Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1. (William Cowper Poems)
CHORUS OF ANGELS, Singing the Glory of God.To Heaven's bright lyre let Iris be the bow,Adapt the spheres for chords, ...
CHORUS OF ANGELS, Singing the Glory of God.To Heaven's bright lyre let Iris be the bow,Adapt the spheres for chords, ...
SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess ...
Dear Anna, -- Between friend and friend,Prose answers every common end;Serves, in a plain and homely way,To express the occurrence ...
And dwells there in a female heart,By bounteous heaven design'dThe choicest raptures to impact,To feel the most refined;Dwells there a ...
In Scotland's realm, where trees are fewNor even shrubs abound;But where, however bleak the viewSome better things are found;For husband ...
'Twas my purpose, on a day,To embark, and sail away.As I climbed the vessel's side,Love was sporting in the tide;'Come,' ...
Where Humber pours his rich commercial stream,There dwelt a wretch, who breathed but to blaspheme.In subterraneous caves his life he ...
There is a book, which we may call(Its excellence is such)Alone a library, though small;The ladies thumb it much.Words none, ...
There's not an echo round me,But I am glad should learn,How pure a fire has found me,The love with which ...
A raven, while with glossy breastHer new-laid eggs she fondly press'd,And, on her wicker-work high mounted,Her chickens prematurely counted(A fault ...
On the green margin of the brook,Despairing Phyllida reclined,Whilst every sigh, and every look,Declared the anguish of her mind.Am I ...
Did not my Muse (what can she less?)Perceive her own unworthiness,Could she by some well-chosen theme,But hope to merit your ...
The sparkling eye, the mantling cheek,The polished front, the snowy neck,How seldom we behold in one!Glossy locks, and brow serene,Venus' ...
Did not thy reason, and thy sense,With most persuasive eloquence,Convince me that obedience dueNone may so justly claim as you,By ...
The lapse of time and rivers is the same,Both speed their journey with a restless stream;The silent pace, with which ...
Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade,Apt emblem of a virtuous maidSilent and chaste she steals along,Far from the world's ...
I am just two and two, I am warm, I am cold,And the parent of numbers that cannot be told.I ...
I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid ...
Jesus! where'er Thy people meet, There they behold Thy mercy seat; Where'er they seek Thee, Thou art found, And every ...
(Revelations, iii. 1-6) "Write to Sardis," saith the Lord, "And write what He declares, He whose Spirit, and whose word, ...
Oh happy shades--to me unblest! Friendly to peace, but not to me! How ill the scene that offers rest, And ...
(Mark, xi.17) Thy mansion is the Christian's heart, O Lord, Thy dwelling place secure! Bid the unruly throng depart, And ...
Dear Lord! accept a sinful heart, Which of itself complains, And mourns, with much and frequent smart, The evil it ...
O Lord, my best desire fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort to Thy will, And make ...
Oh how I love Thy holy Word, Thy gracious covenant, O Lord! It guides me in the peaceful way; I ...
(Isaiah, ix. 15-20) Hear what God the Lord hath spoken, "O my people, faint and few, Comfortless, afflicted, broken, Fair ...
His master taken from his head, Elisha saw him go; And in desponding accents said, "Ah, what must Israel do?" ...
(Ezekiel, xxxvi. 25-28) The Lord proclaims His grace abroad! "Behold, I change your hearts of stone; Each shall renounce his ...
Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, Nor swiftewd greyhound follow, Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew, Nor ear heard ...
"Me too, perchance, in future days, The sculptured stone shall show, With Paphian myrtle or with bays Parnassian on my ...
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