III: The Nativity (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
So small that lesser lowlinessMust bow to worship or caress:So great that heaven itself to knowLove's majesty must look below.Unto ...
So small that lesser lowlinessMust bow to worship or caress:So great that heaven itself to knowLove's majesty must look below.Unto ...
The gift of utterance is ours,Love's service to proclaim;But in the fragrance of the flowersThere breathes a purer flame.Abiding in ...
In all his glory, SolomonWas never so arrayed;Yet far more beautiful is one—A MOTHER and a MAID—Whose loveliness and lowlinessGod ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
Oh the dear summer evening! How the air is mellow with the delicate breath of flowers and wafts of hay ...
Paraphrased From David's Psalms. Psalm XIX.THE arched heavens ere since the birth of timeInstruct the earth, in characters sublime, ...
The loud winds rattled at the door-The shutters creaked and shook,While Eva, by the cottage hearth,Sat with abstracted look.With every ...
Charity, Charity - parson and priest Ever in church and in chapel have taught -"Give ye in charity e'en to ...
But a scant 2000 folk, no more, Sitting solemn-faced within the pews,While the parsons preach and outward pour, In divers ...
Humility, said Lena, as she drewA well-worn glove upon her sun-burnt hand,"Is the best ornament a Christian knows."I think not ...
IN a far Eastern countryIt happened long of yore,Where a lone and level sunriseFlushes the desert floor,That three kings sat ...
Across the town the evening bell is ringing;Clear comes the call, through kitchen windows winging!Lord, knowing ...
Once I to idols knelt before an empty shrine; Within my lofty walls a soldier-folk abode;Now, casting down my ...
a connotation of infinitysharpens the temporal splendor of this nightwhen souls which have forgot frivolityin lowliness, noting the fatal flightof ...
So humble things Thou hast borne for us, O God,Left'st Thou a path of lowliness untrod?Yes, one, till now; another ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
His piety, his certainty of righteousness a mask, covering his pain, his pride sensing himself at the center more than ...
I met the Bishop on the road And much said he and I. 'Those breasts are flat and fallen now, ...
I met the Bishop on the road And much said he and I. 'Those breasts are flat and fallen now, ...
They say that rhyme and rhythm are Outmoded now. I do not know, for I am far From high of ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
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