The Portrait (John Pierpont Poems)
Why does the eye, with greater pleasure, restOn the proud oak, in vernal honors drest,When sultry gales, that to his ...
John Pierpont Poems on Heaven (30 Poems)
News-Carrier (John Pierpont Poems)
Years roll along; and, as they glide awayIn silent lapse, on every New-Year's day'T is claimed by custom that we ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Temperance Occasions IX (John Pierpont Poems)
Lift up, lift up the standard,And plant it near the well!And, gathered underneath its folds,A choral anthem swell!The anthem that ...
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 ...
Hymns and Odes II (John Pierpont Poems)
Hark! 'tis the children of Washington, pouringThe full tide of song to the conqueror's praise,Whose brows our young eagle, triumphantly ...
For The Album of Miss E. L. B– (John Pierpont Poems)
Is there, in all the skies, a starThat envies not the Queen of Heaven,As nightly, on her silver car,Through their ...
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 ...
Awake, Awake, Take The Pledge (John Pierpont Poems)
Awake! awake! and take the pledge,Without a fear or doubt!'T will weave around your heart a hedge,To keep the demon ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions III (John Pierpont Poems)
To the Emerald Isle, where our kindred are dwelling,And where the remains of our forefathers sleep,Our eyes turn to-day, with ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Water!–Oh! Water For Me (John Pierpont Poems)
Oh! water for me—bright water for me!And wine for the tremulous debauchee!It cooleth the brow, it cooleth the brain,It maketh ...
Hymn For The First of August (John Pierpont Poems)
Where Britannia's emerald islesGem the Caribbean sea,And an endless summer smiles,Lo! the negro thrall is free!Yet not on Columbia's plains,Hath ...
Hymns for Communion V (John Pierpont Poems)
"And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives."—Matth. xxvi. 30.There's something sweet in ...
Hymns and Odes IX (John Pierpont Poems)
To Thee, beneath whose eyeEach circling centuryObedient rolls,Our nation, in its prime,Looked with a faith sublime,And trusted, in "the timeThat ...
Hymns For Dedication I (John Pierpont Poems)
O Thou, to whom in ancient timeThe lyre of Hebrew bards was strung,Whom kings adored in song sublime,And prophets praised ...
Hymns and Odes for Temperance Occasions XI (John Pierpont Poems)
Let the trump of FameBe blown in praise of all,Who, in Virtue's name,Fight or bravely fall!On the heroes move,Though hosts ...
The Light of Temperance (John Pierpont Poems)
When first I saw the gleaming crestOf temp'rance's silver star,I watch'd it, till its radiance blestIllum'd the world afar:It rose ...
The Cup For Me (John Pierpont Poems)
The drink that's in the drunkard's bowlIs not the drink for me,It kills his body and his soul,How sad a ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions VII (John Pierpont Poems)
Father of lights! we bless each rayShot from thy throne to lead the blind;With song we hail the holy dayThat's ...
Hymns for Communion I (John Pierpont Poems)
Break ye the bread, and pour the wine,As ye have seen your Master do;This body and this blood of mineIs ...
Temperance Hymn (John Pierpont Poems)
From the mountain top and valley,See! the banner streaming high!While the sons of freedom rally,To the widow's lonely cry.Sisters weeping,Bid ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions I (John Pierpont Poems)
I praise the God, who, while I keptMy watch beside the grave,Where, cold and dead, my father slept,Where, drowned in ...
Hymns For Dedication V (John Pierpont Poems)
To Thee, O God, in humble trust,Our hearts their grateful incense burnFor this thy word, "Thou art of dust,And unto ...
Hymns for Communion VIII (John Pierpont Poems)
Our Father! we approach thy board,As children, that would be forgiven;Remembering him, thy Son, who pouredHis blood, to seal our ...