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 ...
This is a very pleasant sight,—The Moslems thronging to the squareThat lies before their house of prayer!Through narrow streets, that ...
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 ...
Star of the North! though night winds driftThe fleecy drapery of the skyBetween thy lamp and me, I lift,Yea, lift ...
The Liberty Bell—the Liberty Bell—The Tocsin of Freedom and Slavery's knell,That a whole long year has idle hung,Again is wagging ...
Is there, in all the skies, a starThat envies not the Queen of Heaven,As nightly, on her silver car,Through their ...
"Grace is deceitful, and beauty vain."—Solomon.O, say not, wisest of all the kingsThat have risen on Israel's throne to reign,Say ...
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 ...
His falchion flashed along the Nile;—His hosts he led through Alpine snows;—O'er Moscow's towers, that shook the while,His eagle flag ...
With thy pure dews and rains,Wash out, O God, the stains,From Afric's shore;And, while her palm trees bud,Let not her ...
With trump, and pipe, and viol chords,And song, the full assembly bringsIts tribute to the Lord of lords,Its homage to ...
No curtains drawn, nor tent, nor shed,Shut out the over-arching skies,When Jesus, in his manger bed,First turned to heaven his ...
My country! 'tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty—Of thee I sing,Land where my fathers died;Land of the pilgrim's pride;From every ...
Away with melancholy,Let all our voices ring,—We've given up our folly,So merrily, merrily sing.Too long on land and ocean,We've served ...
We praise thee—if one rescued soul,While the past year prolonged its flight,Turned shuddering, from the poisonous bowl,To health, and liberty, ...
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