Israel In Egypt. Book Twentieth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Like a strong youth who, from refreshing sleep After hard travel, rises light of heart, Active of limb, flushed with ...
Like a strong youth who, from refreshing sleep After hard travel, rises light of heart, Active of limb, flushed with ...
The fields and lanes show fresh and fain Pranked in the jewels of the rain; And the scent that breathes ...
On the next morning,--so by heavenly Voice Instructed,--unto Pharaoh went again Moses and Aaron; craving to be heard, Because of ...
While morning yet was young, within his hall Of justice Pharaoh sat: his princes, priests, Judges, and ministers, in costly ...
''Powers, erst of heaven; and, haply, yet again, As, with the years, we wiser, mightier grow, Thither, triumphant, destined to ...
''Not with you to take counsel, Powers of heaven,-- For still that title ours,--in so great haste Hither have I ...
Young Shechem all the night impatient lay;And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;With ardent longings waits the promis'd hour,And ...
I.She stood at Greenwich, motionless amid The ever-shifting crowd of passengers.I marked a big tear quivering on the lid Of ...
The leaves dance, the leaves sing,The leaves dance in the breath of the Spring.I bid them dance,I bid them sing,For ...
On Nineveh's proud towers the sinking sun In cloudless splendor looks; nor, through the earth, Like glory doth behold. In ...
Brief life is here our portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care: The Life that knows no ending, ...
It is not always to the strongVictorious battle shall belong.This found Goliath huge and tall:Mightiest giant of them all,Who in ...
(A Reincarnation Phantasy)This was the story never told By one who cared not for the world's gold. One of the ...
AFTER A CHARITY SERMON. The rich are going to their homes, The clouds of dust arise;For rich men always ...
There's a legend that's told of a gypsy who dwelt In the lands where the pyramids be; And ...
'TIS past: dear venerable shade, farewel!Thy blameless life thy peaceful death shall tell.Clear to the last thy setting orb has ...
My heart is searching for thee,And lost in longing for thy voice!Voice that lies deeper than the permanent sea,Deeper than ...
Beware! The Israelite of old, who tore The lion in his path,--when, poor and blind, He saw the blessed light ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
(A Negro Sermon.) Once, in a night as black as ink, She drove him out when he would not drink. ...
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