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2,201 illustrations — Poetic illustrations and verse for preaching
Bloom -- is Result -- to meet a Flower And casually glance Would scarcely cause one to suspect The minor Circumstance Assisting in the Bright...
We pray -- to Heaven -- We prate -- of Heaven -- Relate -- when Neighbors die -- At what o'clock to heaven -- they...
Suspense -- is Hostiler than Death -- Death -- tho'soever Broad, Is Just Death, and cannot increase -- Suspense -- does not conclude -- But...
These are the Signs to Nature's Inns -- Her invitation broad To Whosoever famishing To taste her mystic Bread -- These are the rites of...
Absent or present, still to thee, My friend, what magic spells belong! As all can tell, who share, like me, In turn thy converse, and thy song.
I see thee better -- in the Dark -- I do not need a Light -- The Love of Thee -- a Prism be --...
The Sun and Moon must make their haste -- The Stars express around For in the Zones of Paradise The Lord alone is burned --...
MY girl she’s airy, she’s buxom and gay; Her breath is as sweet as the blossoms in May; A touch of her lips it ravishes quite: She’s always good natur’d, good humour’d, and free; She dances, she glances, she smiles...
Only God -- detect the Sorrow -- Only God -- The Jehovahs -- are no Babblers -- Unto God -- God the Son -- Confide...
They shut me up in Prose -- As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet -- Because they liked me "still" --...
Pain -- expands the Time -- Ages coil within The minute Circumference Of a single Brain -- Pain contracts -- the Time -- Occupied with...
I died for Beauty -- but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining room --...
A Pit -- but Heaven over it -- And Heaven beside, and Heaven abroad, And yet a Pit -- With Heaven over it. To stir...
Bliss is the plaything of the child -- The secret of the man The sacred stealth of Boy and Girl Rebuke it if we can
ALTHO’ my back be at the wa’, And tho’ he be the fautor; Altho’ my back be at the wa’, Yet, here’s his health in water.
So give me back to Death -- The Death I never feared Except that it deprived of thee -- And now, by Life deprived, In...
A happy lip -- breaks sudden -- It doesn't state you how It contemplated -- smiling -- Just consummated -- now -- But this one,...
Summer -- we all have seen -- A few of us -- believed -- A few -- the more aspiring Unquestionably loved -- But Summer...
I think that the Root of the Wind is Water -- It would not sound so deep Were it a Firmamental Product -- Airs no...
I heed not that my earthly lot Hath--little of Earth in it-- That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute:-- I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that _you_ sorrow...
In snow thou comest -- Thou shalt go with the resuming ground, The sweet derision of the crow, And Glee's advancing sound. In fear thou...
Who has not found the Heaven -- below -- Will fail of it above -- For Angels rent the House next ours, Wherever we remove...
Her final Summer was it -- And yet We guessed it not -- If tenderer industriousness Pervaded Her, We thought A further force of life...
If I'm lost -- now That I was found -- Shall still my transport be -- That once -- on me -- those Jasper Gates...
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