Poems and Prose EssaysDavis & Company, 1841 |
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abode Adieu amid angels art thou beauteous behold beneath billows blessed blest blissful bosom breast breath breath'd bright brow calm celestial celestial sphere cheering CHELSEA Christ Christian Love crimson tide dark dead death deep Deity deluge dwells earth earthly eternal exalted fading creature Father flower frowning gaze gloomy glorious glory grave groan hand happiness Harp Harvard College hast hath heart Heaven heavenly holy Jehovah Jesu's Jesus joys Lamb Love in redemption majesty mercy Messiah mighty Minstrel Missionary mortal mournful Neath noble numbers o'er ocean Omnipotence peace perchance pious pleas'd pow'r praise prayer proclaims radiant flight realms reigns rejoice Religion rest roll ruin Satan Saviour seraphic shew shore sigh sink Sleep on-sleep slumber smile Son of God sorrow soul spirit sublimely sweet swell tear tempests thee thine thou three gates throne unto uprais'd voice wafted waves weep wings wrath
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Page 102 - And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth : and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Page 101 - And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
Page 121 - Die, he or justice must; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction ; death for death.
Page 99 - How shocking must thy summons be, O Death, To him that is at ease in his possessions; Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfurnish'd for that world to come ! In that dread moment, how the frantic soul Raves round the walls of her clay tenement, Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help ; But shrieks in vain ! How wishfully she looks On all she's leaving, now no longer hers!
Page 104 - And I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it : and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day : for there shall be no night there.
Page 57 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 102 - Having the glory of God : and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal...
Page 47 - Finds no acceptance, nor can find ; for how Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve Willing or no, who will but what the'y must By destiny, and can no other choose?
Page 102 - And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel...
Page 102 - On the east three gates ; on the north three gates; on the south three gates ; and on the west three gates.