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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

The Eagles

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

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SONNETS ON RECONSTRUCTION

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I. A Nation's Life Of Slow Growth

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II. The Ends For Which A Nation Exists

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III. Political Ambition

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IV. National Unity

Reflections on the History of Nations

Scepticism With Regard To The Gospels

The Spiritual Birth

The Youth and the Stream

On A Hyacinth From Georgia

The Oak And The Poplar

The Yellow Violets

The City of God

The Scholar Dreaming

Spiritual Darkness

The Sparrows And The Crop of Weeds

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

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

The Lessons of History Unlearned

The Fulness of The Gentiles

The Child's Dream of Reaching the Horizon

Lead Me To The Rock That Is Higher Than I

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

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

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

Inward Phenomena

To the Memory of Alpheus Crosby

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

English Sparrows

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

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

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

“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 International Exhibition at Philadelphia

Capt. Samuel Cook

On the Beautiful Roses,

The Cows waiting at the Pasture Gate

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

The Stony Desert of Life

The True Worshipers

The Gospel the Reconciling Power

Every Day a Day of Freedom

On Hearing the Clock Strike, in Harmony Grove

The Indians' Belief in a Future State

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

The Nodding Meadow Lily

The Destruction of Public Property by Mobs

The Barberry-Pickers

The Winter Night

Do Nations Ever Become Insane?

The Blueberry Blossoms

William Cullen Bryant

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

On The Late Tornado, At Wallingford, Conn.

On the Neglect of the Study of History

Christ's Final Victory

Thanksgiving Flowers

Our Lighthouses

The African's First Sight of the Ocean

The Zodiacal Light

The Kingdom of Heaven

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 Old Planters

Winthrop's Fleet

Arabella Johnson

[Here let the Church her holy mission prove]

The Puritan Church and State

Influence of Puritanism

The Common School

A Christian Commonwealth

On Some Beautiful Crocuses

The Return of the Savior

The Kingdom of the Truth

Sunset after a Clouded Day in April

The Day calling us to a New Life

To the Misses Williams,

Jacob wrestling with the Angel

The Soul in Dreams

Our Native Sparrows

Early Companions

The Soul's Opportunities

The Book of Life

For the Sailors' Fair

The Peace Congress the Promise of a Higher Civilization

Hymn to the Living

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The Eagles

The eagles gather on the place of death
So thick the ground is spotted with their wings,
The air is tainted with the noisome breath
The wind from off the field of slaughter brings;
Alas! no mourners weep them for the slain,
But all unburied lies the naked soul;
The whitening bones of thousands strew the plain,
Yet none can now the pestilence controul;
The eagles gathering on the carcase feed,
In every heart behold their half-formed prey;
The battened wills beneath their talons bleed,

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Their iron beaks without remorse must slay;
Till by the sun no more the place is seen,
Where they who worshipped idol gods have been.

Poem No. 490; fall 1838–summer 1839