Voices from Prison: Being a Selection of Poetry from Various Prisoners, Written Within the Cell ...C. & J. M. Spear, 1847 - 126 páginas |
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... faith , our hope , our courage try , And mak'st us valiant where we thought to fly : Through thee , the crown of Victory we take . Thy fires but purify our gold from dross ; Once undiscerned , our value now appears , Which shall , at ...
... faith , our hope , our courage try , And mak'st us valiant where we thought to fly : Through thee , the crown of Victory we take . Thy fires but purify our gold from dross ; Once undiscerned , our value now appears , Which shall , at ...
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... faith and reason are both shocked to find Man in the post of honor , thee behind . My soul ! rest happy in thy low estate , Nor hope nor wish to be esteemed or great : To take the impression of a Will Divine , Be that thy glory , and ...
... faith and reason are both shocked to find Man in the post of honor , thee behind . My soul ! rest happy in thy low estate , Nor hope nor wish to be esteemed or great : To take the impression of a Will Divine , Be that thy glory , and ...
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... faith and reason are both shocked to find Man in the post of honor , thee behind . My soul ! rest happy in thy low estate , Nor hope nor wish to be esteemed or great : To take the impression of a Will Divine , Be that thy glory , and ...
... faith and reason are both shocked to find Man in the post of honor , thee behind . My soul ! rest happy in thy low estate , Nor hope nor wish to be esteemed or great : To take the impression of a Will Divine , Be that thy glory , and ...
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... FAITH . The trials that those men do meet withall , That are obedient to the heavenly call , Are manifold , and suited to the flesh , And come , and come , and come again afresh ; That now , or sometime else , we by them may Be taken ...
... FAITH . The trials that those men do meet withall , That are obedient to the heavenly call , Are manifold , and suited to the flesh , And come , and come , and come again afresh ; That now , or sometime else , we by them may Be taken ...
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... faith's red cross held closely to the breast ? Oh , Author of my being ! of my bliss Beneficent dispenser ; wondrous power , Whose eye , all - searching , through this dreary gloom Discerns the deepest secrets of the soul , Assist me ...
... faith's red cross held closely to the breast ? Oh , Author of my being ! of my bliss Beneficent dispenser ; wondrous power , Whose eye , all - searching , through this dreary gloom Discerns the deepest secrets of the soul , Assist me ...
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Voices From Prison: Being a Selection of Poetry From Various Prisoners ... Charles Spear Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Términos y frases comunes
BANISH'D MINDES beautiful bless bliss breast bright brow Bunyan captive cell chain cheer confinement convict CORNHILL crime crown dark dear death deep divine doth dungeon ELIZABETH FRY execution eyes faith Fantastick Farewell fear flowers Fotheringay Castle Francis Todd give gloom grief happy hath heart Heaven holy imprisoned innocence J. M. SPEAR John Bunyan Judge Jeffries labors LADY JANE GREY liberty lone Lord lov'd Madame Guyon mercy MONTGOMERY MONUMENT OF BANISH'D morning Mother Ned Ward Newgate Prison night Note o'er painted penitentiary Pilgrim's Progress Pillory PLACIDO poems Poet POETRY From various prayer Prisoner of Chillon Prisoner's Address Prisoner's Friend ring poems SELECTION OF POETRY sigh slave smile solitude song sorrow soul speak sweet tears Tell thee thine thought thrilling various Prisoners verse volume walls words world is shut wretched written York Castle youth
Pasajes populares
Página 68 - Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ! Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie.
Página 36 - Oh, it is good to soar These bolts and bars above, To Him whose purpose I adore, Whose providence I love, And in Thy mighty will to find The joy, the freedom of the mind.
Página 69 - If potentates reply, Give potentates the lie. Tell men of high condition, That rule affairs of state, Their purpose is ambition, Their practice, only hate ; And if they once reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell...
Página 71 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust. My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Página 70 - Tell fortune of her blindness, Tell nature of decay, Tell friendship of unkindness, Tell justice of delay. And if they will reply, Then give them all the lie.
Página 86 - So thick the boughis and the leavis greene Beshaded all the alleys that there were, And mids of every arbour might be seen The sharpe, greene, sweete juniper, Growing so fair, with branches here and there, That, as it seemed to a lyf without, The boughis spread the arbour all about.
Página 58 - Let them live ; " some, " Let them die.' Some said, " John, print it ;" others said, " Not so." Some said, " It might do good ;" others said,
Página 61 - He that is down needs fear no fall ; He that is low no pride ; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his Guide.
Página 93 - GREAT monarch of the world, from whose power springs The potency and power of kings, Record the royal woe my suffering sings ; And teach my tongue, that ever did confine Its faculties in truth's seraphick line, To track the treasons of thy foes and mine.
Página 103 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.