The Skeleton in Armor (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"Speak! speak I thou fearful guest Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me! ...
"Speak! speak I thou fearful guest Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me! ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
I AM now,--what joy to hear it!-- Of the old magician rid; And henceforth shall ev'ry spirit Do whate'er by ...
IF to a girl who loves us truly Her mother gives instruction duly In virtue, duty, and what not,-- And ...
The two blades the seed of our faith sharpened together in sharing the word As one to another the stone ...
Gaining from our struggles with God beside us dwelling within us still when we turn to him In the fire ...
A changing of the weather of the seasons of life a front is coming to change the whole world if ...
Like the manna in the desert jars of flour ever replenished loving, refilled in the night by God By his ...
Like firewood added the energy growing fanning flames burning making a bonfire Sharing words of wisdom insights from the journey ...
In the rote of the ritual centuries of tradition following the words of the story long ago The story of ...
The tempter in the garden stalking Christ with doubt fears of his suffering that he may turn from his path ...
In the rote of the ritual the centuries of tradition following the words of the story long ago The story ...
Standing, hiding in the garden the sound of the creator fear in their hearts Aware of their nakedness the death ...
Not growing smarter gaining an insight becoming adults on a par with God Expelled, out of the garden the bliss ...
Calling this a myth because the word sin was not there their nakedness revealed because they had eaten the fruit ...
The singular, holy one of God so was the wisdom the urgency of Peter's response Christ, the teacher, his master ...
That we may receive that which is offered for us so were the words read aloud the words I shared ...
The blood, the wine, the body, the bread the loaf, the cup offered for him If for him, for all, ...
Blind, gaining sight persecuting, preaching converted on the Damascus road in a blaze of light, a voice from above changing ...
In the communion, the sharing in the chapel giving our confession to God, our sin revealed, out loud confessing to ...
The ferns, the moss, the grass rise up, in the shadowed places up out of the moist rich ground adding ...
Our mission, our trip, our sharing all part of the growing edges of the missionaries, gaining strength, new skills, stretching ...
Scraping, painting, praying, singing, playing, laughing all are part of lessons learned on the work site and at the camp; ...
Peeling away the curtain that blocks them from the outside world the world of crickets, of wind, of gulls, of ...
Wanting Seeing the beauty The precision Magic in prose Cut and paste Letting go of the old Pulling edits in ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on Cumberland Island Where the night tide came ...
This salt-stain spot marks the place where men lay down their heads, back to the bench, and hoist nothing that ...
I will not reason, wrestle here with you, Though you pursue and worry me about; As well put forth my ...
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