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 Night (34 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 ...
A Birthday In Scio (John Pierpont Poems)
I landed there on the day of my birth,—The day that the city was swept from the earth;Though thirteen years ...
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 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 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 ...
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 For Dedication IV (John Pierpont Poems)
To God, to God alone,This temple have we reared;To God, who holds a throneUnshaken and unshared.Sole King of Heaven,Who 'st ...
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 Temperance Occasions IX (John Pierpont Poems)
Lift up, lift up the standard,And plant it near the well!And, gathered underneath its folds,A choral anthem swell!The anthem that ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions VI (John Pierpont Poems)
Weary travellers are we,And our word is briefly spoken;We must lean on charity,For our "stay and staff" is broken.We are ...
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 ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions III (John Pierpont Poems)
To the Emerald Isle, where our kindred are dwelling,And where the remains of our forefathers sleep,Our eyes turn to-day, with ...
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 ...
Water!–Oh! Water For Me (John Pierpont Poems)
Oh! water for me—bright water for me!And wine for the tremulous debauchee!It cooleth the brow, it cooleth the brain,It maketh ...
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 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 ...
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 X (John Pierpont Poems)
Long, in a nameless grave,Bones of the true and brave!Have ye reposed.This day, our hands have dressed,This day, our prayers ...
Hymns for Communion V (John Pierpont Poems)
"And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives."—Matth. xxvi. 30.There's something sweet in ...
Hymns and Odes IX (John Pierpont Poems)
To Thee, beneath whose eyeEach circling centuryObedient rolls,Our nation, in its prime,Looked with a faith sublime,And trusted, in "the timeThat ...
Temperance Rally (John Pierpont Poems)
We have entered the field, and are ready to fight,Against the rum demon from morning till night,The groggeries, too, we're ...
Hymns and Odes for Temperance Occasions XII (John Pierpont Poems)
Source of being, Holy Father,With the day's returning light,Round our board with thanks we gather,For the mercies of the night:Mercies ...
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 ...
The Light of Temperance (John Pierpont Poems)
When first I saw the gleaming crestOf temp'rance's silver star,I watch'd it, till its radiance blestIllum'd the world afar:It rose ...