“An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly (Jupiter Hammon Poems)
O, come you pious youth: adoreThe wisdom of thy God.In bringing thee from distant shore,To learn His holy word.Thou mightst ...
O, come you pious youth: adoreThe wisdom of thy God.In bringing thee from distant shore,To learn His holy word.Thou mightst ...
My thoughts are all in yonder town,Where, wept by many tears,To-day my mother's friend lays downThe burden of her years.True ...
Against the light of a dawning white My Skyline Riders stand-There is trouble ahead for a dark year dead And the selfish ...
The salt of the earth--what a meaningful phrase From the lips of the Saviour, and one that conveys A sense of the ...
Long Bill, the captain of the push, was tired of his estate,And wished to change his life and win the ...
My young heart's luve! twal' years ha'e been A century to me; I ha'e na seen thy smile, nor heard Thy voice's melodie. The ...
Salvation comes by Jesus Christ alone,The only Son of God;Redemption now to every one,That love his holy Word.Dear Jesus we ...
With fondest love and sweetest pleasureGaze I on my infant treasure—My sweetest rose, my purest pearl,Heaven's latest gift, my baby-girl.Opening ...
O Buddha, of the mystic smileAnd downcast, dreamful eyes,To whom unnumbered sacred shrinesAnd gilded statues rise,Whose fanes are filled with ...
She Discourseth of Nothing to Eat and the Cost thereof. Why Merdle--why did you bring Dinewell to-day? So very, though welcome, so ...
We are accused of terrorismIf we dare to write about the remains of a homelandThat is scattered in pieces and ...
How often in the years that close, When truce had stilled the sieging gun,The soldiers, mounting on their works, With mutual curious ...
GOOD neighbors, dear, be cautious,And covet no man's pounds or pence.Ambition's greedy maw shun,And tread the path of innocence!Dread crooked ...
There's a flag hangs over my threshold, whose folds are more dear to meThan the blood that thrills in my ...
O now wondrous is the storyOf our blest Redeemer's birth?See the mighty Lord of GloryLeaves his heaven to visit earth!Hear ...
I have listened to this cry of "Woman's Rights," this clamoringfor the ballot, for redress for woman's wrongs, and I ...
He shall live to the end of this mad old world, he has lived since the world began,He never has ...
I would that all men my hard case would know,How grievously I suffer for no sin:I, Adolphe Culpepper Ferguson, for ...
IN dark wild woods, where the lone owl broods And the dingoes nightly yell- Where the curlew's cry goes floating ...
Queen of all harmonious things,Dancing words, and speaking strings.Cowley.SPIRIT, or Power, or Spell, or whatsoe'erOf name beseems thee best, Ethereal ...
September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893HE rests from toil; the portals of the tombClose on the last of those ...
Look on who will in apathy, and stifle they who can,The sympathies, the hopes, the words, that make man truly ...
At morn I prayed, "I fain would seeHow Three are One, and One is Three;Read the dark riddle unto me."I ...
Say, ye celestial guards, who waitIn Bethlehem, round the Saviour's palace gate, Say, who are these on golden wings,That hover o'er ...
LOVE, mistress is of many minds,Yet few know whom they serve;They reckon least how little LoveTheir service doth deserve.The will ...
She left her home that morn In fair Samaria's land, All heedless of her state forlorn, Sin-bound, both heart and hand. With prejudicial pride She ...
GLORY to Thee, Father of all the Immortal,Ever belongs:We bring Thee from our watch by the grave's portalNothing but songs.Though ...
Hour after hour steals rapidly away,Bearing past pleasures on its airy wings,E'en like the sunny clouds, which evening's rayGilds with ...
Come thi ways in, an God bless thi, lad! Come thi ways in, for thar't welcome, joy!A'a! tha'rt a shockin young ...
O ladies, lords, and gentlemen, Attend to what I say,For well I wot you'll like it when You listen to my lay;And ...
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