Heard On The Mountain (Francis Thompson Poems)
From Hugo's 'Feuilles d'Automne'.Have you sometimes, calm, silent, let your tread aspirant riseUp to the mountain's summit, in the presence ...
From Hugo's 'Feuilles d'Automne'.Have you sometimes, calm, silent, let your tread aspirant riseUp to the mountain's summit, in the presence ...
A sound of woe in Salem! — mournful criesRose from her dwellings — youthful cheeks were pale,Tears flowing fast from ...
My Love, and once again my Love,And then no more until the end,Until the waters cease to move,Until we rest ...
Content thee, greedie heart.Modest and moderate joyes to those, that haveTitle to more hereafter when ...
I. Hearken, (for it concerns you near) to me All you that happy wish to be. Would you be certain ...
Descend , O Muse, With More Than Wonted Fire,Ere Deadly Silence Steals Upon My Lyre; Come, Let The Solemn ...
Flie vale-bred Muse to heauen-high Mont-ague Honoring thy playnesse with so quaint aspire It is a baggard Hawke ...
God is our Hope and Strength, a present Aid,When threat'ning Dangers on all Sides invade;Altho' the Cloud-topt Mountains tott'ring shake,And ...
AS thou in Sion praise did'st hear,O! God, in Britain now,An altar to thy name we rear,And pay the grateful ...
(For Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea) Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of ...
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost To reach secure at length his native coast, Who wandering long o'er distant lands ...
Yes, sad one of Sion, if closely resembling, In shame and in sorrow, thy wither'd-up heart -- If drinking deep, ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
How lovely are thy dwellings fair! O Lord of Hoasts, how dear The pleasant Tabernacles are! Where thou do'st dwell ...
Done Aug. 8. 1653. Terzetti. Why do the Gentiles tumult, and the Nations Muse a vain thing, the Kings of ...
Among the holy Mountains high Is his foundation fast, There Seated in his Sanctuary, His Temple there is plac't. Sions ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
HAIL holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
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