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 ...
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 ...
How sadly hath this Sabbath day,O God, been spent by me,Cribbed close beneath a narrow deck,Washed by the frequent sea,An ...
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 ...
Jerusalem, Jerusalem,How glad should I have been,Could I, in my lone wanderings,Thine aged walls have seen!—Could I have gazed upon ...
They are all gone, but one.—A daughter and a sonWere, from my parents, early taken away;And my own childhood's joyWas ...
I cannot make him dead! His fair sunshiny head Is ever bounding round my study-chair; Yet, when my eyes, now ...
Loud o'er thy savage child,O God, the night-wind roared,As, houseless, in the wildHe bowed him and adored.Thou saw'st him there,As ...
It had rained in the night; but the morning's birthWas as calm and still as even;The heralds of day were ...
To E.C.S. to the memory of her sisterDear sister! we were little girlsWhen we were standing by,With eyes brim full ...
Thou, who on the whirlwind ridest,At whose word the thunder roars,Who, in majesty, presidestO'er the oceans and their shores;From those ...
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 ...
Day of glory! welcome day!Freedom's banners greet thy ray;See! how cheerfully they playWith thy morning breeze,On the rocks where pilgrims ...
The winds and waves were roaring;The Pilgrims met for prayer;And here, their God adoring,They stood, in open air.When breaking day ...
The winds and waves were roaring;The Pilgrims met for prayer;And here, their God adoring,They stood, in open air.When breaking day ...
On this stone, now laid with prayer,Let thy church rise, strong and fair;Ever, Lord, thy name be known,Where we 've ...
O, is not this a holy spot!'T is the high place of Freedom's birth!God of our fathers! is it notThe ...
With trump, and pipe, and viol chords,And song, the full assembly bringsIts tribute to the Lord of lords,Its homage to ...
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 ...
Our Father! we approach thy board,As children, that would be forgiven;Remembering him, thy Son, who pouredHis blood, to seal our ...
God of mercy, do thou neverFrom our offering turn away,But command a blessing everOn the memory of this day.Light and ...
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