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Jones Very : The Complete Poems
Very, Jones (1813-1880)
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SONNETS ON RECONSTRUCTION
1.
I. A Nation's Life Of Slow Growth
2.
II. The Ends For Which A Nation Exists
3.
III. Political Ambition
4.
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 Yellow Violets
The City of God
The Scholar Dreaming
Hymn
Spiritual Darkness
Friendship
The Sparrows And The Crop of Weeds
Ye have hoarded up treasure in the last days.—James 5:3.
Hymn
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
The Solitary Gentian
Indian Remains
English Sparrows
The Home
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
The Barberry-Pickers
Pompeii
The Communion
The Winter Night
The Coasters
The Message
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
The Calling
Endecott
Farewell
The Departure
The Petrels
At Sea
At Sea
The Sabbath
Land
Salem
The Landing
The Old Planters
Paradise
Naumkeck River
The Same
Winter
Location
The Home
The Home
Sickness
Longing
Winthrop's Fleet
Arabella Johnson
Spring
Motive
The Church
Worship
Song
[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
Hymn
Hymn
Friendship
Hymn
The Day calling us to a New Life
To the Misses Williams,
Jacob wrestling with the Angel
Rain Clouds
The Soul in Dreams
Our Native Sparrows
Hymn
Early Companions
The Gift
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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Jones Very : The Complete Poems
Jones Very : The Complete Poems
Jones Very
1813-1880
University of Georgia Press
Athens, London
[1993]
Jones Very : The Complete Poems