Jan Kochanowski Thought Poems

  • 1.
    I think no father under any sky
    More fondly loved a daughter than did I,
    And scarcely ever has a child been born
    Whose loss her parents could more justly mourn.
    ...
  • 2.
    Dear little Slavic Sappho, we had thought,
    Hearing thy songs so sweetly, deftly wrought,
    That thou shouldst have an heritage one day
    Beyond thy father's lands: his lute to play.
    ...
  • 3.
    Thou hast constrained mine eyes, unholy Death,
    To watch my dear child breathe her dying breath:
    To watch thee shake the fruit unripe and clinging
    While fear and grief her parents' hearts were wringing.
    ...
  • 4.
    We are thy thankless children, gracious Lord.
    The good thou dost afford
    Lightly do we employ,
    All careless of the one who giveth joy.
    ...
  • 5.
    Thou shouldst be purchased, Wisdom, for much gold
    If all they say of thee is truly told:
    That thou canst root out from the mind the host
    Of longings and canst change a man almost
    ...
  • 6.
    Sad trinkets of my little daughter, dresses
    That touched her like caresses,
    Why do you draw my mournful eyes? To borrow
    A newer weight of sorrow?
    ...
  • 7.
    If I had ever thought to write in praise
    Of little children and their simple ways,
    Far rather had I fashioned cradle verse
    To rock to slumber, or the songs a nurse
    ...
  • 8.
    Long through the night hours sorrow was my guest
    And would not let my fainting body rest,
    Till just ere dawn from out its slow dominions
    Flew sleep to wrap me in its dear dusk pinions.
    ...
Total 8 Thought Poems by Jan Kochanowski

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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
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