My God, how gracious art thou! I… Almost to hell, And on the verge of that dark, dre… Did hear them yell, But O thy love! thy rich, almight…
Unfold! unfold! Take in His light… Who makes thy cares more short tha… The joys which with His day—star… He deals to all but drowsy eyes; And (what the men of this world mi…
Sweet, harmless lives! (on whose h… Waits innocence and pleasure), Whose leaders to those pastures, a… Were patriarchs, saints, and kings… How happened it that in the dead o…
'TWAS so ; I saw thy birth. Tha… From her faint bosom breath’d thee… Of her sick waters and infectious… But now at even, Too gross for heaven,
I see the use: and know my blood Is not a sea, But a shallow, bounded flood, Though red as he ; Yet have I flows, as strong as hi…
Sure thou didst flourish once! and… Many bright mornings, much dew, ma… Pass’d o’er thy head; many light h… Which now are dead, lodg’d in thy… And still a new succession sings a…
So stick up ivy and the bays, And then restore the heathen ways. Green will remind you of the sprin… Though this great day denies the t… And mortifies the earth and all
Thou that know’st for whom I mour… And why these tears appear, That keep’st account till he retur… Of all his dust left here ; As easily Thou might’st prevent,
How rich, O Lord! how fresh thy v… 'Twas but just now my bleak leaves… Sullied with dust and mud; Each snarling blast shot through m… Their youth, and beauty, cold show…
Hail sacred shades! cool, leavy H… Chaste treasurer of all my vows, And wealth! on whose soft bosom la… My love’s fair steps I first betr… Henceforth no melancholy flight,
Vain wits and eyes Leave, and be wise: Abuse not, shun not holy fire, But with true tears wash off your… Tears and these flames will soon g…
Quite spent with thoughts, I left… Where a shrill spring tuned to the… I begged here long, and groaned to… Who gave the clouds so brave a bow… Who bent the spheres, and circled…
Love, the world’s life! What a sa… Thy absence is to lose our breath At once and die, is but to live Enlarged, without the scant reprie… Of pulse and air: whose dull retur…
They are all gone into the world o… And I alone sit ling’ring here; Their very memory is fair and brig… And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy…
Joy of my life while left me here! And still my love! How in thy absence thou dost steer Me from above! A life well led
Since in a land not barren still (Because Thou dost Thy grace dist… My lot is fallen, blest be Thy wi… And since these biting frosts but… Some tares in me which choke or sp…
Weighing the steadfastness and sta… Of some mean things which here bel… Where birds like watchful clocks t… And intercourse of times divide; Where bees at night get home and h…
When to my Eyes Whilst deep sleep others catches, Thine host of spies, The stars, shine in their watches, I do survey
SWEET, sacred hill! on whose fai… My Saviour sate, shall I allow Language to love, And idolize some shade, or grove, Neglecting thee? such ill—plac’d w…
False life, a foil and no more, wh… Wilt thou be gone? Thou foul deception of all men That would not have the true come… Thou art a moon—like toil, a blind
A ward, and still in bonds, one da… I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the wa… Primrosed and hung with shade; Yet was it frost within,
Fresh fields and woods! the Earth… God’s foot—stool, and man’s dwelli… I ask not why the first Believer Did love to be a country liver? Who to secure pious content
When first thine eyes unveil, give… To do the like: our bodies but for… The spirit’s duty. True hearts sp… Unto their God, as flowers do to… Give Him thy first thoughts then;…
Silence, and stealth of days! 'tis… Since thou art gone, Twelve hundred hours, and not a br… But clouds hang on. As he that in some cave’s thick da…
Bright shadows of true Rest! some… Heaven once a week; The next world’s gladness preposse… A day to seek; Eternity in time; the steps by whi…
O Lord, the hope of Israel, all t… Thee shall be ashamed ; and they t… Thee, shall be written in the eart… forsaken the Lord, the fountain of… Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be…
Hither thou com’st: the busy wind… Blew through thy lodging, where th… Thy pillow was. Many a sullen sto… —For which coarse man seems much t… Rained on thy bed
Eternal God! Maker of all That have lived here since the man… The Rock of Ages! in whose shade They live unseen, when here they f… Thou knew’st this paper when it wa…
Come, my heart! come, my head, In sighs, and tears! 'Tis now, since you have lain thus… Some twenty years ; Awake, awake,
Vain, sinful art! who first did fi… Thy lewd loathed motions unto soun… And made grave music like wild wit Err in loose airs beyond her bound… What fires hath he heaped on his h…
