Christianity Poems (7139 Poems)
The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter VI. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
An Exhortation to all that are out of Christ; in order to their closing the match with him: containing also motives and directions. Reader, into thine hands these lines are giv’n,But not without the providence of Heav’n;Or to advance thy … Continue reading
The Third Booke Of Qvodlibets (Robert Hayman Poems)
Iustice Epigram. Kings doe correct those that Rebellious are,And their good Subjects worthily preferre:Iust Epigrams reproue those that offend,And those that vertuous are, she doth commend. 2. To my delicate Readers. When I doe read others neate, dainty lines,I almost … Continue reading
The Believer’s Principles : Chap. II. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
The Believer’s Principles concerning the Law and Gospel;Particularly, 1. The Mystery2. The Difference.3. The Harmony4. The Place and Station,Of Law and Gospel. Sect. I.The Mystery of Law and Gospel. Though law-commands and gospel-graceAgree in mutual joint embrace;Yet law and gospel … Continue reading
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill’d in martial rule,First put the British troops to school;Instructed them in warlike trade,And new manoeuvres of parade,The true war-dance of Yankee reels,And manual exercise of heels;Made them give up, like saints complete,The arm of flesh, and trust … Continue reading
Time (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Genius of musings, who, the midnight hourWasting in woods or haunted forests wild,Dost watch Orion in his arctic tower,Thy dark eye fix’d as in some holy trance;Or when the vollied lightnings cleave the air,And Ruin gaunt bestrides the winged storm,Sitt’st … Continue reading
Trivia ; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Book II. (John Gay Poems)
Of Walking the Streets by Day. Thus far the Muse has trac’d in useful laysThe proper implements for wintry ways;Has taught the walker, with judicious eyes,To read the various warnings of the skies.Now venture, Muse, from home to range the … Continue reading
The Maid-Martyr (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Only you’d have me speak. Whether to speakOr whether to be silent is all one;Whether to sleep and in my dreaming frontHer small scared face forlorn; whether to wakeAnd muse upon her small soft feet that pacedThe hated, hard, inhospitable stone—I … Continue reading
The Oeconomy Of Love (John Armstrong Poems)
Thy bounties, Love, in thy soft raptures, whenTimeliest the melting pairs indulge, and howBest to improve the genial joy, how shunThe snakes that under rosy pleasure lurk,I sing; if thou, fair Cytherea, deignGracious to smile on my attempt. Tho’ thouNone … Continue reading
Mystery Of Carmel (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
The Mission floor was with weeds o’ergrown,And crumbling and shaky its walls of stone;Its roof of tiles, in tiers and tiers,Had stood the storms of a hundred years.An olden, weird, medieval styleClung to the mouldering, gloomy pile,And the rhythmic voice … Continue reading
The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Fifth. (Henry Alford Poems)
From the great sun light flows upon the earth; And every thing that lives this summer morn Looks joyous; all along the hills that stretch Far southward, slowly sail the dazzling heaps Of whitest vapour; but the upper heaven Is deep and clear;–above the yellow … Continue reading