Vox Populi (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
Yea peoples of the earth, put not your trustIn princes, nor in any child of manSet over you in lordship, ...
Yea peoples of the earth, put not your trustIn princes, nor in any child of manSet over you in lordship, ...
Then to her answered and spake great Hector the waving-crested :" I too grieve for all this, dear love, but ...
YE gentle days that once were mine, In every charm of life array'd,No more awaken my regret, No more my settled peace ...
WHILE others, lost in pleasure's guilty round, Blast the glad season of their fleeting youth,Let me in solitary joys abound, Fond of ...
What is he thinking lying there so still,This tiny piece of soft humanity,This little unknown stranger in our midst ?Is ...
COME, Holy Spirit, love divine, Thy cleansing power impart;Each erring thought and wish refine, That wanders near my heart.There let they quick'ning ...
FAREWELL thou restless world, whose unsound joy,False hopes, and vain pursuits, man's life destroy;Poison in golden cups thou gav'st to ...
MY span of life will soon be done, The passing moments say;As lengthening shadows o'er the mead Proclaim the close of day."Oh ...
O Moon, that sailest in the heavens above,Inscrutable, pale, beautiful, alone.Art weary of thy solitary throne ?Dost long sometimes for ...
BE hush'd my tongue, nor murmur or complain;With pious awe the struggling tear restrain.Dark is my path and intricate my ...
THE hardest task the Christian heart can know,Is to relinquish all it loves below.Where creature comforts, tender ties, conspireTo rule ...
While the whole world is filled with noise of battle,And cries from many a devastated land,While day by day our ...
Nature her gifts is bringingTo deck the fields anew,And all the birds are singing,And all the skies are blue,And all ...
SAY, would the teeming earth its treasures yield,Or grateful plenty crown the smiling field,If bright'ning suns unceasing warm'd the plain,And ...
While I was the king of your heart, love,And you kept all your kisses for me,I'll wager no king on ...
To paths of bliss incline their straying feet,With heavenly wisdom make their souls replete;Give them, O God! that source of ...
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