Written January First, 1792 (Janet Little Poems)
TO-DAY old wrinkl'd Time appears;A smile adorns his brow,While to our list of fleeting years,He adds the ninety-two.Our fav'rite hopes, ...
TO-DAY old wrinkl'd Time appears;A smile adorns his brow,While to our list of fleeting years,He adds the ninety-two.Our fav'rite hopes, ...
Support, O God! with thy Almighty aidThy glorious church, that fair wide-spreading vine,Which thy right hand has in thy vineyard ...
The home of my soul, worn and weary, And pierced by the rocks of old time,The windows grown dim and the ...
Ye blest celestial twain, From your bright spheres descending,He called ye not in vain, His soul's devotion tending.To liberty and truth, With burning ...
YES; when the ways oppose- When the hard means rebel, Fairer the work out-grows,- More potent far the spell. O ...
TO the Eternal Lord,By saints on earth ador'd And saints above.Let us glad honors rear,In strains of praise and pray'rHis glorious ...
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for YouAs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;That I may rise and ...
Cold hears thy soul the praise or cursing of posterity.Quit of the human race, thou man of destiny!They only could ...
While morning yet was young, within his hall Of justice Pharaoh sat: his princes, priests, Judges, and ministers, in costly ...
Far off (no matter whether east or west,A real country, or one made in jest,Nor yet by modern Mandevilles disgraced,Nor ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
Tombed in the solid night of starless space; From nearest living orb so far removed, That light, of all material ...
On the next morning,--so by heavenly Voice Instructed,--unto Pharaoh went again Moses and Aaron; craving to be heard, Because of ...
Oh! hideous fiend, of form uncouth, With jaundic'd eye, and canker'd tooth, Fell Envy, why dost thou profane The labours ...
BRITANNIA.Wretched Britannia! Hapless and undone! How have my Follies call'd this Vengeance down, And anger'd Heav'n to so severe a ...
I.Ye subjects of Britain, attend to my ...
WHO shall paint Anger in his furious form? The gloomy frown, the flashing of the storm,The violence that overleaps ...
GREAT God! to whom the birds for foodStill raise the expecting eye;Thou whom the raven's callow broodImplore with ceaseless cry.Father! ...
O Master-Builder, blustering as you go About your giant work, transforming all The empty woods into a glittering hall, And ...
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories