Policeman X (John Oxenham Poems)
IF HE WOULD BUT DAREI stood, unseen, within a sumptous room,Where one clothed all in white sat silently.So sweet his ...
IF HE WOULD BUT DAREI stood, unseen, within a sumptous room,Where one clothed all in white sat silently.So sweet his ...
ALL honour, reverence, and due regard,My son! unto thy parents ever give:'Tis God's command! — and thou, for thy reward,Shalt, ...
COME quietly, Britain, all together, come!It is time!We have waited, weighed, and wonderedWho had blundered;Stared askance at one anotherAs our ...
Gethsemane, how oft, grown dim,With bleeding hearts, unpardoned sin,A Cross with pearls, and gems inlaid,God's gift of love, the price ...
(OF AN UNFINISHED POEM.) Dear woman! star of sad life's clouded heaven,I dedicate myself to thee again; Fair woman! as ...
When the war shall have ceased with its sorrow, Its hunger, and horror, and hell, In the ...
Never since the race was started,Had a boy in any clime,Cause to be so thankful-hearted,As the boys of present time.Not ...
The joy of life is living it, or so it seems to me;In finding shackles on your wrists, then struggling ...
Oh, mother, be you brave of heart and keepyour bright eyes shining;Some day the smiles of joy shall start and ...
WHAT would be the use of singing songsIf there was no little woman near to hear them?What would be the ...
It doesn't matter what's the cause, What wrong they say we're righting, A curse for treaties, bonds and laws, When ...
Mowing the path preparing the way making the road smooth righting the stones setting the boundaries making the gate ready ...
Each of our lives just as of old to be measured against the plumb line Yet none of us worthy ...
Righting injustices standing up when opportunity calls doing what is right with love, not hate this we honor, on this ...
So much to lose, station, power, all that he was wealth, possession defining the rich man A challenge to trust ...
A willing, a more perfect sacrifice the lamb of God, sacrificed on the mountain the new Isaac, the firstborn son, ...
An earthy father, a parable man, forgiving his sons for separate sins same sins of selfishness greed, desires for their ...
For more than 40 years we've been good friends, since 1963 in fact, from college where we met (and managed ...
Before my drift-wood fire I sit, And see, with every waif I burn, Old dreams and fancies coloring it, And ...
Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant; Wail of the pines and a wind with the ...
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