Bye and Bye (George Johnston Poems)
Shadowy, dreamy phantoms ever risingUp before wild Fancy's eyes,With their untold and beauteous splendor,Make us present things despise.And procrastination whispers ...
Shadowy, dreamy phantoms ever risingUp before wild Fancy's eyes,With their untold and beauteous splendor,Make us present things despise.And procrastination whispers ...
Servant of God, rememberThe stream thy soul bedewing,The grace that came upon theeAnointing and renewing.When kindly slumber calls thee,Upon thy ...
When the scheming Fusion fewSought to snare the Lib'ral crew,It was plain for all to view ...
Don't worry, little girl,Don't you let one golden curlGet awry.Don't you ever let appearE'en the symbol of a tearIn your ...
GLEAMING through clouds, the low and western sun Of river-side lights up the rocky face;See there, as by magician's lantern, ...
Under the bunker, where the reek of kerosene Prepared the marriage rite, leader and whore, Imperfect kindling even in this ...
The betrayer at the table with him worried about the costly nard stealing from the purse selfish, controlling believing in ...
So much of his life his turn to the center set on Jerusalem his destiny in these words Cursed, jealous ...
Parallels in the stories the king and the leaders two ends of Christ's life each corrupted by their power And ...
In secret, and in darkness the storm cloud more than gathering Christ before the Sanhedrin scheming to put him to ...
Unfairly accused in the mockery of the trial in secret, in the night the righteous acting unjustly Scheming to catch ...
Only if God wishes the future we plan for life's days numbered by the one who knows all All of ...
In secret, in darkness the king, the powerful, plotted seeking to hide, to extinguish to blot out the light Gathering, ...
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
Henry the Seventh of England Wasn't out of the Royal top drawer, The only connection of which he could boast, ...
Where were you Shirley of the Sanguine Lake? Where did you disappear? The echoes of your empty house Were almost ...
Were meetings destined then this was one to take a leading place, the oracle decreed it fate in a matrix ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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