Festus – XLIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Man's final doom conceive: the award to allEarth's tribes of souls by spirits elect, their chiefsSaintly, themselves through purifying ruleOf ...
Man's final doom conceive: the award to allEarth's tribes of souls by spirits elect, their chiefsSaintly, themselves through purifying ruleOf ...
You shall not be overboldWhen you deal with arctic cold,As late I found my lukewarm bloodChilled wading in the snow-choked ...
Who is he who leadeth legionsIn glittering array, while the cloudsAre tipped in living lightning,And the sky overlaced with its ...
Himself it was who wroteHis rank, and quartered his own coat.There is no king nor sovereign stateThat can fix a ...
MY God! would that, from earthly trammels free,My thoughts could win their upward way to thee,And there a while in ...
Father, I bring before Thy throneA heart more dear to me than mine;O! watch it with Thine eyes benign,And take ...
Hearken O God unto a Wretches cryesWho low dejected at thy footstool lies.Let not the clamour of my heinous sinDrown ...
FATHER in Heaven, we seek Thy faceWhen darkness is our dwelling-place.Our foolish hearts, that daily roam,Would nightly nestle with Thee ...
Behold, with my naked hands did I part my ribs,Baring my heart in a basin of scarlet.Into this did I ...
Bird of insanity in this house of nervesdives in transport into the darknessthat she has somehow come to love,but doesn't ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
You see this Tea, no milk or sugar in it,Like peat-born water's brown translucency,Where deep and still it lingers through ...
How sweet the chime of the Sabbath bells!Each one its creed in music tellsIn tones that float upon the airAs ...
Thou long disowned, reviled, oppressed,Strange friend of human kind,Seeking through weary years a restWithin our hearts to find; —How late ...
Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand, As epitaph: He chucked up everything And just cleared off, And always the voice will sound ...
The refining fire, the fire of Pentecost the fire guiding the people by night fire burning, not consuming the burning ...
Himself it was who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That ...
Baptism. Matt. 28:19; Acts 2:38. 'Twas the commission of our Lord, "Go teach the nations, and baptize:" The nations have ...
The promises of the covenant of grace. Isa. 55:1,2; Zech. 13:1; Mic. 7:19; Ezek. 36:25, etc. In vain we lavish ...
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
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