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 Sadness (26 Poems)
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 ...
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 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 ...
My Father, Mother, Brothers, Sisters (John Pierpont Poems)
They are all gone, but one.—A daughter and a sonWere, from my parents, early taken away;And my own childhood's joyWas ...
My Child (John Pierpont Poems)
I cannot make him dead! His fair sunshiny head Is ever bounding round my study-chair; Yet, when my eyes, now ...
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 ...
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 For Dedication VI (John Pierpont Poems)
Thou, who on the whirlwind ridest,At whose word the thunder roars,Who, in majesty, presidestO'er the oceans and their shores;From those ...
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 ...
Memory Of The Past (John Pierpont Poems)
Can we forget the gloomy time,When Bacchus ruled the day,—When dissipation, sloth and crime,Bore undisputed sway?The time—the time—the gloomy timeThe ...
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 ...
The Father’s Reformation (John Pierpont Poems)
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 ...
Sons of Liberty (John Pierpont Poems)
Sons of Liberty, arise!Who your country's glory prize,Spread your banner to the skies!Wake from apathy!Join the Washingtonian Band,Firmly to your ...
Exhortation To Be Temperate (John Pierpont Poems)
Oh! what are the pangs that result from excess,In quaffing the juice of the vine;Tho' the bosom may feel them ...
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 ...
Death of Charles Follen (John Pierpont Poems)
O, not for thee weep;—we weepFor her, whose lone and long caress,And widow's tears, from fountains deep,Fall on the early ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions VII (John Pierpont Poems)
Father of lights! we bless each rayShot from thy throne to lead the blind;With song we hail the holy dayThat's ...
Away The Bowl (John Pierpont Poems)
Our grateful hearts with temperance burn,Away, away the bowl,From dram shops all, our steps we turn,Away, away the bowl;Farewell to ...
Thanks For Temperance Light (John Pierpont Poems)
We thank Thee that, amid the throngOf ransom'd drunkards, we can stand,And praise Thee that the temp'rance starE'er rose on ...
Hymns for Communion VIII (John Pierpont Poems)
Our Father! we approach thy board,As children, that would be forgiven;Remembering him, thy Son, who pouredHis blood, to seal our ...
Begone Vile Rum (John Pierpont Poems)
Begone, vile rum, I prithee begone from me,Begone, vile rum, thou and I shall never agree,Long time hast thou destroyed ...