Mystery Of Carmel (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
The Mission floor was with weeds o'ergrown,And crumbling and shaky its walls of stone;Its roof of tiles, in tiers and ...
The Mission floor was with weeds o'ergrown,And crumbling and shaky its walls of stone;Its roof of tiles, in tiers and ...
What, wide awake, sweet stranger, wide awake?And laughing coyly at an English sun,And blessing him with smiles for having thaw'dThine ...
Come hither, and behold the fruits,Vain man! of all thy vain pursuits.Take wise advice, and look behind,Bring all past actions ...
An Impromptu On Hearing of His DeathBury the mighty dead—Long, long to live in story!Bury the mighty deadIn his own ...
They know the Almighty's power, Who, wakened by the rushing midnight shower, Watch for the fitful breeze To howl and chafe amid the ...
Around the council-board of Hell, with Satan at their head,The Three Great Scourges of humanity sat.Gaunt Famine, with hollow cheek ...
Oh! day of days! shall hearts set freeNo "minstrel rapture" find for thee?Thou art this Sun of other days,They shine ...
WITHIN a gloomy charnel-house one dayI view'd the countless skulls, so strangely mated,And of old times I thought, that now ...
A few more years, - and they will drag my bones,And let them in a charnel-house be shed,After my melodies ...
ARE all things disappointment ? Must we turnIn this rank garden of life from tree to 'tree,Catching at fruit and ...
The gentleness of JesusAnd the meekness of the childAre false ideas. Christ was fierceAnd we breed our children wild.The spring ...
Around us, wheresoe'er we tread,The while our shadows pass them by,As in Bethsaida's porch the deadWith upturned faces lie,Dreading, perchance, ...
Moses, meantime, straightway unto the house Of Aaron speeded back: for, gathered there By hasty summons, knew he that the ...
Part IVisions in the SmokeRest, and be thankful! On the verge Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,But whose granite ...
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD. The Abnegation.ARGUMENT. What's potent Opulencie? What's remiss Voluptuousness? World, what's All This, To That the ...
On the hill they are crowding together, In the stand they are crushing for room, Like midge-flies they swarm on ...
The Censor sits behind his desk, And smiles a censored smile; His great, blue ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
WITHIN a gloomy charnel-house ...
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