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2,201 illustrations — Poetic illustrations and verse for preaching
Whatever it is -- she has tried it -- Awful Father of Love -- Is not Ours the chastising -- Do not chastise the Dove...
We talked as Girls do -- Fond, and late -- We speculated fair, on every subject, but the Grave -- Of ours, none affair --...
You see I cannot see -- your lifetime -- I must guess -- How many times it ache for me -- today -- Confess --...
Spring comes on the World -- I sight the Aprils -- Hueless to me until thou come As, till the Bee Blossoms stand negative, Touched...
OH how I wish that an embargo Had kept in port the good ship Argo! Who, still unlaunched from Grecian docks, Had never passed the Azure rocks; But now I fear her trip will be a Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc., etc.
I never felt at Home -- Below -- And in the Handsome Skies I shall not feel at Home -- I know -- I don't...
'Twas a long Parting -- but the time For Interview -- had Come -- Before the Judgment Seat of God -- The last -- and...
If Nature smiles -- the Mother must I'm sure, at many a whim Of Her eccentric Family -- Is She so much to blame?
Funny -- to be a Century -- And see the People -- going by -- I -- should die of the Oddity -- But then...
IN hearts like thine ne'er may I hold a place Till I renounce all sense, all shame, all grace-- That seat,--like seats, the bane of Freedom's realm, But dear to those presiding at the helm-- Is basely purchased, not with...
She rose to His Requirement -- dropt The Playthings of Her Life To take the honorable Work Of Woman, and of Wife -- If ought...
The last of Summer is Delight -- Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review -- Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it -- nameless as it is...
Not One by Heaven defrauded stay -- Although he seem to steal He restitutes in some sweet way Secreted in his will --
A Door just opened on a street -- I -- lost -- was passing by -- An instant's Width of Warmth disclosed -- And Wealth...
Time does go on -- I tell it gay to those who suffer now -- They shall survive -- There is a sun -- They...
Estranged from Beauty -- none can be -- For Beauty is Infinity -- And power to be finite ceased Before Identity was leased.
The Road was lit with Moon and star -- The Trees were bright and still -- Descried I -- by the distant Light A Traveller...
The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see The wantonest singing birds, Are lips--and all thy melody Of lip-begotten words-- Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrined Then desolately fall, O God!
When I hoped I feared -- Since I hoped I dared Everywhere alone As a Church remain -- Spectre cannot harm -- Serpent cannot charm...
But once I dared to lift my eyes-- To lift my eyes to thee; And since that day, beneath the skies, No other sight they see.
In thee, I fondly hop'd to clasp A friend, whom death alone could sever; Till envy, with malignant grasp, Detach'd thee from my breast for ever.
FROM thee, Eliza, I must go, And from my native shore; The cruel fates between us throw A boundless ocean’s roar: But boundless oceans, roaring wide, Between my love and me, They never, never can divide My heart and soul from thee.
Let Folly smile, to view the names Of thee and me, in Friendship twin'd; Yet Virtue will have greater claims To love, than rank with vice combin'd.
Summer is shorter than any one -- Life is shorter than Summer -- Seventy Years is spent as quick As an only Dollar -- Sorrow...
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