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 ...
Years roll along; and, as they glide awayIn silent lapse, on every New-Year's day'T is claimed by custom that we ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hark! 'tis the children of Washington, pouringThe full tide of song to the conqueror's praise,Whose brows our young eagle, triumphantly ...
Wake! wake! friends of your kind!There's a Demon, a Demon, abroad!Ye'll scent him in every breath of the wind;—Around him ...
"Grace is deceitful, and beauty vain."—Solomon.O, say not, wisest of all the kingsThat have risen on Israel's throne to reign,Say ...
On the birth-day of Time, the young monarch of lightWith his beams waked from slumber the virgin creation;—So, dispelling the ...
Hurrah! hurrah! we've burst the chain;O God! how long it bound us!We run! we leap! O God, againThy light, thy ...
He sleeps in peace! Death's cold eclipseHis radiant eyes hath shrouded o'er,And slander's poison, from the lipsOf woman, on his ...
Break forth in song, ye trees,As, through your tops, the breezeSweeps from the sea!For, on its rushing wings,To your cool ...
Tossed on the billows of the main,And doomed from zone to zone to roam,The seaman toiled for others' gain,But, for ...
When the trump of FameLoud sounding Freedom's call, Freedom's call,Bids in Freedom's name,To fight or bravely fall, bravely fall,Bold the ...
Spirit of Wisdom and of Power!The works of Egypt's mightiest hour,—The pyramid and vaulted tomb,—The peerless fane of David's son,The ...
No moon hung o'er the sleeping earth,But, on their thrones of light,The stars, that sang ere morning's birth,Filled the blue ...
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, ...
Day of glory! welcome day!Freedom's banners greet thy ray;See! how cheerfully they playWith thy morning breeze,On the rocks where pilgrims ...
To Thee, beneath whose eyeEach circling centuryObedient rolls,Our nation, in its prime,Looked with a faith sublime,And trusted, in "the timeThat ...
Oh! what are the pangs that result from excess,In quaffing the juice of the vine;Tho' the bosom may feel them ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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