The Narrow Way (William Cowper Poem)
What thousands never knew the road! What thousands hate it when 'tis known! None but the chosen tribes of God ...
What thousands never knew the road! What thousands hate it when 'tis known! None but the chosen tribes of God ...
O God, whose favorable eye, The sin-sick soul revives, Holy and heavenly is the joy Thy shining presence gives. Not ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
God gives his mercies to be spent; Your hoard will do your soul no good. Gold is a blessing only ...
(Judges, vi.25) Jesus! whose blood so freely stream'd To satisfy the law's demand; By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem'd, ...
No strength of nature can suffice To serve the Lord aright: And what she has she misapplies, For want of ...
My soul is sad, and much dismay'd; See, Lord, what legions of my foes, With fierce Apollyon at their head, ...
(Genesis, v.24) Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the ...
With a love a madness for Shelley Chatterton Rimbaud and the needy-yap of my youth has gone from ear to ...
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
"And the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the heads of the children, even unto the third and ...
Old Elm that murmured in our chimney top The sweetest anthem autumn ever made And into mellow whispering calms would ...
Love, indeed thy strength is mighty Thus, alone, such strife to bear -- Three 'gainst one, and never ceasing -- ...
The moon is full this winter night; The stars are clear, though few; And every window glistens bright, With leaves ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
I Hot through Troy's ruin Menelaus broke To Priam's palace, sword in hand, to sate On that adulterous whore a ...
The year begins with war. Our bombs fall day and night, Hour after hour, by death Abroad appeasing wrath, Folly, ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
I would I were a careless child, Still dwelling in my highland cave, Or roaming through the dusky wild, Or ...
The roses of Love glad the garden of life, Though nurtur'd 'mid weeds dropping pestilent dew, Till Time crops the ...
O! had my Fate been join'd with thine, As once this pledge appear'd a token, These follies had not, then, ...
It's buried at a distance, on my insistence, buried. Weather's severe there, which it will not mind. I miss it. ...
When, by decree of the supreme power, The Poet appears in this annoyed world, His mother, blasphemous out of horror ...
I AM as lovely as a dream in stone, And this my heart where each finds death in turn, Inspires ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
I. Gr-r-r---there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God's blood, would ...
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