The Tocsin (John Pierpont Poems)
"If the pulpit be silent, whenever or wherever there may be a sinner, bloody with this guilt, within the hearing ...
"If the pulpit be silent, whenever or wherever there may be a sinner, bloody with this guilt, within the hearing ...
I cannot make him dead! His fair sunshiny head Is ever bounding round my study-chair; Yet, when my eyes, now ...
Was it the chime of a tiny bell,That came so sweet to my dreaming ear,—Like the silvery tones of a ...
Servants of God most high,Who on his word rely,By ancient seers and holy prophets spoken—That all the chains that gallThe ...
Two hundred years!—two hundred years!How much of human power and pride,What glorious hopes, what gloomy fears,Have sunk beneath their noiseless ...
Oh! water for me—bright water for me!And wine for the tremulous debauchee!It cooleth the brow, it cooleth the brain,It maketh ...
A health to dear woman! she bids us untwineFrom the cup it encircles the fast-clinging vine:But her cheek in its ...
"And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives."—Matth. xxvi. 30.There's something sweet in ...
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