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 ...
There's not an echo round me,But I am glad should learn,How pure a fire has found me,The love with which ...
On the green margin of the brook,Despairing Phyllida reclined,Whilst every sigh, and every look,Declared the anguish of her mind.Am I ...
(Isaiah, ix. 15-20) Hear what God the Lord hath spoken, "O my people, faint and few, Comfortless, afflicted, broken, Fair ...
What thousands never knew the road! What thousands hate it when 'tis known! None but the chosen tribes of God ...
To Jesus, the crown of my hope, My soul is in haste to be gone; O bear me, ye cherubim, ...
Sin enslaved me many years, And led me bound and blind; Till at length a thousand fears Came swarming o'er ...
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before 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 ...
God gives his mercies to be spent; Your hoard will do your soul no good. Gold is a blessing only ...
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
What various hindrances we meet In coming to a mercy seat! Yet who that knows the worth of prayer, But ...
(Judges, vi.25) Jesus! whose blood so freely stream'd To satisfy the law's demand; By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem'd, ...
No strength of nature can suffice To serve the Lord aright: And what she has she misapplies, For want of ...
The twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky was overcast;- Ah would that this might be the ...
My soul is sad, and much dismay'd; See, Lord, what legions of my foes, With fierce Apollyon at their head, ...
Sometimes a light surprises The Christian while he sings; It is the Lord who rises With healing on His wings; ...
Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me, My peace and pardon to procure, The lighter cross I bear for Thee, ...
Holy Lord God! I love Thy truth, Nor dare Thy least commandment slight; Yet pierced by sin the serpent's tooth, ...
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