Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1. (William Cowper Poems)
CHORUS OF ANGELS, Singing the Glory of God.To Heaven's bright lyre let Iris be the bow,Adapt the spheres for chords, ...
CHORUS OF ANGELS, Singing the Glory of God.To Heaven's bright lyre let Iris be the bow,Adapt the spheres for chords, ...
SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess ...
And dwells there in a female heart,By bounteous heaven design'dThe choicest raptures to impact,To feel the most refined;Dwells there a ...
There's not an echo round me,But I am glad should learn,How pure a fire has found me,The love with which ...
Did not my Muse (what can she less?)Perceive her own unworthiness,Could she by some well-chosen theme,But hope to merit your ...
(Mark, xi.17) Thy mansion is the Christian's heart, O Lord, Thy dwelling place secure! Bid the unruly throng depart, And ...
What thousands never knew the road! What thousands hate it when 'tis known! None but the chosen tribes of God ...
To tell the Saviour all my wants, How pleasing is the task! Nor less to praise Him when He grants ...
O God, whose favorable eye, The sin-sick soul revives, Holy and heavenly is the joy Thy shining presence gives. Not ...
Thy country, Wilberforce, with just disdain, Hears thee, by cruel men and impious, call'd Fanatic, for thy zeal to loose ...
Lord, my soul with pleasure springs When Jesu's name I hear: And when God the Spirit brings The word of ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
Winter has a joy for me, While the Saviour's charms I read, Lowly, meek, from blemish free, In the snowdrop's ...
I was a grovelling creature once, And basely cleaved to earth: I wanted spirit to renounce The clod that gave ...
(Isaiah, xii.1) I will praise Thee every day Now Thine anger's turn'd away; Comfortable thoughts arise From the bleeding sacrifice. ...
How bless'd Thy creature is, O God, When with a single eye, He views the lustre of Thy Word, The ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
Ah! wherefore should my weeping maid suppress Those gentle signs of undissembled woe? When from soft love proceeds the deep ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
God gives his mercies to be spent; Your hoard will do your soul no good. Gold is a blessing only ...
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
My song shall bless the Lord of all, My praise shall climb to His abode; Thee, Saviour, by that name ...
Honor and happiness unite To make the Christian's name a praise; How fair the scene, how clear the light, That ...
Far from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His ...
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