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 Man (44 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Liberty Bell (John Pierpont Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
The Chain (John Pierpont Poems)
Is it his daily toil that wringsFrom the slave's bosom that deep sigh?Is it his niggard fare that bringsThe tear ...
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 ...
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 ...
Song For A Cold Water Army (John Pierpont Poems)
Shall e'er cold water be forgot,When we sit down to dine?O no, my friends, for is it notPour'd out by ...
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 ...
A Sister’s Thoughts Over A Brother’s Grave (John Pierpont Poems)
He sleeps in peace! Death's cold eclipseHis radiant eyes hath shrouded o'er,And slander's poison, from the lipsOf woman, on his ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Come All Ye Young Teetotallers (John Pierpont Poems)
Come all ye young teetotallers—Come with us while we goTo fight with old king Alcohol,A brave and mortal foe.Then rouse, ...
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 ...
The Plague (John Pierpont Poems)
"The Plague! the Plague! bring out your dead."Through all the land the cryRang shrilly forth. "We bring our dead!"Was murmured ...
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 ...
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 and Odes for Temperance Occasions IV (John Pierpont Poems)
How long, O God, how longMust thy pure eyes beholdThis fair world blasted by the wrong,Man does to man for ...
Prayer of The Christian (John Pierpont Poems)
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 ...
The Vow Of The Reclaimed (John Pierpont Poems)
Let others quaff the ruby wine,I'll drink from gushing springs,Nor bow again at folly's shrine,For misery it brings.I'll seek no ...