Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?

Abraham Coles

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Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust.... by Abraham Coles

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

dust eye ignorance

None of the prophets old, by Abraham Coles

None of the prophets old,

loneliness courage giving

The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: by Abraham Coles

The power to bind and loose to Truth is given:

truth mouths heaven

True love is humble, thereby is it known; by Abraham Coles

True love is humble, thereby is it known;

self humble love

Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.

doubt father death

Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology.

apology wine character

O most illustrious of the days of time! by Abraham Coles

O most illustrious of the days of time!

christmas angel sweet

We hail the return of the day of thy birth, by Abraham Coles

We hail the return of the day of thy birth,

freedom ocean father

Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.

tyrants stars shining

O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, by Abraham Coles

O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet,

women useless sweet

On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep by Abraham Coles

On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep

eye sleep night

I value science--none can prize it more, by Abraham Coles

I value science--none can prize it more,

religious heart science

The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets by Abraham Coles

The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets

orbs horizon eternity

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

poetry answers needs

Eternity! How know we but we stand by Abraham Coles

Eternity! How know we but we stand

crumbling eternity knows

Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!

cheer stars country

Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.

pulse loss sweet

O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

land beautiful country