A Little Litany (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
When God turned back eternity and was young,Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth(As under the low arch the ...
When God turned back eternity and was young,Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth(As under the low arch the ...
Nay, I cannot let Thee go,Till a blessing thou bestow;Do not turn away thy face,Mine's an urgent pressing case.Dost thou ...
Approach, my soul, the mercy-seatWhere Jesus answers prayer;There humbly fall before His feet,For none can perish there.Thy promise is my ...
You tell me Adam fell,—he fell,— What has his fall to do with me?If we but walk erect and well, What matters ...
Yet once more, Harp of prophecy, once moreFondly I come soliciting thine aid;By whose celestial minstrelsy inspiredThe saintly Enoch walk'd ...
ACT V.SCENE I. A Room in Susskind's House. LIEBHAID, CLAIRE, REUBEN.LIEBHAID.The air hangs sultry as in mid-July.Look forth, Claire; moves ...
THE SWEETNESSE OF RETIREMENT,OR The Happinesse of a Private Life.The Segregation.THE ARGUMENT. True Blisse! Thou know'st but Few, to Few ...
A Sabbath morn — softly the village bellsRing out their welcome to the sacred day.The weary swain has drunk of ...
'Among many nations was there no King like him.' -Nehemiah, xiii, 26. 'Know ye not that there is a ...
A PAIR of lovers in the street! I dare not mock: with reverence meet My unforgetting heart I cheat. ...
What would you do wi' a doughter- Pray wi' her, bensil(1) her, flout her?-Say, what would you do wi' ...
In all the world is none so happy here Nor is there any joy to match with mine, Since she ...
Joy to the followers of the Lord!Thus saith the sure the eternal word.Not of earth the joy it brings,Tempered in ...
Jesus, He loves one and all,Jesus, He loves children small,Their souls are waiting round His feetOn high, before His mercy-seat.While ...
Lord, let me not thy courts depart,Nor quit thy mercy-seat,Before I feel thee in my heart,And there the Saviour meet.Water ...
'A letter from my love to-day! Oh, unexpected, dear appeal!' She struck a happy tear away, And broke the crimson ...
When God turned back eternity and was young, Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth (As under the low ...
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
Grace and glory. Th' Almighty reigns exalted high O'er all the earth, o'er all the sky; Though clouds and darkness ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
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