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Sigourney, L. H. (1791-1865)

RADIANT CLOUDS AT SUNSET.

SOLITUDE.

BARZILLAI THE GILEADITE.

APPEAL FOR MISSIONS.

KING JOHN.

THE UNCHANGED OF THE TOMB.

MONTPELIER.

NORMAN KNIGHTS AND MONKS OF ELY.

THE LAST SUPPER.

RETURN TO CONNECTICUT.

“WHITHER SHALL I FLEE FROM THY PRESENCE?”

THE SABBATH BELL.

A COTTAGE SCENE.

THE BOY'S LAST BEQUEST

GIFT OF A BIBLE.

PRAISE.

ON THE DEATH OF A SISTER, WHILE ABSENT AT SCHOOL.

THE WAR-SPIRIT.

THE BITTERNESS OF DEATH.

TO THE MEMORY OF A YOUNG LADY.

SLAVERY.

EVENING THOUGHTS.

TO THE OCEAN.

COLUMBUS BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA.

“CHARITY BEARETH ALL THINGS.”

“THE FASHION OF THIS WORLD PASSETH AWAY.”

THE BURMANS AND THEIR MISSIONARY.

DEATH OF A BEAUTIFUL BOY.

SABBATH MORNING.

THE DESERT FLOWER.

THE SOUTH GEORGIAN LARK.

FLORA'S PARTY.

THE LAST WORD OF THE DYING.

SCENE AT THE DEATH-BED OF THE REVEREND DR. PAYSON.

THE CHILDREN OF HENRY FIRST.

THE SILVER AND THE GOLD ARE MINE.

WINTER HYMN.

BERNARDINE DU BORN.

COLD WATER.

THE AFRICAN MOTHER AT HER DAUGHTER'S GRAVE.

THE INSTITUTION.

ON THE DEATH OF A MOTHER, SOON AFTER HER INFANT SON.

THE WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH.

HEAVEN BRIGHTER THAN EARTH.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A LADY.

THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT.

FAREWELL TO AN ANCIENT CHURCH.

CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH.

THE HEART OF KING ROBERT BRUCE.

“'T WAS BUT A BABE.”

“ONLY THIS ONCE.”

THE KNELL.

THE LIBERATED CONVICT.

THE BELL OF ST. REGIS.

THE ANGEL'S SONG.

THE MARTYR OF SCIO.

PARTING OF A MOTHER WITH HER CHILD.

INDIAN NAMES.

MARRIAGE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB.

MISSION HYMN.

THE POET BRAINERD.

THE TOMB.

“THOU HAST MADE DESOLATE ALL MY COMPANY.”

THE EXECUTION.

MORNING.

BAPTISM OF AN INFANT, AT ITS MOTHER'S FUNERAL.

THE LONELY CHURCH.

PAUL AT ATHENS.

THE DISOBEDIENT SON.

“BLESSED ARE THE DEAD.”

FIRST GIFT TO THE INDIANS AT ALBANY.

MEETING OF THE BLIND WITH THE DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND.

THE CONSUMPTIVE GIRL.

CREATION.

MARRIAGE HYMN.

METHUSELAH.

“IN THE GARDEN WAS A SEPULCHRE.”

MUSINGS.

THE DYING PHILOSOPHER.

A MOTHER IN HEAVEN TO HER DYING BABE.

THE TOMB OF ABSALOM.

THE LOST DARLING.

THE SCHOOL-MISTRESS.

THE SAILOR'S FUNERAL.

ZAMA.

DEATH OF A MISSIONARY TO LIBERIA.

THE MOURNING LOVER.

PICTURE OF A SLEEPING INFANT, WATCHED BY A DOG.

ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOLS IN AFRICA.

ROME.

A DOOR OPENED IN HEAVEN.

PASSAGE OF THE BERESINA.

ON THE DEATH OF A POET.

SCENE AT ATHENS, DURING THE REVOLUTION.

ON THE DEATH OF MISS HANNAH ADAMS.

DEATH OF A MISSIONARY.

THE LITTLE HAND.

HEBREW DIRGE.

ON LAYING THE CORNER-STONE OF THE MONUMENT TO THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON.

DREAM OF THE DEAD.

TO BEREAVED PARENTS.

THE SEA.

THE SECOND BIRTH-DAY.

ON A PICTURE OF PENITENCE.

THE NINETIETH BIRTH-DAY.

THOUGHTS AT THE FUNERAL OF A RESPECTED FRIEND.

THE BAPTISM.

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MARRIAGE HYMN.

Not for the summer-hour alone,
When skies resplendent shine,
And youth and pleasure fill the throne,
Our hearts and hands we join.

But for those stern and wintry days
Of peril, pain and fear,
When Heaven's wise discipline doth make
This earthly journey drear.

Not for this span of life alone,
Which as a blast doth fly,
And like the transient flower of grass,
Just blossom, droop and die.

But for a being without end,
This vow of love we take,
Grant us, Oh God! one home at last,
For our Redeemer's sake.