Moslem Worship (John Pierpont Poems)
This is a very pleasant sight,—The Moslems thronging to the squareThat lies before their house of prayer!Through narrow streets, that ...
John Pierpont Poems on God (70 Poems)
Hymns and Odes for Temperance Occasions XIV: The Drunkard’s Funeral (John Pierpont Poems)
There was, some eighteen years or more ago,A young man, a parishioner of mine,Whose name was Willard. There are Willards ...
A Sunday Night At Sea (John Pierpont Poems)
How sadly hath this Sabbath day,O God, been spent by me,Cribbed close beneath a narrow deck,Washed by the frequent sea,An ...
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 ...
A Word From A Petitioner (John Pierpont Poems)
What! our petitions spurned! The prayerOf thousands,—tens of thousands,—castUnheard, beneath your Speaker's chair!But ye will hear us, first or last.The ...
Jerusalem (John Pierpont Poems)
Jerusalem, Jerusalem,How glad should I have been,Could I, in my lone wanderings,Thine aged walls have seen!—Could I have gazed upon ...
The Gag (John Pierpont Poems)
Ho! children of the granite hillsThat bristle with the hackmatack,And sparkle with the crystal rillsThat hurry toward the Merrimack,Dam up ...
My Father, Mother, Brothers, Sisters (John Pierpont Poems)
They are all gone, but one.—A daughter and a sonWere, from my parents, early taken away;And my own childhood's joyWas ...
The Fugitive Slave’s Apostrophe To The North Star (John Pierpont Poems)
Star of the North! though night winds driftThe fleecy drapery of the skyBetween thy lamp and me, I lift,Yea, lift ...
My Child (John Pierpont Poems)
I cannot make him dead! His fair sunshiny head Is ever bounding round my study-chair; Yet, when my eyes, now ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions XI (John Pierpont Poems)
Loud o'er thy savage child,O God, the night-wind roared,As, houseless, in the wildHe bowed him and adored.Thou saw'st him there,As ...
Hymns For Dedication IV (John Pierpont Poems)
To God, to God alone,This temple have we reared;To God, who holds a throneUnshaken and unshared.Sole King of Heaven,Who 'st ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions VIII (John Pierpont Poems)
Shall that old chamber be forgot,Where first the light divineShone on our infant Sunday School,So pleasant, but lang syne?'T was ...
To Abolitionist (John Pierpont Poems)
Servants of God most high,Who on his word rely,By ancient seers and holy prophets spoken—That all the chains that gallThe ...
Hymns and Odes for Temperance Occasions I (John Pierpont Poems)
Wake! wake! friends of your kind!There's a Demon, a Demon, abroad!Ye'll scent him in every breath of the wind;—Around him ...
Sunday Morning At Cambridge (John Pierpont Poems)
It had rained in the night; but the morning's birthWas as calm and still as even;The heralds of day were ...
Her Chosen Spot (John Pierpont Poems)
While yet she lived, she walked aloneAmong these shades. A voice divineWhispered,—"This spot shall be thine own;Here shall thy wasting ...
Song of John Hawkins and Comrades (John Pierpont Poems)
Hurrah! hurrah! we've burst the chain;O God! how long it bound us!We run! we leap! O God, againThy light, thy ...
Hymns and Odes VII (John Pierpont Poems)
Two hundred years!—two hundred years!How much of human power and pride,What glorious hopes, what gloomy fears,Have sunk beneath their noiseless ...
Hymns For Dedication XI (John Pierpont Poems)
Knowledge and Virtue! sister powers,Who guard and grace a Christian state,Better than bulwarks, walls, or towers,To you this hall we ...
The Temperance Crew (John Pierpont Poems)
Luff up, boys! clew up, and furl every sail;Clear the cables—let all fly, and clew;Though rocks are a-lee, she will ...
Hymns and Odes for Temperance Occasions VI (John Pierpont Poems)
Dash to the floor that bowl!Dare not its sweets to sip!There's peril to the soul,If once it touch the lip.Why ...
Hymns and Odes for Temperance Occasions V (John Pierpont Poems)
In Eden's green retreats,A water-brook,—that playedBetween soft, mossy seats,Beneath a plane-tree's shade,Whose rustling leavesDanced o'er its brink,—Was Adam's drink,And also ...
Hymns and Odes for Temperance Occasions III (John Pierpont Poems)
Thou sparkling bowl! thou sparkling bowl!Though lips of bards thy brim may press,And eyes of beauty o'er thee roll,And song ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions XII (John Pierpont Poems)
Not with a conqueror's songThy courts, O God, we throng,For battles gained;No cannon's sulphurous throat,No trumpet, gives its note,No banners ...
Fill A Bumper of Water (John Pierpont Poems)
Fill a bumper of water that's pure from the spring,Bright sparkling and clear as the glass,And with rapture the joyous ...
Prayer for the Slave (John Pierpont Poems)
Almighty God! thou GiverOf all our sunny plains,That stretch from sea to river,Hear'st thou thy children's chains?Seest thou the snappered ...
Hymns For Dedication VIII (John Pierpont Poems)
Tossed on the billows of the main,And doomed from zone to zone to roam,The seaman toiled for others' gain,But, for ...
Many An Eye With Sorrow Wet (John Pierpont Poems)
Stranger, there is bending o'er theeMany an eye with sorrow wet;All our stricken hearts deplore thee;Who, that knew thee, can ...
Hymns For Dedication III (John Pierpont Poems)
When thy Son, O God, was sleeping,In death's rocky prison bound,When his faithful ones were weeping,And the guards were watching ...