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 ...
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 ...
I cannot make him dead! His fair sunshiny head Is ever bounding round my study-chair; Yet, when my eyes, now ...
Luff up, boys! clew up, and furl every sail;Clear the cables—let all fly, and clew;Though rocks are a-lee, she will ...
Our days of noise and strife are past,We drink, we drink no more;We're happy now, as kings at last,We drink, ...
I've signed the pledge! It is the bondBetween my God and me—'Tis done!—I've broke th' enchanted wand;I breathe—I live—I'm free!Darkness, ...
Farewell to the cup, we have tarried too long,Where the juice of the grape adds its witch'ry to song.And the ...
O, no, I'll never drink again,The cup I'll never take;My lips are now forbid to tasteE'en for old friendship's sake.From ...
O! shun the bowl!—the draught beware,Whose smile but mocks the lips of men:When foaming high with waters rare—O! never touch ...
We praise thee—if one rescued soul,While the past year prolonged its flight,Turned shuddering, from the poisonous bowl,To health, and liberty, ...
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