Browse Items (752 total)

The night was made for cooling shade, For silence, and for sleep; And when I was a child, I laid My hands upon my breast and prayed, And sank to slumbers deep. Child-like as then I lie to-night, And watch my lonely cabin light. Each movement of…

Bland as the morning's breath of June, The south-west breezes play, And through it's haze the winter's noon Seems warm as summer's day. The snow-plumed angel of the north Has dropped his icy spear: Again the mossy earth looks forth, Again the…

I hail the glad Spring, With its sunshine and showers, With its warb'ling brooks, Gay birds, and bright flowers, For it brings the sweet rose, The queen of the lawn, Whose radiant hues Greet the blushes of dawn. The bright, blushing…

One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going— Do not strive to grasp them all. One by one thy duties wait thee— Let thy whole strength go to each; Let no future dreams elate thee— Learn thou…

From the earth thy spirit hath flow, Far beyond the etherial blue; True the clods of the vale o'er thy body we cast, But thy spirit the grave did eschew. To the city of God it hath flown, Where sin and disease never come, Where sighing and…

The Sabbath morning breaks upon the earth, And toiling millions hail the blessed day— The one of all that gives them sweet repose From cares and toils that e'er beset life's way. The sun, uprising, tints the eastern sky, And bathes the earth in…

Mildly judge ye of each other— Be to condemnation slow; The very best have got their failings, Something good the worst can show. The brilliant sun hath spots of darkness On his radiant front, they say, And the clock that never goeth Speaks…

No seas again shall sever, No desert intervene; No deep and rolling river Shall roll its tide between. No bleak cliffs upward tow'ring Shall bound our eager sight; No tempest darkly lowering, Shall warp us in its night. Love, and unsevered…

Dr. John Pierpont, at the Boston Anti-Slavery Fair, in 1842, being asked for his autograph, hastily dashed off the following:Onemouth andoneback to two hands is the law That the hand of his Maker has stamped upon man; But Slavery lays on God's…

Dr. John Pierpont, at the Boston Anti-Slavery Fair, in 1842, being asked for his autograph, hastily dashed off the following:Our tobacco they plant, andour cotton they pick And our rice they can harvest and thrash; They feed us in health and they…