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Jones Very : The Complete Poems

Very, Jones (1813-1880)

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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 Fulness of The Gentiles

Swift speeds the time, the time long since foretold,
When all the nations shall be gathered in;
The scroll of Prophecy be all unrolled,
And a new Age, a grander Age begin.
By signs the day its coming doth portend,
In swifter intercourse the nations meet,
Old dynasties are hastening to their end,
The electric wire its circuits doth complete.
O Love, that did the Apostle's bosom swell,
And gave him knowledge of the mystery high,

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And fitting words, that mystery to tell;
Would that like him, we saw Christ's Kingdom nigh!
Come, Church Triumphant! in thy glory come;
And gather all earth's weary children home!

Poem No. 453; c. 8 July 1871