Advice To A Woman, Not To Grieve Too Much For The Death Of Her Child (Rees Prichard Poems)
O! Martha, Martha, cease thy plaintive moan —Take comfort — check thy over frequent sighsFor thy dear babe — whom ...
O! Martha, Martha, cease thy plaintive moan —Take comfort — check thy over frequent sighsFor thy dear babe — whom ...
O God of justice, health's immortal Sire!Thou Judge of all! thou raiser of the low!O hear my suit, and grant ...
My dear Relation, and the Friend I love,You've put to me a question I approve:I therefore think myself in duty ...
O Let's applaud with one accord,And bless, from day to day, the Lord,Who gave for us his only Son,When we ...
O Lord, my God! who formedst me of nought!My Saviour, who from death his servant bought!O Holy Ghost! O Trinity ...
COME, hear me relate our Redeemer's vast love,When to purchase our souls he first came from above;That love bear in ...
HEAR my advice, Adulterer obscene!And often in thy mind these precepts roll,E'er thou dost haste with appetite unclean,And headlong passion ...
Come all fresh and gay, let us keep Holiday, With hymns let us Jesus adore;Let us him celebrate, both early and ...
A Deep and bottomless abyss,My drear and dismal dungeon is,And all its walls are rais'd so high,That none can o'er ...
Thou ruler of heaven, of earth, and the main,Of wind, and of weather, of tempests, and rain,O, list to the ...
THOU God of might, who dost o'er hosts preside,Who dost alone the doubtful battle guide,Who dost alone the joyful vict'ry ...
Rise with the cock, and clap each flutt'ring wing,In grateful hymns exultingly rejoice —Early to God, each Sunday morning, singWith ...
A. In God, the Father, whose Almighty Pow'r Did heav'n, earth, sea, into existence call, I do believe, and ever will adore Him, ...
SHOU'D Satan promise thee, or house or land,If thou wou'dst kneel and worship at his feet :Tell him, he has ...
THY mortal part shou'd sickness chance to seize,Consider, whence the fi'ry dart was sent,Consider, who inflicted the disease,And to what ...
Awake, awake, why wilt thou sleep, my God!Never before hast thou been known to nod!Thou art not Baal! — thy ...
ALL honour, reverence, and due regard,My son! unto thy parents ever give:'Tis God's command! — and thou, for thy reward,Shalt, ...
Whoe'er would have the sins forgiven,Whereby he has offended heaven,He must with diligence pursueThose useful Precepts, that ensue.Thou, first of ...
SEE, that thou sittest not to eat,Before thou first hast bless'd thy meat!Nor rise from thence, 'till thou hast givenDue ...
PULL off thy shoes, and make thy garments white,And sanctify thyself, ere thou dost dareApproach the throne of the dread ...
O God of mercy, soft-ey'd Pity's Sire!For Jesus sake, my num'rous faults pass o'er,Which more Arithmetic, I own, requireTo count, ...
Be thy demeanour of the Christian sort,Be it obliging, affable, and right,In ev'ry place to which thou may'st resort,As is ...
...Thy Sabbaths I profanely spentIn riot and vain merriment,Or, which is worse, in drunkenness,And ev'ry blameable excess.When other folks, of ...
THOU, that dost guard thy people, and protect!Thou castle of defence, the weak to keep!For Jesu's sake, do not my ...
TELL me, my soul, and in good earnest tell,Why dost thou seem afraid to Christ to go,With him and his ...
FORGET not, on my blessing, thrice a-day,Thy bounden sacrifice of praise to bring,And on thy bended knees devoutly prayBefore thy ...
My gracious God! compassion's Sire!Do not rebuke me in thine ire,Nor let thy dreadful wrath extendIts terrors to my latter ...
WHEN first thou go'st to court a maid,If thou'dst succeed, implore God's aid,And take his Spirit for thy guide,Or thou'lt ...
WHEN first thou wakest, each succeeding day,Lift up to God above thy grateful eyes,And due respect to him be sure ...
DID it not answer some benign intentTo mortify the flesh, and mend the mind,The Sire of mercies never wou'd have ...
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