Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. (William Cowper Poems)
SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess ...
SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess ...
ARGUMENT.Fingal, in his voyage to Lochlin, whither he had been invited by Starno, the father of Agandecca, touched at Berrathon ...
THERE in his room, whene'er the moon looks in,And silvers now a shell, and now a fin,And o'er his chart ...
The heavens, O Lord! Thy power proclaim,And the earth echoes back Thy name;Ten thousand voices speak Thy might,And day to ...
Love has its secrets, joy has its revealings.How shall I speak of that which love has hid?If my beloved shall ...
The soul of a nation awaking,-High visions of daybreak,-I saw;A people renewed; the forsakingOf sin, and the worship of law.Sing, ...
White bird of the tempest! O beautiful thing,With the bosom of snow, and the motionless wing,Now sweeping the billow, now ...
Why standest Thou from us afar,O Lord? Why hidest Thy face?In need and sore trouble we are.Why standest Thou from ...
Rendete a gli occhi miei.Give back unto mine eyes, ye fount and rill, Those streams, not yours, that are so full ...
My desires are many and my cry is pitiful,but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals;and this strong mercy ...
TO APHRODITEI.Oh, thou most lovely and most beautiful!- Wherever cooingly thy white doves lull Thy bright eyes to soft slumber; ...
IBless the Lord, O my soul!O Lord, my God!Very great hast Thou been.Splendour and majestyThou hast put on as a ...
WHAT art thou, and what hidest thou, Thou veil of fair material sense, So thin, of baffling permanence? What art ...
SERENE, indifferent of Fate,Thou sittest at the Western Gate;Upon thy height, so lately won,Still slant the banners of the sun;Thou ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Christ inviting, and the church answering the invitation. SS 2:14-17. [Hark! the Redeemer from on high Sweetly invites his fav'rites ...
My desires are many and my cry is pitiful, but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals; and this ...
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