Before the Birth of One of Her Children All things within this fading world hath end,
Adversity doth still our joys attend;
No ties so strong, no friends so dear and sweet,
But with death's…
By Night when Others Soundly Slept By night when others soundly slept
And hath at once both ease and Rest,
My waking eyes were open kept
And so to lie I found it best.
I sought him whom…
Verses upon the Burning of our House In silent night when rest I took,
For sorrow near I did not look,
I waken'd was with thund'ring noise
And piteous shrieks of dreadful voice.
That fearful…
[Deliverance] From Another Sore Fit In my distress I sought the Lord
When naught on earth could comfort give,
And when my soul these things abhorred,
Then, Lord, Thou said'st unto me, "Live…
Meditation July 8th., 1656Abstract I had a sore fit of fainting, which lasted 2 or 3 days, but not in that extremity which at first it took me, and so much the sorer it was to me because my…
(Encyclopedia) Cork, city, county town of Co. Cork,
S Republic of Ireland, on the Lee River near its mouth on Cork Harbour. The
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In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ElizabethProem. Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie,
Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky
Thy wondrous worth proclaim, in…
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