I ASK good things that I detest, With speeches fair; Heed not, I pray Thee, Lord, my breast, But hear my prayer.
I ASK good things that I detest,
With speeches fair;
Heed not, I pray Thee, Lord, my breast,
But hear my prayer.
I say ill things I would not say -
Things unaware:
Regard my breast, Lord, in Thy day,
And not my prayer.
My heart is evil in Thy sight:
My good thoughts flee:
O Lord, I cannot wish aright -
Wish Thou for me.
O bend my words and acts to Thee,
However ill,
That I, whate'er I say or be,
May serve Thee still.
O let my thoughts abide in Thee
Lest I should fall:
Show me Thyself in all I see,
Thou Lord of all.
Prayer
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Lo! In Thine Honest Eyes I Read
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Though Deep Indifference Should Drowse
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My Heart, when First the Black-Bird Sings
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I Dreamed of Forest Alleys Fair
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St. Martin's Summer
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Dedication
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The Old Chimaeras, Old Receipts
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Prelude
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The Vanquished Knight
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To the Commissioners of Northern Lights
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The Relic Taken, what Avails the Shrine
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About the Sheltered Garden Ground
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After Reading "Antony and Cleopatra"
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I Know Not How, but as I Count
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Spring Song
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The Summer Sun Shone Round Me
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You Looked So Tempting in the Pew
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Love's Vicissitudes
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Duddingstone
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Stout Marches Lead to Certain Ends
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Away with Funeral Music
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To Sydney
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Had I the Power that have the Will
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O Dull Cold Northern Sky
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Apologetic Postscript of a Year Later
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To Marcus
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To Ottilie
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This Gloomy Northern Day
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The Wind is Without There and Howls in the Trees
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A Valentine's Song
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Hail! Childish Slaves of Social Rules
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Swallows Travel to and Fro
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To Mesdames Zassetsky and Garschine
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To Madame Garschine
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Music at the Villa Marina
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Fear Not, Dear Friend, but Freely Live Your Days
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Let Love Go, If Go she Will
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I Do Not Fear to Own Me Kin
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I Am Like One that for Long Days had Sate
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