A Butterfly In Church (George Marion McClellan Poems)
What dost thou here, thou shining, sinless thing,With many colored hues and shapely wing?Why quit the open field and summer ...
What dost thou here, thou shining, sinless thing,With many colored hues and shapely wing?Why quit the open field and summer ...
Take heed of this small child of earth; He is great; he hath in him God most high. Children before ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
a bite of bread, a taste of wine symbolic joining hearts and minds, spirits with the creator, sacrificially, sacramentally sharing ...
Crown of thorns on his head Rent his flesh with the spear, the nails Only sinless man Suffering for our ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
Music I love - but never strain Could kindle raptures so divine, So grief assuage, so conquer pain, And rouse ...
THIS last denial of my faith, Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard; And, though upon my bed of death, I call ...
Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it. Yes I am torching ber curves and paps ...
HIS face with smile eternal drest, Just like the Landlord's to his Guest's, High as they hang with creaking din, ...
Say, heav'nly muse, what king or mighty God, That moves sublime from Idumea's road? In Bosrah's dies, with martial glories ...
Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot In that first war, and had his realm restored But rendered ...
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
(To: S.W.) every silent plant in the garden knows two sorts of wishes make up the world: one is conceived ...
There is no woman living who draws breath So sad as I, though all things sadden her. There is not ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart, God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
CHORUS If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee, We thy latter sons, the men thine ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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