A Certain King (Lorenzo Dow Blackson Poems)
A certain King whose power is great,For his own glory did createA spacious globe, and it did placeIn what is ...
A certain King whose power is great,For his own glory did createA spacious globe, and it did placeIn what is ...
A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchanged,Fed on the lawns, and in the forest ranged;Without unspotted, innocent within,She feared no danger, ...
And now good Reader, I return againTo talk with thee, who hast been at the painTo read throughout, and heed ...
If truly pious thou wou'dst fain appear,And strictly Christian, whilst thou livest here,To a small church convert thy own abode,And ...
I Pause, God, and ponder, ere Thou judgest me. Though it be doomsday, and the trampling winds Rush blindly through the stark and ...
SCENE I. An Ante-chamber in the Castle.Enter LUDOLPH and SIGIFRED.Ludolph. No more advices, no more cautioning:I leave it all to ...
And when two days were over, Japhet said,"Mother, so please you, get a wife for me."The mother answered, "Dost thou ...
You of each sex and age, draw near,And to my sad Complaint give ear,Who vice, unto the last obey'd,But now ...
JUNE 8, 1881THREE paths there be where Learning's favored sons,Trained in the schools which hold her favored ones,Follow their several ...
The Brutons thus departed hence, seven kingdoms here begun,--Where diversely in divers broils the Saxons lost and won,--King Edel and ...
COME, thou vile wretch, thou veteran in sin,With faith and tears, come to the Son of God!'Tis He, the Son ...
Before Granada's fated walls the Christian legions stand,A numerous and a valiant—but why a sullen band?The politic, wise Ferdinand's injunctions they ...
To W. S. M.Look at her-there she sits upon her throneAs ladylike and quiet as a nun!But if you cross ...
DID it not answer some benign intentTo mortify the flesh, and mend the mind,The Sire of mercies never wou'd have ...
'It happened in 1803,' began my old acquaintance, 'not long beforeAusterlitz. The regiment in which I was an officer was ...
An average man was Private Flynn, Good stuff for soldiering, no doubt;Troublesome when the drink was in, A quiet lad when it ...
Once more to visit a distracted world, The spirit of sweet Peace comes trembling down,As war's ensanguined flag is newly furled, And ...
Is it not our bounden duty Harsh and bitter thoughts to quell, Wild, ambitions schemes repel, And to revel in the beauty Of this ...
HIS TEMPTATIONNo fear lest praise should make us proud!We know how cheaply that is won;The idle homage of the crowdIs ...
Poor, weak and worthless though I amI have a rich almighty friend;Jesus, the Saviour, is His Name;He freely loves, and ...
If nothing else, may not this season move,Or time become the true chronicle of love?And so allay the fury, stint ...
But, when they were alone,--and now no more By that subduing presence overawed,-- With free tongue giving loose to wrath ...
Seven days accomplished,--unto Pharaoh's court The sons of Amram went; by Voice Divine Commanded; and, in presence of the king, ...
Like a strong youth who, from refreshing sleep After hard travel, rises light of heart, Active of limb, flushed with ...
Gazing upon the toiling seas,In gloomy rows the silent captives sate;And as the ship rode off before the breeze,They murmured ...
SECTS in Religion?--Yes of every raceWe nurse some portion in our favour'd place;Not one warm preacher of one growing sectCan ...
That story which the bold Sir Bedivere, First made and latest left of all the knights, Told, when ...
''Not with you to take counsel, Powers of heaven,-- For still that title ours,--in so great haste Hither have I ...
All night funereal darkness pall'd the earth; The worn--out soldiers slumbered heavily: The anxious chiefs themselves, in grave--like sleep, Till ...
Tombed in the solid night of starless space; From nearest living orb so far removed, That light, of all material ...
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