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2,201 illustrations — Poetic illustrations and verse for preaching
I DREAM’D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dream’d that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust...
What shall I do when the Summer troubles -- What, when the Rose is ripe -- What when the Eggs fly off in Music From...
Chorus—O aye my wife she dang me, An’ aft my wife she bang’d me, If ye gie a woman a’ her will, Gude faith! she’ll soon o’er-gang ye. ON peace an’ rest my mind was bent, And, fool I was!
Love -- is that later Thing than Death -- More previous -- than Life -- Confirms it at its entrance -- And Usurps it --...
Flowers -- Well -- if anybody Can the ecstasy define -- Half a transport -- half a trouble -- With which flowers humble men: Anybody...
The Snow that never drifts -- The transient, fragrant snow That comes a single time a Year Is softly driving now -- So thorough in...
Teach Him -- When He makes the names -- Such an one -- to say -- On his babbling -- Berry -- lips -- As...
The sacred song that on mine ear Yet vibrates from that voice of thine, I heard, before, from one so dear-- 'T is strange it still appears divine.
Four Trees -- upon a solitary Acre -- Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action -- Maintain -- The Sun -- upon a Morning meets...
Their Height in Heaven comforts not -- Their Glory -- nought to me -- 'Twas best imperfect -- as it was -- I'm finite --...
Go not too near a House of Rose -- The depredation of a Breeze -- Or inundation of a Dew Alarms its walls away --...
Our journey had advanced -- Our feet were almost come To that odd Fork in Being's Road -- Eternity -- by Term -- Our pace...
I cannot meet the Spring unmoved -- I feel the old desire -- A Hurry with a lingering, mixed, A Warrant to be fair --...
To lose one's faith -- surpass The loss of an Estate -- Because Estates can be Replenished -- faith cannot -- Inherited with Life --...
Though the great Waters sleep, That they are still the Deep, We cannot doubt -- No vacillating God Ignited this Abode To put it out...
FROM THE GREEK. A man who was about to hang himself, Finding a purse, then threw away his rope; The owner, coming to reclaim his pelf, The halter found; and used it. So is Hope Changed for Despair--one laid upon...
The Flower must not blame the Bee -- That seeketh his felicity Too often at her door -- But teach the Footman from Vevay --...
Nature can do no more She has fulfilled her Dyes Whatever Flower fail to come Of other Summer days Her crescent reimburse If other Summers...
"Father, father, where are you going? Oh do not walk so fast!
The way Hope builds his House It is not with a sill -- Nor Rafter -- has that Edifice But only Pinnacle -- Abode in...
Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? When young and old, and strong and weak, Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, Thy sweet smiles we ever seek,-- In thy place--ah! well-a-day! We find the thing we fled--To-day.
How far is it to Heaven? As far as Death this way -- Of River or of Ridge beyond Was no discovery. How far is...
She's happy, with a new Content -- That feels to her -- like Sacrament -- She's busy -- with an altered Care -- As just...
Said Death to Passion "Give of thine an Acre unto me." Said Passion, through contracting Breaths "A Thousand Times Thee Nay." Bore Death from Passion...
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