Drink Of This Cup (John Pierpont Poems)
Drink of this cup! 'tis that which erstOur pilgrim fathers quaffed,When here they raised their dwellings first:There 's safety in ...
Drink of this cup! 'tis that which erstOur pilgrim fathers quaffed,When here they raised their dwellings first:There 's safety in ...
THE SWEETNESSE OF RETIREMENT,OR The Happinesse of a Private Life.The Segregation.THE ARGUMENT. True Blisse! Thou know'st but Few, to Few ...
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD. Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,In pity's strains, the ...
DAUGHTER of Exercise and calm Content,By Temperance nourish'd in the shady vale,Where Dian's nymphs resort with bows unbent,To taste the ...
On the sea of life they floated,Brothers twain in manhood's pride,And the good ship "Temperance" bore them,Safely o'er the stormy ...
I said—''Tis very late we meet;'A guest long since has filled each seat 'About my hearth; yet rest'A little while ...
Its quiet graves were made for peace till Gabriel blows his horn. Those wise old elms could hear ...
WHAT are the choicest blessings heav'n bestows?Or mortal man through life's short journey knows?Sure Health and Liberty combin'd may formThat ...
The drunkard's sin, excess in wine, Which reason drowns, and health destroys,As yet no failing is of thine, Dear Jim; ...
Each day that I live I am persuaded anew,A maxim I long have believed in, is true.Each day I grow ...
Woman, sitting at your ease,In the midst of luxuries,Bound by chains of selfishness,With no aim but "how to dress,"Does the ...
Hail! morning vowed to immemorial joys.First child of May! sacred to mirthful sports,To wine, and jest, and song,And to the ...
AWAKE! my muse, expand thy gentle wing,And in thy flight the Morn's bright beauties scan;Nor e'er forget in grateful lay ...
A POWER is stirring-a broad light has shone Amid the nation's-in the wilderness Of ...
You mustn't groom an Arab with a file. You hadn't ought to tension-spring a mule.You couldn't push a brumby fifty ...
Grace, triumphant in the throne, Scorns a rival, reigns alone; Come and bow beneath her sway; Cast your idol works ...
Let Ramah rejoice with Cochineal. Let Gaba rejoice with the Prickly Pear, which the Cochineal feeds on. Let Nebo rejoice ...
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
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