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 ...
Dear Anna, -- Between friend and friend,Prose answers every common end;Serves, in a plain and homely way,To express the occurrence ...
And dwells there in a female heart,By bounteous heaven design'dThe choicest raptures to impact,To feel the most refined;Dwells there a ...
In Scotland's realm, where trees are fewNor even shrubs abound;But where, however bleak the viewSome better things are found;For husband ...
'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,' ...
Did not thy reason, and thy sense,With most persuasive eloquence,Convince me that obedience dueNone may so justly claim as you,By ...
I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid ...
The Lord receives his highest praise From humble minds and hearts sincere; While all the loud professor says Offends the ...
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
The Spirit breathes upon the word, And brings the truth to sight; Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. A ...
Too many, Lord, abuse Thy grace In this licentious day, And while they boast they see Thy face, They turn ...
My song shall bless the Lord of all, My praise shall climb to His abode; Thee, Saviour, by that name ...
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon ...
Gracious Lord, our children see, By Thy mercy we are free; But shall these, alas! remain Subjects still of Satan's ...
The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade: The winds play no ...
The Saviour hides His face; My spirit thirsts to prove Renew'd supplies of pardoning grace, And never-fading love. The favor'd ...
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon ...
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