Opusculum (John Henry Newman Poems)
Fair Cousin, thy pageis small to encagethe thoughts which engagethe mind of a sage, such as I am;'Twere in teaspoon to ...
Fair Cousin, thy pageis small to encagethe thoughts which engagethe mind of a sage, such as I am;'Twere in teaspoon to ...
ALL through the country, in the autumn stillness, A web of grey spreads strangely, rim to rim;And you may hear the ...
Poor and inadequate the shadow-playOf gain and loss, of waking and of dream,Against life's solemn background needs must seemAt this ...
I rememberThe crackle of the palm treesOver the mooned white roofs of the town…The shining town…And the tender fumbling of ...
But what avail inadequate words to reachThe innermost of Truth? Who shall essay,Blinded and weak, to point and lead the ...
The carpenter is intent on the pressure of his hand on the awl and the trick of pinpointing his strengththrough ...
She kissed me when she said good-bye— A child's kiss, neither bold nor shy. We had met but a few ...
The girl in the room beneath Before going to bed Strums on a mandolin The three simple tunes she knows. ...
Not inadequate, each of us worthy Messengers empowered to share God's love Each of us a beacon, shining in the ...
Before the blessing meager, inadequate five loves, two fish A blessing, bread help up to heaven suddenly, more than enough ...
Subjecting yourself, your child to an inadequate plan, a failure of law, of implementation, or fiat at its worst That ...
With these words, the majority opinion ends How sad, they are, how ignoble an assessment of failure on an awful ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Had I not This, or This, I said, Appealing to Myself, In moment of prosperity -- Inadequate -- were Life ...
Has life ever dumped you in a heap? Perhaps you've found self belief so strongly reinforcing that doubt never enters ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
I The girl in the room beneath Before going to bed Strums on a mandolin The three simple tunes she ...
As yon great Sun in his supreme condition Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own, So does my ...
And I solemnly swear on the chill of secrecy that I know you not, this room never, the swollen dress ...
Xhosa women in clothes too light for the weather have brought wild flowers and sit sloped along the Claremont road. ...
My answers are inadequate To those demanding day and date And ever set a tiny shock Through strangers asking what's ...
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