Lydia Sigourney
Best-known poems
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Harvest (Sigourney)
1 GOD of the year! with songs of praise
And hearts of love, we come to bless
Thy bounteous hand, for thou hast shed …
All poems (22)
- Bread in the WildernessBut Jesus said unto them, " They need not depart; give ye them to eat."
- Burial of a FriendAS, bowed by sudden storms, the rose
- Charity Never FailethTHE sparkling eye that ruled the heart
- Child's Prayer at entering ChurchLORD, lead my heart to learn;
- Christian Hymns for Public and Private Worship/Prayer at SeaPrayer may be sweet in cottage homes,
- Death of a Pastor1 PASTOR, thou art from us taken
- Farewell of the Soul to the BodyCompanion dear, the hour draws nigh,
- General PutnamGREAT Soul, and brave, 'tis good to think of thee,
- Go To Thy RestGo to thy rest, fair child!
- Harvest (Sigourney)1 GOD of the year! with songs of praise
- How Far From HomeI hear the rising tempest moan,
- John TrumbullThis was he
- Sleeping Child (Lydia Sigourney)SLEEP, dearest, long and sweet,
- The Bride (Sigourney)I came, but she was gone. In her fair home,
- The Butterfly (Sigourney)A BUTTERFLY bask'd on a baby's grave,
- The Cheerful Giver"WHAT shall I render Thee! Father Supreme,
- The Coral InsectTOIL on! toil on! ye ephemeral train,
- The Defection of the DisciplesThen all the disciples forsook him and fled.-ST. MATTHEW xxvi. 56.
- The Liberated Prisoner———
- The Ruler's FaithDEATH cometh to the chamber of the sick:
- The Widow at Her Daughter's BridalDEAL gently, thou whose hand hath won
- To a Shred of LinenWOULD they swept cleaner!—