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 ...
How sadly hath this Sabbath day,O God, been spent by me,Cribbed close beneath a narrow deck,Washed by the frequent sea,An ...
Father spare that cup,Thy daughter's feelings spareIt stirs thy passions up,And fills me with despair.Husband! spare that glass,It breaks my ...
Oh! what are the pangs that result from excess,In quaffing the juice of the vine;Tho' the bosom may feel them ...
The drunkard's home shall soon be sweetIf he will but abstain;With needful comforts, all replete,To soothe each minor pain.The cheering ...
Strike from that laborer's limbs his chain!In the fierce sun the iron burns!By night, it fills his dreams with pain;By ...
Stretch'd on a heap of straw—his bed!—The dying drunkard lies;His joyless wife supports his head,And to console him tries:His weeping ...
O, Thou from whom all gifts proceed,A blessing now dispense;And give us, Lord, with power to plead,The cause of temperance.With ...
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