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 ...
Why does the eye, with greater pleasure, restOn the proud oak, in vernal honors drest,When sultry gales, that to his ...
Years roll along; and, as they glide awayIn silent lapse, on every New-Year's day'T is claimed by custom that we ...
This is a very pleasant sight,—The Moslems thronging to the squareThat lies before their house of prayer!Through narrow streets, that ...
There was, some eighteen years or more ago,A young man, a parishioner of mine,Whose name was Willard. There are Willards ...
Friend of my dark and solitary hour,When spectres walk abroad, and ghosts have power,To thee I look to dissipate the ...
"If the pulpit be silent, whenever or wherever there may be a sinner, bloody with this guilt, within the hearing ...
Jerusalem, Jerusalem,How glad should I have been,Could I, in my lone wanderings,Thine aged walls have seen!—Could I have gazed upon ...
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 ...
The Pilgrim Fathers,—where are they?—The waves that brought them o'erStill roll in the bay, and throw their sprayAs they break ...
While yet she lived, she walked aloneAmong these shades. A voice divineWhispered,—"This spot shall be thine own;Here shall thy wasting ...
He sleeps in peace! Death's cold eclipseHis radiant eyes hath shrouded o'er,And slander's poison, from the lipsOf woman, on his ...
'Tis but a drop" the father said,And gave it to his son;But little did he think a workOf death was ...
Our days of noise and strife are past,We drink, we drink no more;We're happy now, as kings at last,We drink, ...
Break forth in song, ye trees,As, through your tops, the breezeSweeps from the sea!For, on its rushing wings,To your cool ...
When the trump of FameLoud sounding Freedom's call, Freedom's call,Bids in Freedom's name,To fight or bravely fall, bravely fall,Bold the ...
Break forth in song, ye trees!As through your tops the breezeSweeps from the sea!For, on its rushing wings,To your cool ...
Mighty One, whose name is holy,Thou wilt save thy work alive;And the spirit of the lowlyThou wilt visit and revive.What ...
Long, in a nameless grave,Bones of the true and brave!Have ye reposed.This day, our hands have dressed,This day, our prayers ...
Before thy throne we boast the nameOf Freemen:—God, thy frown is just.Immortals, break your bonds of shame!Arise, inebriates, from the ...
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 ...
Let the trump of FameNow to their memory swell,Who, in Freedom's name,Fought and bravely fell!On the heroes moved,With death on ...
Some love to roamWhere the glasses foam,And the poison circles free—But a chosen band,In a rescued land,And a Temperance Life ...
Oh Thou, whose never-sleeping eyeRegards us, night and day,Whose watchful care is ever nigh,To keep us in thy way;We praise ...
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