John Pierpont
American poet, teacher, lawyer, merchant, Unitarian minister
John Pierpont (April 6, 1785 – August 27, 1866) was an American poet, who was also successively a teacher, lawyer, merchant, and Unitarian minister. His most famous poem is The Airs of Palestine.
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Quotes
edit- A weapon that comes down as still
As snowflakes fall upon the sod;
But executes a freeman's will,
As lightning does the will of God;
And from its force nor doors nor locks
Can shield you,—'t is the ballot-box.- A Word from a Petitioner, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- From every place below the skies
The grateful song, the fervent prayer,—
The incense of the heart, —may rise
To heaven, and find acceptance there.- Every Place a Temple, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "This is that incense of the heart / Whose fragrance smells to heaven" Nathaniel Cotton, The Fireside, stanza 11.
External links
edit- The Antislavery Poems of John Pierpont, at the Antislavery Literature Project
- The Tocsin, a broadsheet poem by John Pierpont, at the Antislavery Literature Project
- The Anti-slavery poems of John Pierpont By John Pierpont. Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection. (Reprinted by) Cornell University Library Digital Collections
- John Pierpont works Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection