Retired Hours (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
YE gentle days that once were mine, In every charm of life array'd,No more awaken my regret, No more my settled peace ...
YE gentle days that once were mine, In every charm of life array'd,No more awaken my regret, No more my settled peace ...
O Moon, that sailest in the heavens above,Inscrutable, pale, beautiful, alone.Art weary of thy solitary throne ?Dost long sometimes for ...
THE hardest task the Christian heart can know,Is to relinquish all it loves below.Where creature comforts, tender ties, conspireTo rule ...
While I was the king of your heart, love,And you kept all your kisses for me,I'll wager no king on ...
E'EN to the height of God's eternal throne,Where my affections, my desires, are gone.No view of this frail, fleeting scene ...
Lady of the Garden, noFairer spot than this can be,Proud with Summer's bravest show,Sweet to smell and fair to see.Lady ...
HOW sweet in silent thought to trace The riches of redeeming grace! To reckon mercies o'er and o'er, And find them such an ...
HAPPY soul, whoe'er thou be,Who dwell'st with Christ in unity;Happiest thou of human race,Who know'st the sweets of sov'reign grace.Whether ...
HIS steady eye surveys the happy shore,Where grief, and pain, and sickness, are no more:He counts the mighty ransom that ...
FREELY I to God resignWhatever is accounted mine;Seeking only to be blestIn his love's eternal rest.Oh the bliss of pains ...
To paths of bliss incline their straying feet,With heavenly wisdom make their souls replete;Give them, O God! that source of ...
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