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 ...
'Twas my purpose, on a day,To embark, and sail away.As I climbed the vessel's side,Love was sporting in the tide;'Come,' ...
O Lord, my best desire fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort to Thy will, And make ...
(Ezekiel, xxxvi. 25-28) The Lord proclaims His grace abroad! "Behold, I change your hearts of stone; Each shall renounce his ...
To tell the Saviour all my wants, How pleasing is the task! Nor less to praise Him when He grants ...
(Isaiah, xii.1) I will praise Thee every day Now Thine anger's turn'd away; Comfortable thoughts arise From the bleeding sacrifice. ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
God of my life, to Thee I call, Afflicted at Thy feet I fall; When the great water-floods prevail, Leave ...
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
(Genesis, xxii.14) The saints should never be dismay'd, Nor sink in hopeless fear; For when they least expect His aid, ...
Breathe from the gentle south, O Lord, And cheer me from the north; Blow on the treasures of thy word, ...
Far from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His ...
(Phillipians, iv.11) Fierce passions discompose the mind, As tempests vex the sea, But calm, content and peace we find, When, ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
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