Lord, in this dust Thy sovereign… First quicken’d love divine; I am all Thine,'€”Thy care and ch… My very praise is Thine. I praise Thee, while Thy providen…

Type of the West, and glorying in… More than in Faith’s pure fame! Oh. trust not crafty fort nor rock… Earned upon hostile ground; Wielding Trade’s master-keys, at…

WHEN mirth is full and free, Some sudden gloom shall be; When haughty power mounts high, The Watcher’s axe is nigh. All growth has bound; when greates…

MAN is permitted much To scan and learn In Nature’€™s frame; Till he well-nigh can tame Brute mischiefs, and can touch

‘Snapdragon’ a Riddle for a Flowe… I am rooted in the wall Of buttress’d tower or ancient hal… Prison’d in an art-wrought bed. Cased in mortar, cramp’d with lead…

I am a harp of many chords, and ea… Strung by a separate hand;—most mu… My notes, discoursing with the men… Not the outward ear. Try them, th… With wisdom, fancy, graceful gaiet…

When Heaven sends sorrow, Warnings go first, Lest it should burst With stunning might On souls too bright

OH! miserable power To dreams allow’d, to raise the gu… And back awhile the illumined spir… On its youth’s twilight hour; In mockery guiling it to act again

FRAMER of the earth and sky, Ruler of the day and night, With a glad variety, Tempering all, and making light; Gleams upon our dark path flinging…

TODAY the Blessed Three in One Began the earth and skies; Today a Conqueror, God the Son, Did from the grave arise; We too will wake, and, in despite

BANISH’D the House of sacred r… Amid a thoughtless throng, At length I heard its creed confe… And knelt the saints among. Artless his strain and unadorn’d,

Time was, I shrank from what was… From fear of what was wrong; I would not brave the sacred fight… Because the foe was strong. But now I cast that finer sense

‘Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscer… Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile… Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Ac… IN childhood, when with eager eye… The season-measured year I view’d…

Fair Cousin, thy page is small to encage the thoughts which engage the mind of a sage, such as I am;