Poems

Welcome Cross ‘Tis my happiness below Not to live without the cross, But the Saviour’s power to know, Sanctifying every loss; Trials must and will befall; […]

Welcome to the Table This is the feast of heavenly wine, And God invites to sup; The juices of the living Vine Were press’d to fill […]

Wisdom (Proverbs, viii. 22-31) “Ere God had built the mountains, Or raised the fruitful hills; Before he fill’d the fountains That feed the running rills; In […]

A Forest Hymn The groves were God’s first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,—ere […]

A Song of Pitcairn’s Island Come, take our boy, and we will go Before our cabin door; The winds shall bring us, as they blow, The […]

After a Tempest The day had been a day of wind and storm;– The wind was laid, the storm was overpast,– And stooping from the zenith, […]

Consumption Ay, thou art for the grave; thy glances shine Too brightly to shine long; another Spring Shall deck her for men’s eyes—but not for thine— […]

Hymn of the City Not in the solitude Alone may man commune with heaven, or see Only in savage wood And sunny vale, the present Deity; […]

Hymn To Death Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My voice unworthy of […]

Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full […]