Voices from Prison: Being a Selection of Poetry from Various Prisoners, Written Within the Cell ...C. & J. M. Spear, 1847 - Всего страниц: 126 |
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... pleasures fled , Of happy faces long since dead ; Of kind companions , loved , adored , Who gathered round our frugal board , To cheer the passing day . It comes to tell of seasons bright , Which have TO MY SISTER ON HER BIRTH DAY . 23 ...
... pleasures fled , Of happy faces long since dead ; Of kind companions , loved , adored , Who gathered round our frugal board , To cheer the passing day . It comes to tell of seasons bright , Which have TO MY SISTER ON HER BIRTH DAY . 23 ...
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... pleasure , Ever flowing , healing balm . Are we in affliction cradled ? Thou canst make the bitter sweet , And by thy support enabled , Human ills we calmly meet . Thou the sin - sick soul can lighten , When the clouds of darkness lower ...
... pleasure , Ever flowing , healing balm . Are we in affliction cradled ? Thou canst make the bitter sweet , And by thy support enabled , Human ills we calmly meet . Thou the sin - sick soul can lighten , When the clouds of darkness lower ...
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... pleasure to deep misery . III . I knew him in childhood , in boyhood , in youth , Ere his heart knew of sorrow or guile , When the words from his lips were regarded as truth , And his face wore an innocent smile . IV . I have known when ...
... pleasure to deep misery . III . I knew him in childhood , in boyhood , in youth , Ere his heart knew of sorrow or guile , When the words from his lips were regarded as truth , And his face wore an innocent smile . IV . I have known when ...
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... pleasures to share , To stray where I please , and to breathe the fresh air . Ye fishes so nimble , that sport in the stream , Revived by the warmth of the sun's cheering beam , No more shall I witness your skill in the wave , Debarred ...
... pleasures to share , To stray where I please , and to breathe the fresh air . Ye fishes so nimble , that sport in the stream , Revived by the warmth of the sun's cheering beam , No more shall I witness your skill in the wave , Debarred ...
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... pleasures to taste , I leave not a muscle unstrain'd . But is it with wealth that decays , I'd feign see my coffers overflow , Or garlands of popular praise , I seek to encircle my brow ? I would not with warriors tread , Through rivers ...
... pleasures to taste , I leave not a muscle unstrain'd . But is it with wealth that decays , I'd feign see my coffers overflow , Or garlands of popular praise , I seek to encircle my brow ? I would not with warriors tread , Through rivers ...
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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
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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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,
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.