On the Love of God (Caroline Fry Poems)
There was a slave, who, born to days unbless'd,Drew from his parent blood the hard decreeOf ceaseless and unwilling servitude.His ...
There was a slave, who, born to days unbless'd,Drew from his parent blood the hard decreeOf ceaseless and unwilling servitude.His ...
Humility, said Lena, as she drewA well-worn glove upon her sun-burnt hand,"Is the best ornament a Christian knows."I think not ...
'Tis past—and the recording angel bearsTo Heaven the record of another year—Another year of nature's and of mine!Nature has known ...
And is it so? Look at creation round!See you how fair, how beautiful it is,How form'd to bless, how exquisite ...
Farewell! —and if for ever —what a doubtStrikes through the soul at that tremendous thought!'Tis not the world's for ever ...
POOR child of affliction! I heard thee repine,And my heart beat with sorrow responsive to thine;And one who has long ...
You ask me why I bend the kneeIn attitude of prayer,If I believe myself ordain'dEternal glory's heir?List, and I'll tell ...
O YOU who at lighter afflictions repine,Arrest your complainings and list ye to mine,And you who can sorrow for every ...
Is it not thine, O God, this passing world? Is it not thine to give it at thy will?But ...
Say, can they part us, Love, whose hard decreeForbids my heart to breathe one thought to thee?Will chilling absence leave ...
WHEN hours and moments are rapidly passing, And the things that have been are no more,'Tis pleasing to trace, ...
FORSAKEN, desolate,Ah! where is he, The God Eternal, whom our fathers served?A God whose name his children vainly boast, ...
For whom is the harp of Judah strung,That silent erst on the willows hung?Whence are the stranger sounds that creptO'er ...
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