The Thirteenth Satire Of Juvenal (John Quincy Adams Poems)
From Virtue's paths, when hapless men depart,The first avenger is the culprit's heart;There sits a judge, from whose severe decreeNo ...
From Virtue's paths, when hapless men depart,The first avenger is the culprit's heart;There sits a judge, from whose severe decreeNo ...
Time was, when round the lion's den,A peopled city raised its head;'Twas not inhabited by men,But by four-footed beasts instead.The ...
The man in righteousness arrayed, A pure and blameless liver, Needs not the keen Toledo blade, Nor venom-freighted quiver. What ...
Sure, to the mansions of the blestWhen infant innocence ascends,Some angel, brighter than the rest,The spotless spirit's flight attends.On wings ...
Lord Of all worlds, let thanks and praiseTo thee forever fill my soul;With blessings thou hast crowned my daysMy heart, ...
When o'er the billow-heaving deep,The fathers of our race,The precepts of their God to keep,Sought here their resting-placeThat gracious God ...
Hark! 'Tis the holy temple's bell;The voice that summons me to prayer:My heart, each roving fancy quell;Come, to the house ...
Alas! How swift the moments fly!How flash the years along!Scarce here, yet gone already by,The burden of a song.See childhood, ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories