The Select Poetical Works of James MontgomeryPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1854 - 471 pages |
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... wake and see the morning shine , And all around me gay ; But nothing I behold is mine , No , not the light of day ; - No , not the very breath I draw ; These limbs are not my own ; A master calls me his by law , My griefs are mine alone ...
... wake and see the morning shine , And all around me gay ; But nothing I behold is mine , No , not the light of day ; - No , not the very breath I draw ; These limbs are not my own ; A master calls me his by law , My griefs are mine alone ...
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... Wake to fresh miseries every morn . Gay as young goldfinches in spring , They chirp'd and peck'd , top - full of joy , As if it was some mighty thing To be a chimney - sweeper's boy . And so it is , on such a day As welcome Easter ...
... Wake to fresh miseries every morn . Gay as young goldfinches in spring , They chirp'd and peck'd , top - full of joy , As if it was some mighty thing To be a chimney - sweeper's boy . And so it is , on such a day As welcome Easter ...
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... To Thee my spirit flies : My heart with grief is breaking , Scarce can my voice complain ; Mine eyes , with tears kept waking , Still watch and weep in vain The days of old , in vision , Bring vanish'd 78 SONGS OF ZION . Psalm LXXVII.
... To Thee my spirit flies : My heart with grief is breaking , Scarce can my voice complain ; Mine eyes , with tears kept waking , Still watch and weep in vain The days of old , in vision , Bring vanish'd 78 SONGS OF ZION . Psalm LXXVII.
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... wake our tongues Turn our captivity , O Lord ! As southern rivers , at thy word , Bound from their channels , and restore Plenty , where all was waste before . Who sow in tears shall reap in joy ; Naught shall the precious seed destroy ...
... wake our tongues Turn our captivity , O Lord ! As southern rivers , at thy word , Bound from their channels , and restore Plenty , where all was waste before . Who sow in tears shall reap in joy ; Naught shall the precious seed destroy ...
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... wake of moonlight through their deepest shade . Anon he found himself on Newbury's plain , Walking among the dying and the slain ; At every step in blood his foot was dyed , He heard expiring groans on every side . The battle - thunder ...
... wake of moonlight through their deepest shade . Anon he found himself on Newbury's plain , Walking among the dying and the slain ; At every step in blood his foot was dyed , He heard expiring groans on every side . The battle - thunder ...
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Page 75 - HAIL to the Lord's Anointed, Great David's greater Son ; Hail, in the time appointed, His reign on earth begun ; He comes to break oppression, To set the captive free, To take away transgression, And rule in equity.
Page 445 - So when my latest breath Shall rend the veil in twain, By death I shall escape from death, And life eternal gain. Knowing as I am known, How shall I love that word, And oft repeat before the throne,
Page 76 - And love, joy, hope, like flowers, Spring in His path to birth ; Before Him, on the mountains, Shall peace, the herald, go, And righteousness, in fountains, From hill to valley flow.
Page 127 - Make way for Liberty!" he cried; Their keen points met from side to side; He bowed amongst them like a tree, And thus made way for Liberty. Swift to the breach his comrades fly; "Make way for Liberty!
Page 57 - Through the valley and shadow of death though I stray, Since thou art my Guardian, no evil I fear ; Thy rod shall defend me, thy staff be my stay; No harm can befall with my Comforter near.
Page 235 - Once, in the flight of ages past, There lived a man — and who was he ? Mortal, howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled thee.
Page 443 - Here, in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.
Page 455 - At eve hold not thine hand ; To doubt and fear give thou no heed, Broad-cast it o'er the land. Beside all waters sow, The highway furrows stock, Drop it where thorns and thistles grow, Scatter it on the rock.
Page 347 - FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our final rest, Living or dying, none were blest.
Page 235 - The clouds and sunbeams, o'er his eye That once their shades and glory threw, Have left in yonder silent sky No vestige where they flew. The annals of the human race, Their ruins, since the world began, Of him afford no other trace Than this, — there lived a man...