Retired Hours (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
YE gentle days that once were mine, In every charm of life array'd,No more awaken my regret, No more my settled peace ...
YE gentle days that once were mine, In every charm of life array'd,No more awaken my regret, No more my settled peace ...
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 ...
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 ...
AH hapless maid! whose virtues, once thy own,The lustre of thy brilliants far outshone;Couldst thou awhile thy waken'd self attend,And ...
With all my heart, with all my soul,With all my strength I love thee, dear ;Thou art my life, my ...
HAPPY soul, whoe'er thou be,Who dwell'st with Christ in unity;Happiest thou of human race,Who know'st the sweets of sov'reign grace.Whether ...
THOUGH frail and sinful dust I am, By nature born impure;Yet look I to the spotless Lamb, That brings me "health and ...
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