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 Nature (18 Poems)
Jerusalem (John Pierpont Poems)
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
The Old Oaken Bucket (John Pierpont Poems)
How dear to my heart are the days of my childhood,When fond recollection presents to my viewThe orchard, the meadow, ...
Hymns and Odes for Temperance Occasions III (John Pierpont Poems)
Thou sparkling bowl! thou sparkling bowl!Though lips of bards thy brim may press,And eyes of beauty o'er thee roll,And song ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Garden of Gethsemane (John Pierpont Poems)
O'er Kedron's stream, and Salem's height.And Olivet's brown steep,Moves the majestic queen of night,And throws from heaven her silver light,And ...
Hymns for Communion IV (John Pierpont Poems)
O'er Kedron's stream, and Salem's height,And Olivet's brown steep,Rolls the majestic queen of night,And showers from heaven her silver light,And ...
Hymns for Communion III (John Pierpont Poems)
"O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me;nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou ...
My Country ‘Tis Of Thee (John Pierpont Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Prayer Of The Abolitionist (John Pierpont Poems)
We ask not that the slave should lie,As lies his master, at his ease,Beneath a silken canopy,Or in the shade ...