To The Virgin Mary (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
Mother of Him we call the Christ, No halo round thy brows we paint,-Incense and prayer we offer not, Nor mind to ...
Mother of Him we call the Christ, No halo round thy brows we paint,-Incense and prayer we offer not, Nor mind to ...
A servant of the living God is dead! His errand hath been well and early done, And early hath he gone to ...
Dear brothers and sisters, we love one another,And have done, for years that have gone;How often we've met him in ...
August, twas the twenty-fifth,Seventeen houndred forty-six,The Indians did in ambush lay,Some very valiant men to slayTwas nigh unto Sam Dickinson's ...
Beneath the tyrant Satan's yokeOur souls were long oppressed;Till grace our galling fetters broke,And gave the weary rest.Jesus, in that ...
When Jesus, by the Virgin brought,So runs the law of Heaven,Was offer'd holy to the Lord,And at the altar given;Simeon ...
THE aged Simeon waited longIn Zion's holy fane,Amid an unbelieving throngTo hail Messiah's reign;On God's high promise he relied,And saw ...
Like Simeon of old,The new-born Babe I holdUpon my heart:According to thy word,Let now thy servant, Lord,In peace depart. (John ...
Young Shechem all the night impatient lay;And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;With ardent longings waits the promis'd hour,And ...
The jocund years with smiling plenty crown'd,In shining circles now advanc'd their round:Unbounded crops reward the reaper's toil,And rustick pleasures ...
Mean time the Pagan deities, displeas'd To find the public storms so soon appeas'd, Studious attempt by new malicious ways, ...
The priests stood waiting in the holy place, Impatient of delay (Isaiah had been read),When sudden up ...
Well, one morning real earlyI was going down the street,And I heard a stranger askingFor Missis Chloe Fleet.There was something ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
The words of Simeon in the coming of Jesus into his arms I have seen Your Salvation the promise in ...
Muttered Henry:â?"Lord of matter, thus: upon some more unquiet spirit knock, my madnesses have cease. All the quarter astonishes a ...
The song of Simeon; or, Death made desirable. Luke 2:27ff Lord, at thy temple we appear, As happy Simeon came, ...
For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. For a toad enjoys a finer prospect ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
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