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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 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

[Give me an eye, that manly deeds]

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

[Cold cold thy lips my gentle boy]

[The morn may lend its golden smile]

Eheu! fugaces, Posthume, Posthume, Labuntur anni.

The Humming-Bird

A Withered Leaf—seen on a Poet's Table

The Painted Columbine

The Frozen Ship

My Mother's Voice

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 Canary Bird

The Fossil Flower

An Evening Walk

The Voice of God

The Wind-Flower

The Passage Bird

The Stranger's Gift

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

The Morning Watch

The Weary and Heavy Laden

The Spirit Land

The Bread from Heaven

The Latter Rain

The Trees of Life

The Soldier of the Cross

Simmons Mobile Alabama

The Resurrection

My Father's House

I Was Sick And In Prison

He Was Acquainted With Grief

The Winter Rain

The Wolf and the Lamb Shall Feed Together

Behold He Is at Hand That Doth Betray Me

To Him That Hath Shall Be Given

The New Jerusalem

Ye Gave Me No Meat

Day Unto Day Uttereth Speech

The Mustard Seed

My meat and drink

Forgive me my trespasses

The Corrupt Tree

The Pure in Heart

Whither shall I go from thy Spirit

The First shall be Last

Thy Brother's Blood

The Things Before

Old Things are passed away

The White Horse

The Corner Stone

The Good Ground

The Beginning and The End

They Who Hunger

Who Hath Ears To Hear Let Him Hear!

The Heavenly Rest

To notice other days were pages given

The Kingdom of God Is within you

Flee to the mountains

Blessed are they that mourn

Redeeming the time

To the pure all things are pure

The Path of Peace

So is every one who is born of the spirit

I am the Light of the World

I Am the Bread of Life

Then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn

Repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand

To the Fishermen

Unto you is born a Saviour

Hallowed be thy Name

To him who overcometh

The Veil of the Temple

The Holy of Holies

Not as the World giveth

The Spirit Land

Thy Father's House

The Day of Denial

Spiritual Darkness

The Field and Wood

The Unripe Fruit

The Serving-Man

The Withered Tree

The Fair Morning

The Clouded Morning

The Plagues of Egypt

The Shepherd's Life

The Good Samaritan

The Birds of Passage

The Barberry Bush

The Hand and the Foot

The Eye and Ear

Thy Better Self

The Day not for Gain

The House Not Made With Hands, Eternal In The Heavens

The Broken Bowl

The Bunch of Flowers

Give and it shall be given unto you.

The Unfaithful Servants

The Light from Within

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

The Dwellings of the Just

The Birth-Day of the Soul

The Fox and the Bird

Faith and Light

The Baker's Island Light

The Gifts of God

The Sepulchre Of The Books

The Robin's Song

The Wounded Pigeon

The Evening Choir

The Cold Spring In North Salem

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

Jonathan Huntington Bright

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

Abdolonymus—The Sidonian

The Soul's Preparation For Adversity

Change In The Seasons

The Just Shall Live by Faith

Spring in the Soul

Nature's Invitation

Christ's Compassion

The Man of Science

The Congress Of Peace At Brussels

'Tis A Great Thing to Live

The Indian's Petition

The Things Before

On The Sudden Snow

On the late Disgraceful Scene in Congress

The New Aqueduct

The Soul's Freedom

Looking Before And After

The Reapers Are The Angels

The Sumach Leaves

The Fugitive Slaves

Thoughts and Desires

The Soul's Rest

The Sliding Rock

The Potato Blight

Congregational Singing

The Wild Rose of Plymouth

Voting In The Old North Church

The Solitary Worshipper

The Mind The Greatest Mystery

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

A Sunset In Haverhill

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 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

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

To The Memory Of The Rev. James Chisholm

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.

Philosophy And Religion

The Day Begins to Dawn

On The Late Mild Winter

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

Lines On The Old Danvers Burying Ground

On Seeing The Portrait of Helen Ruthven Waterston

The Moss and Its Teachings

On the Bunyan Tableau

The Lament Of The Flowers

The Voice In The Poplars

How Faith Comes

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

The Child's Answer

Freedom And Union

On reading the Memorial of John White Browne

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

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.

Christ's Capture In The Garden A Paraphrase

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.

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

E Pluribus Unum

This Mortal Shall put on Immortality

Outward Conquests Not Enough

The Light Of Freedom Necessary To National Progress

Philanthropy Before Nationality

The King's Arm Chair

The Falling Leaf

Faith In Time Of War

Man's Heart Prophesieth Of Peace

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

The Tree of Liberty

The Intuitions Of The Soul

Still a Day To Live

The Vagrant at the Church Door

Health of Body dependent on the Soul

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

Untimely Arguments

The Voice of Nature in Youth And Age

Hymn In Drought

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

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

The Veil upon the Heart

True Knowledge Necessary for the Voyage of Life

Nature's Help for the Soul

Nature a Living Teacher

Primitive Worship

Standley's Grove

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

The Teachings of the Spirit

The Help of the Spirit

The Birthright Church

How come the Dead?

The Hacker School House

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

Ocean's Treasures

SONNETS ON RECONSTRUCTION

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Blessed are they that mourn

Blessed are they that mourn my life is theirs
The life I led on earth they too shall lead
Its joy and sorrows and its weight of cares
Shall all be theirs for in my name they bleed
Happy their lot for so I bid them grow
And finish here the work my Father gave
And when the weary day its end shall know
They shall through me rejoice them o'er the grave
Happy their death for they shall live again
When I in triumph come to claim the few
Who in my name the cross within have worn
And by their toils have found me just and true
Happy thrice happy those who seek my face
They shall not want for they shall find my grace.

Poem No. 70; fall 1838–summer 1839