To Alexander Meiklejohn (John Henry Newman Beecher Poems)
I read your testimony and I thoughthere is the man perfected that I knewand reverenced next him who gave me ...
I read your testimony and I thoughthere is the man perfected that I knewand reverenced next him who gave me ...
Thus sung I in these grounds erewhile, perchance Tempted by sudden aptitude of words Into that measure which least pleaseth me, Sacred to ...
On a sleigh, padded with straw,Barely covered by the fateful mat,From the Vorobevy hills to the familiar chapelWe rode through ...
Mean while loquacious Fame the News thro'--out Each Corner of the Land had spread about. The Monster Fame; by Stealth ...
By this, sad Hero, with love unacquainted,Viewing Leander's face, fell down and fainted.He kissed her and breathed life into her ...
Eight years have fled since, in the wilderness,I drew the rein to rest my comrade there-My supple, clean-limbed pony of ...
IO, that the years had language! time would tell,Of one bright night the moon has loved so well, For oft ...
On the silent ages breaking Comes the sweet Annunciation:The eternal Ave waking, Changes Eva's condemnation.How at Nazareth the Archangel Hailed ...
They may talk of the eloquence famous in story; Of the names that through ages continue to shine;There never has ...
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
Oh to be like John, John Wesley our founder, the beginning of the faith to see the miners, the men ...
A travelogue of a busy apostle forgetting to mention what would seem a significant moment a resurrection, after all doesn't ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
I Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep ...
There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams hurry too rapidly down to the sea, and the pressure of ...
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
(Washington, August, 1918)I HAVE seen this city in the day and the sun. I have seen this city in the ...
Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas. Half the catalogue of ships is mine: that flight of cranes, long stretched-out line, that once ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
The bloom was off the economic recovery. "I just want to know one thing," she said. What was that one ...
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