A Song to DavidWilliam Andrews & Company, 1898 - 51 pages |
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Abishag Adoration Beauteous beneath Whose eyes Bezoar BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST bless Blest light bloom bright angel Bright effluence briny broad British Poets call thy Cambridge Carnan cherub CHRIST Christopher Smart Citterns darts of lustre earth from man's editions of Chambers English Literature eternal Fellow of Pembroke Galbanum gems Gier-eagle Gilfillan's Specimens Gives balm Glede Glorious God-the mighty source grace Grutch harp HARVARD COLLEGE heart heaven hid in earth hymns Israel literary London Lord are seven lustre sheath man's device master's stamp masterpiece Michal Midwife mines beneath monuments of God's Newbery pangs that rage passion poem Poetical Essay poetry Poets praise Prayed prayer precious Psalms reader reprint Robert H Saviour seraph silver Silverlings and crusions SMART'S SONG Song to David soul spotted ounce stanzas strength depends Strong Supreme Sweet thine things-the stupendous force thorns that pierc Thyine topaz blazing triumphed o'er TUTIN verse vols West Newton Whence Xiphias
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Page 37 - Sweet is the dew that falls betimes, And drops upon the leafy limes ; Sweet, Hermon's fragrant air: Sweet is the lily's silver bell, And sweet the wakeful tapers' smell That watch for early prayer.
Page 44 - No, Sir; he has partly as much exercise as he used to have, for he digs in the garden. Indeed, before his confinement, he used for exercise to walk to the alehouse; but he was carried back again. I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else.
Page 38 - Strong is the horse upon his speed; Strong in pursuit the rapid glede, Which makes at once his game : Strong the tall ostrich on the ground; Strong through the turbulent profound Shoots Xiphias to his aim. Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball — like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong the gier-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide the enormous whale Emerges as he goes.
Page 39 - Beauteous the moon full on the lawn ; And beauteous when the veil's withdrawn, The virgin to her spouse : Beauteous the temple, decked and filled When to the heaven of heavens they build Their heart-directed vows.
Page 20 - The world, the clustering spheres. He made; The glorious light, the soothing shade. Dale, champaign, grove, and hill: The multitudinous abyss.
Page 26 - Tell them, I AM, Jehovah said To Moses; while earth heard in dread, And, smitten to the heart, At once above, beneath, around, All Nature, without voice or sound, Replied, O LORD, THOU ART.
Page 30 - For Adoration seasons change, And order, truth, and beauty range, Adjust, attract, and fill : The grass the polyanthus checks; And polished porphyry reflects, By the descending rill. Rich almonds colour to the prime For Adoration ; tendrils climb, And fruit-trees pledge their gems; And Ivis, with her gorgeous vest, Builds for her eggs her cunning nest, And bell-flowers bow their stems.
Page 41 - Glorious th' assembled fires appear; Glorious the comet's train: Glorious the trumpet and alarm; Glorious th' Almighty's stretched-out arm; Glorious th' enraptured main: Glorious the northern lights a-stream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious...
Page 44 - I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it.
Page 18 - His muse, bright angel of his verse, Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce, For all the pangs that rage; Blest light, still gaining on the gloom, The more than Michal of his bloom, The Abishag of his age.