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 Joy & Excitement (18 Poems)
To A Friend (John Pierpont Poems)
Friend of my dark and solitary hour,When spectres walk abroad, and ghosts have power,To thee I look to dissipate the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Washingtonia (John Pierpont Poems)
Come join the Washingtonians,Ye young men bold and strong,And with a proud and cheerful zeal,Come, help the cause along.O that ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions VI (John Pierpont Poems)
Weary travellers are we,And our word is briefly spoken;We must lean on charity,For our "stay and staff" is broken.We are ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fourth of July Ode (John Pierpont Poems)
With patriotic glee,Columbia's jubileeOnce more we hail:Let nothing damp our joys—The Temp'rance pledge destroysThe last foe that annoys.—Quail, monster, quail!To ...
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 ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions V (John Pierpont Poems)
Faint, bleeding, of his robes bereft,"Ready to perish" by the way,'Mid craggy wilds by robbers left,A lonely Jewish traveller lay.A ...
A Health To Dear Woman (John Pierpont Poems)
A health to dear woman! she bids us untwineFrom the cup it encircles the fast-clinging vine:But her cheek in its ...
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 ...
Sons of Liberty (John Pierpont Poems)
Sons of Liberty, arise!Who your country's glory prize,Spread your banner to the skies!Wake from apathy!Join the Washingtonian Band,Firmly to your ...
Danger Of Sensual Pleasures (John Pierpont Poems)
When in the light of faith divineWe look on things below,Honor, and gold, and sensual joy,How vain and dang'rous too.The ...
Hymn (John Pierpont Poems)
O! shun the bowl—as thou wouldst leaveThe poison'd spot where reptiles crawl;Lest widow'd hearts for thee should grieve—For thee untimely ...
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 ...
Welcome Brothers! For A Cold Water Army (John Pierpont Poems)
Welcome, brothers, welcome here!Cheerful are our hearts to-day,Tell us, we would gladly hear,How our cause speeds on its way.Brothers, then ...