Praise Of Creation (George Moses Horton Poems)
Creation fires my tongue! Nature thy anthems raise; And spread the universal song Of thy Creator's praise! Heaven's chief delight was Man Before Creation's birth-- Ordained ...
Creation fires my tongue! Nature thy anthems raise; And spread the universal song Of thy Creator's praise! Heaven's chief delight was Man Before Creation's birth-- Ordained ...
E'en John the Baptist did not know Who Christ the Lord could be, And bade his own disciples go The strange event to ...
Sad Moscow, thy fate do I see,Fire! fire! in the city all cry;Like quails from the eagle all flee,Escape in ...
With tears I leave these academic bowers, And cease to cull the scientific flowers; With tears I hail the fair ...
When on life's ocean first I spread my sail,I then implored a mild auspicious gale;And from the slippery strand I ...
Blest Babe! it at length has withdrawn, The ...
Though with an angel's tongue I set on fire the congregations all, 'Tis but a brazen bell that I have ...
Hail happy pair from whom such raptures rise,On whom I gaze with pleasure and surprize;From thy bright rays the gloom ...
As smoke from a volcano soars in the air, The soul of man discontent mounts from a sigh, Exhaled as ...
On heaven's ethereal plain, Where hostile rage ambition first begun, When the arch rebel strove himself to reign And take ...
So teach me to regard my day, How small a point my life appears; One gleam to death the whole ...
I feel myself in needOf the inspiring strains of ancient lore,My heart to lift, my empty mind to feed,And all ...
'Tis the voice of my sister at home, Resign'd to the treasures above, Inviting the strangers to come, And feast ...
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