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 Light (46 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
“Passing Away” — A Dream (John Pierpont Poems)
Was it the chime of a tiny bell,That came so sweet to my dreaming ear,—Like the silvery tones of a ...
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 ...
Lydia (John Pierpont Poems)
I saw her mother's eye of loveAs gently on her rest,As falls the light of evening's sunUpon a lily's breast.And ...
Hymns and Odes IV [The Pilgrim Fathers] (John Pierpont Poems)
The Pilgrim Fathers,—where are they?—The waves that brought them o'erStill roll in the bay, and throw their sprayAs they break ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For The Album of Miss Caroline C— (John Pierpont Poems)
"Grace is deceitful, and beauty vain."—Solomon.O, say not, wisest of all the kingsThat have risen on Israel's throne to reign,Say ...
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 ...
Hymns and Odes I (John Pierpont Poems)
On the birth-day of Time, the young monarch of lightWith his beams waked from slumber the virgin creation;—So, dispelling the ...
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 ...
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 VII (John Pierpont Poems)
We sing the praise of Water;Come, every son and daughterOf Freedom's land!With such a theme before us,With God's great shield ...
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 and Odes VIII (John Pierpont Poems)
Break forth in song, ye trees,As, through your tops, the breezeSweeps from the sea!For, on its rushing wings,To your cool ...
Centennial Ode (John Pierpont Poems)
Break forth in song, ye trees!As through your tops the breezeSweeps from the sea!For, on its rushing wings,To your cool ...
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 ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions II (John Pierpont Poems)
Mighty One, whose name is holy,Thou wilt save thy work alive;And the spirit of the lowlyThou wilt visit and revive.What ...
Christmas Hymn (John Pierpont Poems)
No moon hung o'er the sleeping earth,But, on their thrones of light,The stars, that sang ere morning's birth,Filled the blue ...