Poems by Michael Wigglesworth
The Day Of Doom
... Straightway appears (they see 't with tears) ...
A Prayer unto Christ
... Where Heathen gods with praise are Crown'd, ...
The Saints Ascend To Heaven
... To which they're brought beyond what thought ran reach, or words express! ...
The Vanity Of Human Wishes
... be read, Hell will her souls, and gravs give up their dead ...
A Postscript unto the Reader
... If such a friend should break thy door and wake thee, ...
Sentence And Torment Of The Condemned
... They wring their hands, their caitiff-hands, and gnash their teeth for terrour ...
A Short Discourse on Eternity
... 14:11 [ 8 ] Nought joyn'd to nought can ne're make ought, ...
Vanity of Vanities
... Where Floods, where Flames, where Foes cannot bereave him, ...
To The Christian Reader
... That thou the things of thine own peace, ...