Habakkuk III, 6 (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
(Written in her fifteenth yaar.)When Cushan was mourning in solitude drear,When the curtains of Midian trembled with fear,On the wings ...
(Written in her fifteenth yaar.)When Cushan was mourning in solitude drear,When the curtains of Midian trembled with fear,On the wings ...
Savior and Regenerator!Thee alone, God we own,Father and Creator.Word Incarnate, we adore Thee!Hosts above, God of Love,Cast their crowns before ...
WHEN storms ariseAnd dark'ning skiesAbout me threat'ning lower,To thee, O Lord, I raise mine eyes,To thee my tortured spirit fliesFor ...
O that the Lord's salvationWere out of Zion come,To heal His ancient nation,To lead His outcasts home!How long the holy ...
My hand, behold it-God's implement!The Master speaks, and it labours, followingNo pattern, but groping through the darkness-Uncertainly creating certainties!My hand, ...
Let Thy servant now depart; Every doubt and fear is stilled,For Thy peace hath warmed his heart, And Thy promise is fulfilled.Now ...
Let Thy servant now depart; Every doubt and fear is stilled,For Thy peace hath warmed his heart, And Thy promise is fulfilled.Now ...
With fright in their eyesthe soldiers of salvation beheldfrom the helmeted observatory tower: the heavenly harps;the swaying, titanic nebulaeand their ...
Come to the waters, ye who thirst, The waters of salvation's springs;Come, ye benighted! to the burst Of morning, which the Gospel ...
Print Thine image, pure and holy,On my heart, O Lord of Grace;So that nothing, high or lowly,Thy blest likeness can ...
Yet look at the thousands whose every day prayer, Far more than their own or their neighbor's salvation, Absorbs every thought, every ...
Nor Steel, nor Flint alone produces fire;No spark arises till they both conspire:Nor Faith alone, nor work without is right;Salvation ...
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages, Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption abide? ...
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
THERE'S a mansion old 'mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But ...
_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewellTo all the follies which in Europe dwell;To Eastern India now, a richer ...
Far off (no matter whether east or west,A real country, or one made in jest,Nor yet by modern Mandevilles disgraced,Nor ...
I.The times are changed, and gone the dayWhen the high heavenly land,Though unbeheld, quite near them lay,And men could understand.The ...
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
''Not with you to take counsel, Powers of heaven,-- For still that title ours,--in so great haste Hither have I ...
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD The Disincantation.ARGUMENT. Crispulus hic, nulli Nugarum Laude secundus, Cui Mens Lucis inops, Stulta Ruina Dom?s; ...
Through the lattice rushes the south wind, dense With fumes of the flowery frankincense From hawthorn blossoming thickly; And gold ...
Rejoice in God, O ye Tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and the Lamb. Nations, and languages, and every ...
THE SAMPO LOST IN THE SEA.Louhi, hostess of Pohyola,Called her many tribes together,Gave the archers bows and arrows,Gave her brave ...
I. Speak, Muse, whom wilt thou sing? What mighty Man, what King, Upon the Stage what Hero wilt thou bring, ...
A DialogueMark:So, Maurice, you sail to-morrow, you say? And you may or may not return?Be sociable, man! for once in ...
It was the morning season of the year; It was the morning era of the land;The watercourses rang full loud ...
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