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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
Lines suggested by hearing the beach, at F. Peabody's Mills, South Salem.
[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
Death of Lafayette
Old Age
Lines
Kind Words
Pleasure
[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 Stars
The Snow Bird
Memory
Memory
King Philip
The Painted Columbine
The Frozen Ship
My Mother's Voice
The Arab Steed
Hymn,
Song
Washington
The Autumn Leaf
The Winter Bird
The Boy's Dream
[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
The Portrait
The Canary Bird
The Tree
The Fossil Flower
The April Snow
Nature
An Evening Walk
Beauty
The Voice of God
The Wind-Flower
The Sabbatia
The Passage Bird
A Sonnet
The Columbine
The Robin
Hymn
The Stranger's Gift
The New Birth
The Journey
“In Him we live, & move, & have our being”
Enoch
The Son
Love
Day
Night
The Coming
The Morning Watch
The Weary and Heavy Laden
The Garden
The Song
The Spirit Land
The Slave
The Bread from Heaven
The Latter Rain
The Word
Worship
The Living God
Time
The Violet
The Heart
The Trees of Life
The Soldier of the Cross
The Spirit
The Serpent
The Dead
The Presence
The Lost
The Robe
The Will
The War
Life
The Reaper
Simmons Mobile Alabama
Winter
John
The Flight
The Priest
The Resurrection
My Father's House
The Servant
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
The Thorns
The River
The New Jerusalem
The Cross
Nature
Ye Gave Me No Meat
Day Unto Day Uttereth Speech
Labor and Rest
The Disciple
The Mountain
The Mustard Seed
Eden
My meat and drink
Forgive me my trespasses
The Star
The Watchman
The Prison
The Prophet
The Flood
The Corrupt Tree
The Pure in Heart
The Complaint
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit
The First shall be Last
The Laborer
Thy Brother's Blood
The Graveyard
Sacrifice
The Son of Man
The Ark
The Father
Rachel
Christmas
The Earth
The Hours
The Christ
The Things Before
The Cup
Old Things are passed away
The Harvest
The City
The Rose
Faith
The Jew
Spring
The Temple
The White Horse
The Tent
My Sheep
The Corner Stone
The Good Ground
The Beginning and The End
Nature
Morning
The Temptation
Help
Change
The Poor
They Who Hunger
Who Hath Ears To Hear Let Him Hear!
The Sign
The Tree
The Meek
The Desert
The Clay
The Altar
Praise
Terror
The Prayer
Humility
Forgiveness
The Heavenly Rest
Compassion
The Rock
To notice other days were pages given
The Crocus
The Plant
I am the Way
The Kingdom of God Is within you
My Church
The Charge
The Sabbath
The Invitation
The Preacher
Come unto me
Flee to the mountains
Blessed are they that mourn
Faith
Redeeming the time
'Tis Finished
Effort
To the pure all things are pure
The Task
Spring
The Day
The Strong Man
The Warrior
The Acorn
The Shelter
The Harvest
The Husbandman
The Last
The Call
The Promise
Joy
Hope
Relief
Joy
The Creation
The Snare
The Yoke
The Promise
The Path of Peace
Obedience
Grief
The Reward
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
The Foe
Yet Once More
The Humble
Comfort
The Guest
The Eagles
Then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn
Repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand
The Name
The Mourner
The Giants
To the Fishermen
The Sower
Charity
The Created
To All
The Unrevealed
Sayings
The Prisoner
Eternal Life
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
The Holy of Holies
The Brethren
The Prodigal
The Fig Tree
The Branch
Not as the World giveth
The Good Gift
History
The Spirit Land
Thy Father's House
Jacob's Well
The Day of Denial
Spiritual Darkness
The New World
The Word
The Field and Wood
The Apostles
The House
The Tenant
This Morn
The Call
The Prayer
The Bride
My Garden
The Unripe Fruit
The Immortal
The Serving-Man
The Cottage
The Still-Born
To-Day
The Withered Tree
The Hour
The Old Road
The Fair Morning
The Clouded Morning
The Plagues of Egypt
The Dark Day
The Removal
The Rain
The Frost
Autumn Days
Autumn Leaves
The Lost Sheep
The Shepherd's Life
The Good Samaritan
The Birds of Passage
The Feast
The Ramble
The Barberry Bush
The Hand and the Foot
The Eye and Ear
The Sunset
Yourself
Thy Better Self
The Glutton
The Day not for Gain
The World
The House Not Made With Hands, Eternal In The Heavens
The Broken Bowl
The Bunch of Flowers
Hymn
The Ghost
The Seasons
The Silent
The Way
The Sun
The Worm
The Watcher
The Physician
The Miser
The Spheres
The Builders
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 Good
The Distant
A Word
The Settler
The Dwellings of the Just
Death
The Birth-Day of the Soul
The Bee Hive
Time's House
The Fox and the Bird
Faith and Light
The Word
The Absent
The Pilgrim
The Idler
The Lost
The Narrow Way
The True Light
The Invitation
The Sick
The Flesh
Decay
The New Sea
The Baker's Island Light
The Gifts of God
The Sepulchre Of The Books
The Robin's Song
The Wounded Pigeon
The Swift
The World
The Evening Choir
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.
God Not Afar Off
The Indian's Retort
The Widow
Impatience
Abdolonymus—The Sidonian
The Arrival
The Soul's Preparation For Adversity
Change In The Seasons
The Just Shall Live by Faith
Salem
Spring in the Soul
Nature's Invitation
Christ's Compassion
Hymn
The Man of Science
The Congress Of Peace At Brussels
'Tis A Great Thing to Live
The Indian's Petition
The Struggle
The Things Before
The Dying Leaf
The New Body
The Clock
On The Sudden Snow
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
The Sumach Leaves
The Just
Slavery
The Fugitive Slaves
The Lost Sheep
Thoughts and Desires
Hymn
The Soul's Rest
The Sliding Rock
The Potato Blight
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
The Dead Elm
Hymn
The Camphene Lamp
The Homeless Wind
What Of The Night?
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
Hymn
The Triennial
Welcome
The Child's Answer
Freedom And Union
The Cross
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
The King's Arm Chair
The Falling Leaf
National Unity
Faith In Time Of War
Hymn
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
Hymn
Hymn In Drought
The Rain
The Fair Morning
The Clouded Morning
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
Primitive Worship
The Holy Land
Standley's Grove
October
The Soldier and the Statesman
The Triumphs of Science, And of Faith
Christian Influence
The Reconciling Power
The Heralds of the Spring
The Bridge of Time
Our Dear Mother
Hymn
The Whiteweed
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
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Simmons Mobile Alabama
O may I see thy face for without thee
The day returns but round no brightness pours
The light returns I see thy face again—
Poem No. 376; mid-September to mid-December 1838
Jones Very : The Complete Poems
