister powers,Who guard and grace a Christian state,Better than bulwarks, walls, or towers,To you this hall we ...

'Tis but a drop" the father said,And gave it to his son;But little did he think a workOf death was ...

Spirit of Wisdom and of Power!The works of Egypt's mightiest hour,—The pyramid and vaulted tomb,—The peerless fane of David's son,The ...

Mighty One, whose name is holy,Thou wilt save thy work alive;And the spirit of the lowlyThou wilt visit and revive.What ...

"The Plague! the Plague! bring out your dead."Through all the land the cryRang shrilly forth. "We bring our dead!"Was murmured ...

Welcome, brothers, welcome here!Cheerful are our hearts to-day,Tell us, we would gladly hear,How our cause speeds on its way.Brothers, then ...

John Pierpont Poems on Work & Career (14 Poems)