Faith poems

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Song. Good Counsel to a Young Maid

© Thomas Carew

GAZE not on thy beauty's pride,
Tender maid, in the false tide
That from lovers' eyes doth slide.
Let thy faithful crystal show
How thy colours come and go :
Beauty takes a foil from woe.

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Boldness in Love

© Thomas Carew

Mark how the bashful morn in vain
Courts the amorous marigold,
With sighing blasts and weeping rain,
Yet she refuses to unfold.

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To My Inconstant Mistress

© Thomas Carew

When thou, poor excommunicate
From all the joys of love, shalt see
The full reward and glorious fate
Which my strong faith shall purchase me,
Then curse thine own inconstancy.

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Seven Seals

© Gary R. Ferris

But the world was asleep and never shed a tear.
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As the second seal was broken the second beast began to show,

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Love The Lord

© Gary R. Ferris

Never leave His words behind.
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Place no other gods before the Lord,

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Sorrows Interest

© Gary R. Ferris

And finances seem to slim.
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The car won’t start and kids are sick,

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The Girl

© Gary R. Ferris

She never had to cry.
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Small, but big,

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Love Is

© Gary R. Ferris

By the storms and the wind.
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Love will last,

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Quia Absurdum

© Robinson Jeffers

Guard yourself from the terrible empty light of space, the bottomless
Pool of the stars. (Expose yourself to it: you might learn something.)Guard yourself from perceiving the inherent nastiness of man and woman.
(Expose yourself to it: you might learn something.)Faith, as they now confess, is preposterous, an act of will. Choose the Christian sheep-cote
Or the Communist rat-fight: faith will cover your head from the man-devouring stars.

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The Eye

© Robinson Jeffers

The Atlantic is a stormy moat; and the Mediterranean,
The blue pool in the old garden,
More than five thousand years has drunk sacrifice
Of ships and blood, and shines in the sun; but here the Pacific--

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Suicide's Stone

© Robinson Jeffers

Peace is the heir of dead desire,
Whether abundance killed the cormorant
In a happy hour, or sleep or death
Drowned him deep in dreamy waters,
Peace is the ashes of that fire,
The heir of that king, the inn of that journey.

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Psalm XXXVI: High in the Heav'ns

© Isaac Watts

High in the heav'ns, eternal God,
Thy goodness in full glory shines;
Thy truth shall break through ev'ry cloud
That veils and darkens thy designs.

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Psalm XLVI: God Is the Refuge

© Isaac Watts

God is the refuge of his saints,
When storms of sharp distress invade;
Ere we can offer our complaints,
Behold him present with his aid!

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Psalm 92 part 2

© Isaac Watts

v.12ff
L. M.
The church is the garden of God.

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Psalm 9 part 2

© Isaac Watts

v.12
C. M.
The wisdom and equity of Providence.

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Psalm 89 part 6

© Isaac Watts

v.47ff
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Mortality and hope. A funeral psalm.

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Psalm 89 part 1

© Isaac Watts

My never-ceasing songs shall show
The mercies of the Lord;
And make succeeding ages know
How faithful is his word.

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Psalm 62

© Isaac Watts

v.5-12
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No trust in the creatures; or, Faith in Divine grace and power.

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Psalm 56

© Isaac Watts

O Thou whose justice reigns on high,
And makes th' oppressor cease,
Behold how envious sinners try
To vex and break my peace.

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Psalm 50 part 1

© Isaac Watts

v.1-6
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The last judgment