Jones Very : The Complete Poems

Very, Jones (1813-1880)

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[O heaven born muse! inspire my humble lay]

[The earth is parched with heat, flowers droop and die]

Lines,

Lines on Mount Auburn

[Hast thou ever heard the voice of nature]

“Ambitione inani pectus caret”

[What more delightful than to wander forth]

A Song Composed by Mr J. Very, to be Sung at the Class-Supper of the Sophomore Class of 1834

[Give me an eye, that manly deeds]

[I saw a child, whose eyes had never drank]

The New Year

Sleigh Ride

The Snow Drop

[Cold cold thy lips my gentle boy]

Spring

[The morn may lend its golden smile]

Lines

North River

Eheu! fugaces, Posthume, Posthume, Labuntur anni.

The Humming-Bird

Nature

Religion

A Withered Leaf—seen on a Poet's Table

The Painted Columbine

[I murmur not though hard the lot]

The Torn Flower

[The moon was shining on the deck]

[Home of my youth! Where first my lot was cast]

[Haunts of my youth farewell! A while I leave]

Death Decay and Change

“In Him we live, & move, & have our being”

The Weary and Heavy Laden

The Bread from Heaven

The Soldier of the Cross

Simmons Mobile Alabama

I Was Sick And In Prison

He Was Acquainted With Grief

The Fragments

The Winter Rain

Forbearance

The Wolf and the Lamb Shall Feed Together

The Rail Road

Behold He Is at Hand That Doth Betray Me

The Fruit

To Him That Hath Shall Be Given

Day Unto Day Uttereth Speech

Forgive me my trespasses

Whither shall I go from thy Spirit

The First shall be Last

Old Things are passed away

The Beginning and The End

Who Hath Ears To Hear Let Him Hear!

To notice other days were pages given

The Crocus

The Plant

I am the Way

The Kingdom of God Is within you

Flee to the mountains

Blessed are they that mourn

To the pure all things are pure

So is every one who is born of the spirit

The Seed

I am the Light of the World

The Apostle

The Message

I Am the Bread of Life

Then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn

Repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand

Unto you is born a Saviour

The Redeemed

Hallowed be thy Name

To him who overcometh

The Children

The New Man

The Veil of the Temple

Not as the World giveth

The Hand and the Foot

The House Not Made With Hands, Eternal In The Heavens

Give and it shall be given unto you.

The Laborers

The Unfaithful Servants

The Thieves

The Strangers

The Light from Within

[Thou know'st not what thy Lord will say]

The Dwellings of the Just

Death

The Birth-Day of the Soul

The Baker's Island Light

The Gifts of God

The Sepulchre Of The Books

The Cold Spring In North Salem

Lines on Reading the Death of Rev. Henry Ware, Jr.

Jonathan Huntington Bright

God's Host

The Worm

The White Dove And The Snow

The Latter Rain

Moses In Infancy

Moses at the Bush

Moses As Leader Of Israel

The New Jerusalem

The Autumn Flowers

The Death Of Man

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

Abdolonymus—The Sidonian

The Arrival

The Soul's Preparation For Adversity

Change In The Seasons

The Just Shall Live by Faith

The Congress Of Peace At Brussels

'Tis A Great Thing to Live

The Indian's Petition

On the late Disgraceful Scene in Congress

The Funerals

The New Aqueduct

The Soul's Freedom

Looking Before And After

The Succory

The Reapers Are The Angels

Congregational Singing

Kossuth

John Woolman

Hymn

The Wild Rose of Plymouth

Voting In The Old North Church

The Day Lily

The Solitary Worshipper

Sonnet,

The Mind The Greatest Mystery

The Conspiracy

The Horsemen on the Sands

My Dear Brother Washington

On Seeing The Victoria Regia In Bloom, At The Garden of J. Fisk Allen Esq. July 22d, 1853.

On Finding the Truth

Goliath

A Sunset In Haverhill

The Past

Hymn, Sung at the Thompson Jubilee, at Barre, Jan. 12, 1854

On The Nebraska Bill

On An Ear Of Wheat Brought, By My Brother, From The Field Of Waterloo

To the Memory of the Rev. James Flint, D.D.

McLean Asylum, Somerville

The Age Changeful and Worldly

Hymn

“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.”

To The Memory Of The Rev. James Chisholm

The Woodwax

The First Telegraphic Message

The Mission Of The Friends To The Emperor Nicholas

Be of Good Courage

To An Ancient Locust-Tree, Opposite Carltonville

A Walk In The Pastures

[O, cleave not to the things of earth]

Nature Intelligible

The Great Facts Of Christ's History

Freedom National, Slavery Sectional

Christ Abiding Forever

The South River At Sunset

On Receiving A Flower From the Rev. C. H. A. Dall, in India.

Hymn

Philosophy And Religion

The Day Begins to Dawn

On The Late Mild Winter

The Evergreen

Hindoo Converts On the Domestic Trials of Hindoo Converts.

The Soul's Invitation

Morning Hymn for a little Child

Nature Teaches only Love

The First Atlantic Telegraph

Life and Death

Lines On The Old Danvers Burying Ground

On Seeing The Portrait of Helen Ruthven Waterston

Hymn

The Moss and Its Teachings

On the Bunyan Tableau

The Lament Of The Flowers

The Voice In The Poplars

How Faith Comes

The Poet

The Set Times, And The Boundaries of Nations, Appointed By God

The Cemetery of Harmony Grove

Preparation for Life's Voyage

The Slowness of Belief in a Spiritual World

On reading the Memorial of John White Browne

Hymn

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. Ecclesiastes 1:4.

What of Our Country?

The Hour Before the Dawn

State Rights

The Rights of Man

A Longing For The Spring

The Abolition Of Serfdom In Russia

Fear not: for they that are with us are more than they that are with them. 2 Kings 6:16.

Hymn

Christ's Capture In The Garden A Paraphrase

Song

The Comet

Each Day a Prophecy

The Influence Of The Night on Faith And Imagination

Sunset in Derby's Woods

My People are destroyed for lack of Knowledge.

Autumn Flowers

Hymn

The Poet's Plea

On The Completion Of The Pacific Telegraph

On the First Church Built by the Puritans in 1634.

The Barque Aurelia of Boston

The traveller At The Depot

Salvation Is Of The Lord

The Newspaper

E Pluribus Unum

Song

This Mortal Shall put on Immortality

Hymn

The Elm Seed

The Cause

Outward Conquests Not Enough

Ship Rock

The Light Of Freedom Necessary To National Progress

Ode to Freedom

Philanthropy Before Nationality

Man's Heart Prophesieth Of Peace

Hymn

The Statue of Flora, On the grounds of R. Brookhouse Esq, Washington Street.

Hymn

The Tree of Liberty

Hymn

The Intuitions Of The Soul

Still a Day To Live

The Vagrant at the Church Door

Health of Body dependent on the Soul

The Crisis

The Forsaken Harvest Field

The Freedmen of the Mississippi Valley

Dying Words of John Foster “I Can Pray, And That's a Glorious Thing.”

Home and Heaven

The Search For The Truth Not Vain

On The Three Hundredth Anniversary of Shakespeare's Birthday

Hymn

Untimely Arguments

Hymn

The Voice of Nature in Youth And Age

Nature Repeats Her Lessons

What Is A Word?

To Charles W. Felt Esq. On His New Type-Setting Machine

The Young Drummer Boy of Libby Prison

Inward Direction

The Cherry Birds

The Soul's Questioning Of The Universe, And Its Beginning

Hymn

Soul-Sickness

Song of the Early Spring

Sensibility to the Beauty and Fragrance of Flowers

What Is The Word?

The Sight of the Ocean

Prayer For Rain

Hymn On The Logos

Hath The Rain A Father? Or Who Hath Begotten The Drops of Dew? Job 38:28

“It is vain to say, that this is the country of the ‘white man.’ It is the country of man.” Charles Sumner.

The East India Marine Museum

Finishing The Work

‘O Lord, How Long?’

Our Soldiers' Graves

The Still Small Voice

Indian Relics

The Veil upon the Heart

True Knowledge Necessary for the Voyage of Life

Sonnet

Nature's Help for the Soul

Nature a Living Teacher

The Soldier and the Statesman

The Triumphs of Science, And of Faith

Christian Influence

The Reconciling Power

The Heralds of the Spring

The Teachings of the Spirit

Hymn

The Help of the Spirit

The Birthright Church

Midas

Revelation

How come the Dead?

The Hacker School House

The Houstonia

To The Salem Gazette, On The Completion Of Its First Century

Ocean's Treasures

SONNETS ON RECONSTRUCTION

I. A Nation's Life Of Slow Growth

II. The Ends For Which A Nation Exists

III. Political Ambition

IV. National Unity

Reflections on the History of Nations

Scepticism With Regard To The Gospels

The Tide

The Spiritual Birth

The Youth and the Stream

The Daily News

On A Hyacinth From Georgia

Things Unseen

The Oak And The Poplar

The Sparrows And The Crop of Weeds

Ye have hoarded up treasure in the last days.—James 5:3.

Hymn

The Fireflies

Be Not Many Teachers

Military surprises and the capture of capitals, are the events of a by-gone age. D'Israeli.

The Bible Does Not Sanction Polygamy

Bitter-Sweet Rocks

Humanity Mourning For Her Children Slain In War

The Poor Clergyman

The Teaching Of History Confirmed

Childhood's Songs

Hymn,

The Lessons of History Unlearned

The Fulness of The Gentiles

To a Cloud

The Child's Dream of Reaching the Horizon

Lead Me To The Rock That Is Higher Than I

Forevermore

Man's First Experience of Winter

Interpreting God's Ways

I Prayed, Thy Kingdom Come

Justification By Faith

The First of May

On the Great Divisions of the Christian Church, The Catholic, the Protestant, and the Greek

The Nine O'Clock Bell

“Are there Few that be Saved?”

On Seeing the White Mountains from Cook's Hill, in West Peabody

Signs in the Natural World

A Walk in Harmony Grove

The Prayer of Jabez

The Life of the Flower

The Old Danvers Burying-Ground

Hymn

Norman's Rocks

On visiting the beautiful estate of H. H. Hunnewell, Esq., at Wellesley.

The Revelation of The Spirit Through The Material World

And a little child shall lead them. Isaiah XI. 6.

The Blessing of Rain

On the Mountain Ash Tree

October

The Mound Builders.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

There shall be one Flock, one Shepherd

Old Houses of Salem

Columbines and Anemones

The Hepatica in Winter

Reverence

Inward Phenomena

To the Memory of Alpheus Crosby

The Birds

Superfluities

Arethusa Meadow

The Night Blooming Cereus

On The Wild Flowers of the Art Exhibition

Interpreting Nature

The Incarnation

On a Lichen from North Cape

For we Walk by Faith, not by Sight

On the Neglect of Public Worship

Behold, I Make All Things New

Oliver C. Felton, Esq., of Brookfield

On the Increase of Crime since the Late Civil War

The Meteorologists

The Origin of Man

Sailing on Cakes of Ice in the North River

Original Hymn

The Faith of the First Christians

On the Great Earthquake in New Grenada

The Woodwax in Bloom

On Visiting the Graves of Hawthorne and Thoreau

On Viewing the Falls of Niagara, as Photographed by George Barker

Knowledge and Truth

Mt. Shasta.

Song

Nature Teaches Us of Time and its Duration

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. Mark 13:33.

The Ancient Burial Places in Peabody

Man's Need of a Spiritual Birth

On some Eternals from a friend's garden

Hymn

“Tuesday night, the schooner Weaver, of Glen Creek, N.J., went to pieces near Sandy Hook, and her entire crew were lost.”—Transcript, March 22d.

The Purification of the Temple

The May Flower

The International Exhibition at Philadelphia

Evolution

Capt. Samuel Cook

On the Beautiful Roses,

The Cows waiting at the Pasture Gate

Song

On some blue and golden Columbines from Pike's Peak, Colorado

The Stony Desert of Life

Cadmus

The True Worshipers

Song

The Gospel the Reconciling Power

Every Day a Day of Freedom

Hymn

On Hearing the Clock Strike, in Harmony Grove

The Indians' Belief in a Future State

The Telephone

Love Needing a Visible Object

The Perfect Love that Casts out Fear

The Glacial Marks on our Hills

The Future State of the Wicked and its Duration

Faith in the Resurrection Confirmed

Spring and Summer Flowers

The Return of the Columbine

Man's Accountability

Hymn

The Nodding Meadow Lily

The Destruction of Public Property by Mobs

Do Nations Ever Become Insane?

Know Thyself

The Blueberry Blossoms

William Cullen Bryant

“Agriculture the Source of Individual and of National Prosperity.”—Anne Pratt.

Pleasure

On The Late Tornado, At Wallingford, Conn.

Hymn

On the Neglect of the Study of History

Christ's Final Victory

Thanksgiving Flowers

Original Hymn

Our Lighthouses

The African's First Sight of the Ocean

The Zodiacal Light

Education

The Kingdom of Heaven

Azalea Swamp

Guido's Aurora

The Humming Bird

Jupiter as the Evening Star

The National Thanksgiving

The Stock-Gilly Flowers

Spiritual Intercourse

Invitation to the Robin

The Influence of Channing

[Here let the Church her holy mission prove]

The Puritan Church and State

Appeal

Influence of Puritanism

The Bible

The Common School

A Christian Commonwealth

Discontent

Conclusion

The Old Organ

On Some Beautiful Crocuses

The Return of the Savior

The Kingdom of the Truth

Sunset after a Clouded Day in April

Hymn

Friendship

Hymn

The Day calling us to a New Life

To the Misses Williams,

Jacob wrestling with the Angel

The Soul's Opportunities

The Book of Life

For the Sailors' Fair

Parting Hymn

The Peace Congress the Promise of a Higher Civilization

Hymn to the Living

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[Cold cold thy lips my gentle boy]

Cold cold thy lips my gentle boy
Thy mother presses now
And closed those eyes that beamed with joy
And marble white thy brow

I will not mourn—though sad the lot
Life brought to one so young
The grief my child is all forgot
It from thy bosom rung.

The light of joy that lit thine eye
Would not be fittened there
It sought above a brighter sky
An earth than this more fair.

Thy lips where dwelt that sweetest smile
Could not their guest detain
It came to linger there awhile
It could not long remain.

Thy voice—still still its accents sweet
Are whispering round my heart
And call me to that blissful seat
Where souls shall never part.

Poem No. 87a; spring 1835?

University of Virginia Library

[Cold cold thy lips my gentle boy]