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 ...
'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,' ...
Where Humber pours his rich commercial stream,There dwelt a wretch, who breathed but to blaspheme.In subterraneous caves his life he ...
(Mark, xi.17) Thy mansion is the Christian's heart, O Lord, Thy dwelling place secure! Bid the unruly throng depart, And ...
Dear Lord! accept a sinful heart, Which of itself complains, And mourns, with much and frequent smart, The evil it ...
O God, whose favorable eye, The sin-sick soul revives, Holy and heavenly is the joy Thy shining presence gives. Not ...
To Jesus, the crown of my hope, My soul is in haste to be gone; O bear me, ye cherubim, ...
Sin has undone our wretched race; But Jesus has restored, And brought the sinner face to face With his forgiving ...
Sin enslaved me many years, And led me bound and blind; Till at length a thousand fears Came swarming o'er ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
(Hebrews, iv.2) Israel in ancient days Not only had a view Of Sinai in a blaze, But learn'd the Gospel ...
(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 ...
Too many, Lord, abuse Thy grace In this licentious day, And while they boast they see Thy face, They turn ...
My God, how perfect are Thy ways! But mine polluted are; Sin twines itself about my praise, And slides into ...
My former hopes are fled, My terror now begins; I feel, alas! that I am dead In trespasses and sins. ...
(Genesis, v.24) Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the ...
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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