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 ...
How sadly hath this Sabbath day,O God, been spent by me,Cribbed close beneath a narrow deck,Washed by the frequent sea,An ...
"If the pulpit be silent, whenever or wherever there may be a sinner, bloody with this guilt, within the hearing ...
Star of the North! though night winds driftThe fleecy drapery of the skyBetween thy lamp and me, I lift,Yea, lift ...
The Liberty Bell—the Liberty Bell—The Tocsin of Freedom and Slavery's knell,That a whole long year has idle hung,Again is wagging ...
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 ...
Luff up, boys! clew up, and furl every sail;Clear the cables—let all fly, and clew;Though rocks are a-lee, she will ...
The fatherless and widow, Lord,Find hope and comfort in this word,Which in thy Holy Book they see,—"Leave all thy fatherless ...
Break forth in song, ye trees!As through your tops the breezeSweeps from the sea!For, on its rushing wings,To your cool ...
Stranger, there is bending o'er theeMany an eye with sorrow wet;All our stricken hearts deplore thee;Who, that knew thee, can ...
When thy Son, O God, was sleeping,In death's rocky prison bound,When his faithful ones were weeping,And the guards were watching ...
Long, in a nameless grave,Bones of the true and brave!Have ye reposed.This day, our hands have dressed,This day, our prayers ...
To Thee, beneath whose eyeEach circling centuryObedient rolls,Our nation, in its prime,Looked with a faith sublime,And trusted, in "the timeThat ...
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 ...
Stand! the ground's your own, my braves!Will ye give it up to slaves?Will ye look for greener graves? Hope ye mercy ...
Stand! the ground's your own, my braves!Will ye give it up to slaves?Will ye look for greener graves?Hope ye mercy ...
To Thee, O God, in humble trust,Our hearts their grateful incense burnFor this thy word, "Thou art of dust,And unto ...
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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