A Holy Messenger (James Madison Bell Poems)
Dedicated to Rev. Thomas M. D. Ward.The voice of Macedonia's gone From California o'er the seas,And yet, to help her, there ...
Dedicated to Rev. Thomas M. D. Ward.The voice of Macedonia's gone From California o'er the seas,And yet, to help her, there ...
I'VE been watchin' of 'em parson,An' I'm sorry fur to say'At my mind is not contentedWith the loose an' keerless ...
The sun had set. He was alone; Mid twilight shadows he would rest. He laid his head upon a stone To woo sweet ...
Oh! tell me a tale of the airly days-- Of the times as they ust to be;"Piller of Fi-er" and "Shakespeare's ...
O Ecclesia,your eyes are like sapphire:your ears the mount of Bethel,your noselike a mountain of myrrh and incense,and your mouth ...
Thou, who on the whirlwind ridest,At whose word the thunder roars,Who, in majesty, presidestO'er the oceans and their shores;From those ...
I stopped to call a taxi in the heart of Babylon.At the pavement's edge I stood - the traffic writhing ...
Glory to Thy ways 0 Lord!We praise Thy Holy Name:Sacred is the precious wordThat tells the Christian's claim.Children of the ...
O God of Bethel! by whose handThy people still are fed;Who through this weary pilgrimageHast all our fathers led.Our vows, ...
The fields and lanes show fresh and fain Pranked in the jewels of the rain; And the scent that breathes ...
Young Shechem all the night impatient lay;And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;With ardent longings waits the promis'd hour,And ...
Listen to the Poet's story Of an ancient bell,Freighted with its wreaths of glory, With its fate as well:On Alhambra's ...
Celestial Muse that on the blissful plainArt oft invok'd, to guide th' immortal strain;Inspir'd by thee, the first-born sons of ...
An old soldier on the night before the veteransreunion talks partly to himself, partly to imaginary comrades:The people-people of my ...
Poet and Saint! to thee alone are given The two most sacred names of earth and heaven, The ...
GO on, thou great Apostle of the Waters,Fill up the measure of thy useful days;Stem the rough billows that oppose ...
Five Zouaves killed! — one thousand in all — Five from a thousand? Then he may be one.If in ...
I WILL not seek the comfort of my bedOr press the pillow with my troubled head;I will not let my ...
Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me: Still all my ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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