Children poems

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Psalm 111 part 2

© Isaac Watts

Great is the Lord; his works of might
Demand our noblest songs:
Let his assembled saints unite
Their harmony of tongues.

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Psalm 103 part 2

© Isaac Watts

v.8-18
L. M.
God's gentle chastisement; or, His tender mercy to his people.

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Psalm 102 part 3

© Isaac Watts

v.23-28
L. M.
Man's mortality, and Christ's eternity.

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Hymn 99

© Isaac Watts

Vain are the hopes that rebels place
Upon their birth and blood,
Descended from a pious race;
Their fathers now with God.

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Hymn 92

© Isaac Watts

Shall Wisdom cry aloud,
And not her speech be heard?
The voice of God's eternal Word,
Deserves it no regard?

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Hymn 30

© Isaac Watts

In thine own ways, O God of love,
We wait the visits of thy grace,
Our soul's desire is to thy name,
And the remembrance of thy face.

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Hymn 157

© Isaac Watts

Now Satan comes with dreadful roar
And threatens to destroy;
He worries whom he can't devour
With a malicious joy.

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Hymn 144

© Isaac Watts

Why should the children of a King
Go mourning all their days?
Great Comforter! descend and bring
Some tokens of thy grace.

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Hymn 143

© Isaac Watts

So new-born babes desire the breast,
To feed, and grow, and thrive;
So saints with joy the gospel taste,
And by the gospel live.

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Hymn 121

© Isaac Watts

Thus saith the mercy of the Lord,
"I'll be a God to thee;
I'll bless thy num'rous race, and they
Shall be a seed for me."

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Hymn 114

© Isaac Watts

Gentiles by nature, we belong
To the wild olive wood;
Grace took us from the barren tree,
And grafts us in the good.

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Hymn 113

© Isaac Watts

How large the promise, how divine,
To Abram and his seed!
"I'll be a God to thee and thine,
Supplying all their need."

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Examples of Early Piety

© Isaac Watts

What blest examples do I find
Writ in the Word of Truth
Of children that began to mind
Religion in their youth!

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Against Scoffing and Calling Names

© Isaac Watts

Our tongues were made to bless the Lord,
And not speak ill of men:
When others give a railing word,
We must not rail again.

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Against Quarreling and Fighting

© Isaac Watts

Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so:
Let bears and lions growl and fight,
For 'tis their nature, too.

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Flophouse

© Charles Bukowski

you haven't lived
until you've been in a
flophouse
with nothing but one

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The Blackbirds Are Rough Today

© Charles Bukowski

lonely as a dry and used orchard
spread over the earth
for use and surrender.

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We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain

© Charles Bukowski

call it the greenhouse effect or whatever
but it just doesn't rain like it used to.
I particularly remember the rains of the
depression era.

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Cows In Art Class

© Charles Bukowski

good weather
is like
good women-
it doesn't always happen