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 ...
Friend of my dark and solitary hour,When spectres walk abroad, and ghosts have power,To thee I look to dissipate the ...
How sadly hath this Sabbath day,O God, been spent by me,Cribbed close beneath a narrow deck,Washed by the frequent sea,An ...
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 ...
The Pilgrim Fathers,—where are they?—The waves that brought them o'erStill roll in the bay, and throw their sprayAs they break ...
Hark! 'tis the children of Washington, pouringThe full tide of song to the conqueror's praise,Whose brows our young eagle, triumphantly ...
It had rained in the night; but the morning's birthWas as calm and still as even;The heralds of day were ...
Hurrah! hurrah! we've burst the chain;O God! how long it bound us!We run! we leap! O God, againThy light, thy ...
Knowledge and Virtue! sister powers,Who guard and grace a Christian state,Better than bulwarks, walls, or towers,To you this hall we ...
To E.C.S. to the memory of her sisterDear sister! we were little girlsWhen we were standing by,With eyes brim full ...
Tossed on the billows of the main,And doomed from zone to zone to roam,The seaman toiled for others' gain,But, for ...
His falchion flashed along the Nile;—His hosts he led through Alpine snows;—O'er Moscow's towers, that shook the while,His eagle flag ...
Faint, bleeding, of his robes bereft,"Ready to perish" by the way,'Mid craggy wilds by robbers left,A lonely Jewish traveller lay.A ...
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, ...
"And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives."—Matth. xxvi. 30.There's something sweet in ...
O, is not this a holy spot!'T is the high place of Freedom's birth!God of our fathers! is it notThe ...
Before thy throne we boast the nameOf Freemen:—God, thy frown is just.Immortals, break your bonds of shame!Arise, inebriates, from the ...
No curtains drawn, nor tent, nor shed,Shut out the over-arching skies,When Jesus, in his manger bed,First turned to heaven his ...
"My blood is drink indeed."—John vi. 55.When Asia's mighty conqueror died,His followers shared his realm:Yet, O how soon did ruin's ...
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 ...
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 ...
O, not for thee weep;—we weepFor her, whose lone and long caress,And widow's tears, from fountains deep,Fall on the early ...
When first I saw the gleaming crestOf temp'rance's silver star,I watch'd it, till its radiance blestIllum'd the world afar:It rose ...
When in the light of faith divineWe look on things below,Honor, and gold, and sensual joy,How vain and dang'rous too.The ...
Press on ye band who nobly braveA world's unpitying scorn;Ye stand erect in virtue's cause,By virtue's strength upborne.Can scorn unfix ...
Of all the causes East or WestI love the Temperance Cause the best—I love its cheerful greetings:No joys on earth ...
Another day its course hath run,And still, O God, thy child is blessed;For thou hast been by day my sun,And ...
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