The parted family and other poems
POEMS.
By Mrs. M. S. B. DANA.
AN OFFERING TO THE AFFLICTED,
AND
A TRIBUTE OF LOVE TO DEPARTED FRIENDS.
MARY S. B. DANA, Author of “The Southern Harp,” &c.
“Is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child?” And she answered, “It is well.”
II Kings iv. 26.
NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY DAYTON & SAXTON, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STREETS.
BOSTON: SAXTON AND PEIRCE. 1842.
Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by MARY S. B. DANA, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.
It is with some degree of diffidence, that the writer of these Poems presents them to the public. The unexpected and abundant favor with which her late work, “The Southern Harp,” has been every where received, has given her heartfelt gratification; and perhaps her latent susceptibility, roused by the flattering encomiums of an indulgent public, may blind her judgment, and lead her into error. When she is in danger of venturing beyond her depth, and sinking in the treacherous waves of popular favor,
Mary Dana Shindler
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CONTENTS.
PREFACE.
THE PARTED FAMILY.
TO AN ABSENT HUSBAND.
TO A DEAR ABSENT FRIEND.
THE DYING AND THE DEAD.
THE MOTHER TO HER DEPARTED CHILD.
THE BURIAL.
THE FADING ROSE BUD.
THE JOYS OF GRIEF.
THE SECOND BURIAL.
A VOICE FROM HEAVEN.
THE SOLITARY WALK.
TO MY MOTHER.
TO MR. AND MRS. H. N. DAVIS, OF ST. LOUIS.
THE CHANGE.
DON’T CRY, MY MOTHER!
TO MY HUSBAND’S PICTURE.
“REJOICE WITH THOSE WHO DO REJOICE.”
TO MY DEAR DEPARTED FRIEND.
TO A SISTER, IN THE REPOSE OF DEATH.
TO MY ONLY SISTER.
PASSING UNDER THE ROD.
THE JOY OF THE CHRISTIAN.
THE PRAYER OF THE WIDOW.
NEW HAVEN.
DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SAVIOR AND THE MOURNER.
CHASTENING, A PROOF OF LOVE.
“TO DIE IS GAIN.”
ON A FLOWER,
INVOCATION TO SLEEP.
HEAVEN.
TO A MOTHER WITH A DYING CHILD.
AN INVOCATION TO DEATH.
O! SING TO ME OF HEAVEN!
TO A DYING CHRISTIAN.
“CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND AND ALTOGETHER LOVELY.”
GOD’S LOVE TO ISRAEL.
HYMN TO THE TRINITY.
MOUNT AUBURN.
THE GIFT.
THE EVER PRESENT FRIEND.
“I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU.”
TO THE REV. J—— P——, OF BOSTON.
HEAVEN ON EARTH.
THE JOY OF SOLITUDE.
“THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST.”
“EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES.”
“BLESSED ARE THE MEEK.”
TRUST IN HEAVEN.
LINES
WHEN SHALL IT BE?
“I WILL TRUST IN THE COVERT OF THY WINGS. SELAH.”
TO THE ASHLEY RIVER.
“ONE WOE IS PAST.”
TO MY FRAIL BODY.
A HYMN FOR THE AFFLICTED.
THE BEREAVED FATHER TO HIS SON.
WHERE IS THE BETTER COUNTRY?
TO A MOTHER, ON THE DEATH OF A DAUGHTER.
A MORNING HYMN.
SONG.
HYMN.
THE BENDED KNEE.
THE HOLY BIBLE.
SONG.
A FUNERAL HYMN.
“SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.”
GOD IS FAITHFUL.
“LOVEST THOU ME?”
THE DYING MOTHER.
SMILING, THOUGH SAD.
THE POET’S WEALTH.
“THY WILL BE DONE.”
WHOM THE LORD LOVETH, HE CHASTENETH.
“IF THERE BE THEREFORE ANY CONSOLATION IN CHRIST.”
ALL JOY.
THE MOURNER’S RESOLVE.
WHEREFORE GLORIFY YE THE LORD IN THE FIRES.—Is. xxiv. 15.
LINES
THE DYING HADGI.
REAL COMFORT.
SONG.
SONG.
TO MRS. WILLIAM H——.
THE DREAM OF THE SICK.
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