A Little Litany (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
When God turned back eternity and was young, Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth (As under the low ...
When God turned back eternity and was young, Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth (As under the low ...
"Old things need not be therefore true," O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought ...
Oh how I love Thy holy Word, Thy gracious covenant, O Lord! It guides me in the peaceful way; I ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
Jupiter Mars P Moon VENEZIA, "May" 19"th", 1910. Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue Rides on the moon, a ...
Jupiter Mars P Moon VENEZIA, "May" 19"th", 1910. Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue Rides on the moon, a ...
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy ...
Ungrateful he, who pluck'd thee from thy stalk, Poor faded flow'ret! on his careless way; Inhal'd awhile thy odours on ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such ...
Who hath not felt the influence that so calms The weary mind in summers sultry hours When wandering thickest woods ...
Far spread the moorey ground a level scene Bespread with rush and one eternal green That never felt the rage ...
What is song's eternity? Come and see. Can it noise and bustle be? Come and see. Praises sung or praises ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
The frog half fearful jumps across the path, And little mouse that leaves its hole at eve Nimbles with timid ...
For my wife, Elizabeth Harris Burch, and my mother, Christine Ena Burch There never was a fonder smile than mother's ...
STEER, hither steer your winged pines, All beaten mariners! Here lie Love's undiscover'd mines, A prey to passengers-- Perfumes far ...
I am standing under the mistletoe, And I smile, but no answering smile replies For her haughty glance bids me ...
Saint Peter stood, at Heaven's gate, All souls claims to adjudicate Saying to some souls, "Enter in!" "Go to Hell," ...
Jan 7th A dreadful darkness closes in On my bewildered mind; O let me suffer and not sin, Be tortured ...
Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair! Though cold ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
' SISTER, you've sat there all the day, Come to the hearth awhile; The wind so wildly sweeps away, The ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
Me thinks this heart should rest awhile So stilly round the evening falls The veiled sun sheds no parting smile ...
They say there's a high windless world and strange, Out of the wash of days and temporal tide, Where Faith ...
The ewes crowd to the mangers; Their bellies widen, sag; Their udders tighten. Soon The little voices cry In morning ...
Cold night: the wild duck, sick, falls from the sky and sleeps awhile. (Matsuo Basho)
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