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Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Monday, June 22, 2026

The Prayer of Cyrus Brown

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Cyrus Brown and his advisers, on the posture of prayer: THE PRAYER OF CYRUS BROWN “The proper way for a man to pray,”   Said Deacon Lemuel K...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Search After Happiness

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I found the following in some old files, which I apparently wrote in June of 2020. The Search After Happiness The following hymn is an exc...
Saturday, December 23, 2023

’Twas the Night Before... What?

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“This volume is like a beautiful old picture which has come down to us in a state of extraordinary perfection.” Clement Clarke Moore (1779-...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

Three tombstone inscriptions

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Below are three tombstone inscriptions by which I was impressed. “Beneath this stone two sisters sleep who’ve left us here a while to weep; ...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

On Smyrna’s 150th Anniversary

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A Poem. On the sixteenth day of August In Eighteen Hundred Seventy-Three A church was constituted By a neighboring presbytery. From Zion Hil...
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Saturday, September 03, 2022

A critic of the sacred book

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From “ The Progress of Error ” by William Cowper And of all arts sagacious dupes invent, To cheat themselves and gain the world’s assent, Th...
Friday, August 26, 2022

The cross once seen

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From “ The Progress of Error ” by William Cowper But if the wanderer his mistake discern, Judge his own ways, and sigh for a return, Bewilde...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Ye scholars, hearken (again)

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1. Ye scholars, hearken unto me, Ye, who against my Bible be; Ye work and toil, the “King” to foil Therefore, its beauties do not see. 2. Ye...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

What Rules the World

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Blessings on the hand of woman! Angels guard her strength and grace, In the palace, cottage, hovel, Oh, no matter where the place. Would tha...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

Treasures

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Treasures .   The following poem was written by Martha Snell Nicholson . She was born 1888 in Nance County, Nebraska, the daughter of Samuel...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

God Knows

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O tired heart! God knows. Not you nor I. Who reach our hands for gifts That wise love must deny. We blunder where we fain would do our best ...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

My soul, there is a country

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“Peace” was written by Henry Vaughan ( 1621–1695 ). Henry Vaughan was a Welshman, born April 17, 1622, the son of Thomas Vaughan (d. 1658)....
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Avoid warping scripture

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Credited to William Cowper by Charles H. Spurgeon in Commenting and Commentaries . I have not located the original source. A critic on th...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Hymn Meter Again

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Here are miscellaneous comments on hymn meter that I have written or collected – some of which may need more context for clarification. I ha...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Explanation of Meter, from The Baptist Standard Hymnal

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The following explanation of Meter (the author prefers the spelling “Metre” which we do not as commonly use nowadays) is taken from The Bapt...
Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Us four, and no more

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Plea of the narcissist: God bless me and my wife, Our son John -- his wife, Us four, and no more.
Saturday, November 17, 2018

The way is short

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Below is an almost unreadable epitaph on a tombstone at the Isabell (Isbell) Chapel Cemetery at Sand Hill, Rusk County, Texas. The name on ...
Sunday, November 04, 2018

The Stretcher Bearer

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Would you be my stretcher bearers, when I can no longer stand?  Would you each pick up a corner of my pallet in your hand?  This burden’s ...
Saturday, July 01, 2017

The Gospel Colors

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I read the following poem in the July 2017 Voice of Faith newsletter. It is uncredited, so I don't know who wrote it. It seems designed...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

God’s Man

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I strive to be God's Man... -- A Poem by John R. Himes as found at Pulpit Poetry blogspot. God’s Man By John R. Himes (Grandson ...