01c. 1817 ADI love it, I love it, and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?Eliza Cook / quote ↗
02c. 1817 ADHow cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When memory plays an old tune on the heart!Eliza Cook / quote ↗
03c. 1817 ADFull many a day for ever is lost / By delaying its work till to-morrow; / The minutes of sloth have often cost / Long years of bootless sorrow.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
05c. 1817 ADMid pleasure, plenty, and success, Freely we take from Him who lends; We boast the blessings we possess, Yet scarcely thank the one who sends. But let affliction pour its smart, How soon we quail beneath the rod! With shattered pride, and prostrate heart, We seek the long-forgotten God.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
06c. 1817 ADO, prayer is good when many pour Their voices in one solemn tone; Conning their sacred lessons o’er, Or yielding thanks for mercies shown. ’Tis good to see the quiet train Forget their worldly joy and care, While loud response, and choral strain, Re-echo in the House of Prayer.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
07c. 1817 ADO God! how beautiful the thought, How merciful the bless’d decree, That Grace can e’er be found, when sought, And nought shut out the soul from Thee. The cell may cramp, the fetters gall, The flame may scorch, the rack may tear; But torture, stake, or prison-wall, Can be endured with faith and prayer.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
08c. 1817 ADThen glory to the steel That shines in the reaper’s hand; And thanks to God, who has bless’d the sod, And crowns the harvest land!Eliza Cook / quote ↗
09c. 1817 ADThou must chain thy passions down; Well to serve, but ill to sway, Like the fire they must obey. They are good, in subject state, To strengthen, warm, and animate; But if once we let them reign, They sweep with desolating train, ’Till they but leave a hated name, A ruined soul, and blackened fame.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
10c. 1817 ADBut holiest rite or longest prayer That soul can yield, or wisdom frame, What better import can it bear Than “Father, hallowed be Thy name!”Eliza Cook / quote ↗
11c. 1817 ADGod hath a presence, and that ye may see In the fold of the flower, the leaf of the tree, In the sun of the noon-day, the star of the night, In the storm-cloud of darkness, the rainbow of night, In the waves of the ocean, the furrows of land, In the mountain of granite, the atom of sand, Turn where ye may, from the sky to the sod, Where can ye gaze that ye see not God.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
12c. 1817 ADFaith and hope Will teach me how to bear my lot; To think Almighty Wisdom best, To bow my head and murmur not. The chastening hand of One above Falls heavy, but I kiss the rod: He gives the wound, and I must trust Its healing to the self-same God.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
13c. 1817 ADHow oft the ruddy cheek will pale To leave the earth behind! How oft the glowing heart will quail Before the tempest wind! We fear the billow’s dash, but why? There’s One to guard and save; There’s One whose wide and watchful eye Sleeps not above the wave.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
14c. 1817 ADFaith and hope Will teach me how to bear my lot! To think Almighty Wisdom best, To bow my head, and murmur not. The chast’ning hand of One above Falls heavy, but I kiss the rod, He gives the wound, and I must trust Its healing to the self-same God.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
15c. 1817 ADLive that thy young and glowing breast Can think of death without a sigh, And be assured that life is best Which finds us least afraid to die.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
17c. 1817 ADA cheer for the snow—the drifting snow; Smoother and purer than Beauty's brow; The creature of thought scarce likes to tread On the delicate carpet so richly spread.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
20c. 1817 ADA cheer then for the noble breast that fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
21c. 1817 ADA cheer then for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.Eliza Cook / quote ↗
23c. 1817 ADOh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."Eliza Cook / quote ↗
24c. 1817 ADThe span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!Eliza Cook / quote ↗
