The Wild Honeysuckle

Philip Freneau

Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,

Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouched thy honied blossoms blow,
Unseen thy little branches greet:
No roving foot shall crush thee here,
No busy hand provoke a tear.
By Natures self in white arrayed,
She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,
And planted here the guardian shade,
And sent soft waters murmuring by;
Thus quietly thy summer goes,
Thy days declining to repose.

Smit with those charms, that must decay,

I grieve to see your future doom;
They diednor were those flowers more gay,
The flowers that did in Eden bloom;
Unpitying frosts and Autumns power
Shall leave no vestige of this flower.

From morning suns and evening dews

At first thy little being came;
If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between is but an hour,
The frail duration of flower.

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Narrative

Jonathan Edwards

The heaven I desired was a heaven of holiness; to be with God, and to spend my
eternity in divine love, and holy communion with Christ. My mind was very
much taken up with contemplations on heaven, and the enjoyments there; and
living there in perfect holiness, humility and love: And it used at that time to
appear a great part of the happiness of heaven, that there the saints could express
their love to Christ. It appeared to me a great clog and burden, that what I felt
within, I could not express as I desired. The inward ardor of my soul, seemed to
be hindered and pent up, and could not freely flame out as it would. I used often
to think, how in heaven this principle should freely and fully vent and express
itself. Heaven appeared exceedingly delightful, as a world of love; and that all
happiness consisted in living in pure, humble, heavenly, divine love.

from Images

or Shadows of Divine Things

Jonathan Edwards

The late invention of telescopes, whereby heavenly objects are brought so much
nearer and made so much plainer to sight and such wonderfull discoveries have
been made in the heavens, is a type and forerunner of the great increase in the
knowledge of heavenly things that shall be in the approaching glorious times of
the Christian Church.