Simeon. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
THE aged Simeon waited longIn Zion's holy fane,Amid an unbelieving throngTo hail Messiah's reign;On God's high promise he relied,And saw ...
THE aged Simeon waited longIn Zion's holy fane,Amid an unbelieving throngTo hail Messiah's reign;On God's high promise he relied,And saw ...
THE CONVERT.Some to our Hero have a hero's nameDenied, because no father's he could claim;Nor could his mother with precision ...
RESENTMENT.Females there are of unsuspicious mind,Easy and soft and credulous and kind;Who, when offended for the twentieth time,Will hear the ...
A BRITISH TRANSPORT VESSEL LOST ON THE COAST OF AFRICA.A BALLAD. As well as I am able, I'll relate ...
There was once a Simple People - (you, of course, will understandThis is just a little fable of a non-existent ...
ONCE more, my harp! once more, although I thought Never to wake thy silent strings again, A wandering dream thy ...
That heart were something cold, I think,That on the light of stars reliedFor daily fire; and cruel isThe perfumed breath ...
Men of our race, we send you oneRound whom Victoria's holy nameIs halo from the sunken sunOf her grand Summer's ...
Hark! friends! what sobs of sorrow, moans of grief,On every gale, through every region spread!Hark! how the western world bewails ...
BLEST is yon shepherd, on the turf reclined,Who on the varied clouds which float aboveLies idly gazing--while his vacant mindPours ...
Believe in God in His ability to provide all we every need He is right by our side Ever faithful ...
I remember those last few moments as your breathing slowed, no longer labored she on the side of your bed, ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The witch that came (the withered hag) To wash the steps with pail and rag, Was once the beauty Abishag, ...
Here lies a great and mighty King, Whose promise none relied on; He never said a foolish thing, Nor ever ...
I went out alone To sing a song or two, My fancy on a man, And you know who. Another ...
"I'll introduce a friend!" he said, "And if you've got a vacant pen You'd better take him in the shed ...
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore; But oh! ...
When first I met thee, warm and young, There shone such truth about thee, And on thy lip such promise ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories