That A Woman Ought To Suckle Her Child, Unless She Be Weak And Sickly (Rees Prichard Poems)
With milk from thy own breasts thy children nurse,And be not than the female dragon worse;For ev'ry animal, e'en rav'nous ...
Rees Prichard Poems (133 Poems)
A Short Prayer, For A Devout Person To Use At His Last Hour (Rees Prichard Poems)
Deign now, O Lord! thy servant to release,And from this prison let me part in peace;Yet, ere I'm from th' ...
An Admonition To A Man, When He Dresses His Body, To Pray For Clothes And Armour, For The Soul (Rees Prichard Poems)
WHEN, in the morn, to dress thou dost begin,Pray thou that God wou'd lend to thee his arms,That, like a ...
Another Grace Before Meat (Rees Prichard Poems)
THE eyes of ev'ry creature here belowAre fix'd on thee, whence all their blessings flow,And earnestly expect, O Lord! their ...
Another After Supper (Rees Prichard Poems)
FOR ev'ry meal's refreshment we receive,Let us to God with due obeisance bow,Who deigns so lib'rally our food to give,And ...
Grace After Meat (Rees Prichard Poems)
Thou, that feedest ev'ry creature,Whether tame, or wild by nature,Receive our prayers, who humbly ownThe plenteous goodness thou hast shown!'Twas ...
Thanks To Christ For Protection And Rest (Rees Prichard Poems)
My Shepherd, who my soul didst keepLast night, whilst I was fast asleep,From the grim wolf, beneath thy wing —Thy ...
An Admonition To A Person, Whilst He Washes Himself (Rees Prichard Poems)
Whene'er, to wash thyself, thou dost begin,With earnestness to thy Creator pray,That he'll be pleas'd to cleanse thy soul from ...
A Prayer On The Same Occasion (Rees Prichard Poems)
Permit us not, O God, thy gifts to waste,Or eat our meat, as filthy hogs eat mast,Ne'er lifting up our ...
A Short Prayer, On The Same Occasion (Rees Prichard Poems)
O Wash me in the Blood, the Jews erst spilt!O wash me, Christ! from ev'ry conscious guilt!O wash my mind ...
Another Shorter Poem, On The Same Subject (Rees Prichard Poems)
LIKE Daniel, when among the lions cast,Like Jonah, in the whale imprison'd fast,I lifted to the Lord my voice on ...
Short Is The Life Of Man (Rees Prichard Poems)
Man's life, like any weaver's shuttle, flies,Or, like a tender flowret, droops and dies,Or, like a race, it ends without ...
Another Grace, After Meat (Rees Prichard Poems)
The labial sacrifice, O Lord! receive,Which now, to thee, we for thy mercies give;Because so fully, whenso-e'er they need,Thou, with ...