Category: Poetry
To those who may favor these pages with perusal, I make this earnest request: that, if they commence, they will read all. Knowing that the best mode of dealing with doubts is to state and refute, successively, I regret that the plan of the present work forces a separation of t...
When Man compares his body and his mind, And tries the power of each, he magnifies The mind to Deity, and yet how small Compared with what it has to learn! The more Man knows, t...
6. Part 6With many, God’s foreknowledge binds free-will; He knows the future, how each man will act, And man can never change from what God knows. They reason thus, that prescience is de...
3. Part 3But law must value every man alike, And cannot save one man, or thousand men, From future evil, only possible, By greatest evil to another man, In its own view of justice. Nor c...
1. Part 1To those who may favor these pages with perusal, I make this earnest request: that, if they commence, they will read all. Knowing that the best mode of dealing with doubts is to...
5. Part 5And in and out those Gates of Pearl, there streamed A ceaseless throng of Angels, errand bound. From one came forth a band of choristers, With shining harps, and sweeping out th...
4. Part 4In all these things, Self stands behind the scenes, And men see not the force that moves them on. But in the boudoir, ’tis enthroned supreme, And does not care to hide the clove...
2. Part 2But law itself, and the obeying world, Are proofs against the grosser form of Fate: That all is preordained, nor can be changed. All human life is vacillating life; We make our...
8. Part 8The bell the knell of evening lecture tolls, The thronging students pour from every door; The tutor gathers up his notes and rolls, And homeward wends his weary way once more.