Category: Poetry
For some remarks on the nature and history of the _Sonnet_ and its peculiar excellence, as exemplified by Milton, the reader is referred to the Notes at the close of this book. The Author regards it as by its fixed laws and its structure the very best form of poetry for one sh...
_Sonnet 5._ After the existence of one God there is no truth so astonishing and holding such a power over the human heart, as the death of the Son of God on the cross for the si...
3. Part 3O, blessed, first-born Son of God most high, By whom the sun and all the worlds of light Were summon'd from the gloom of deepest night, While this low earth was shap'd before th...
7. Part 7In the third chapter of John we read, that Christ said to Nicodemus,――"If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not; how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly thi...
4. Part 4SARAH, my much-lov'd grandchild, thou dost bear An ancient name of honor; on this day, Which marks just sixteen years, quick fled away Since first thou didst draw in the vital a...
2. Part 2I've struck the milk-white quartz with gentle blow, And split with hammer fragment from the rock, When lo, unquarried by the shiv'ring shock, The precious Em'rald's crystal beau...
6. Part 6The catholic may use the term _mystery_ as a cover for absurdity and contempt of reason, or in support of a contradiction, and as an excuse for idolatry; but surely God's Bible...
1. Part 1For some remarks on the nature and history of the _Sonnet_ and its peculiar excellence, as exemplified by Milton, the reader is referred to the Notes at the close of this book....