Repentance And Faith (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
There was a ship, one eve autumnal, onwardSteer'd o'er an ocean lake,Steer'd by some strong hand ever as if sunward:Behind, ...
There was a ship, one eve autumnal, onwardSteer'd o'er an ocean lake,Steer'd by some strong hand ever as if sunward:Behind, ...
Where the dark primeval forests Rise against the western skyAnd "the Father of the Waters" In his strength goes rushing ...
I AM mine own priest, and I shrive myself Of all my wasted yesterdays. Though sin And sloth and foolishness, ...
In the days before the high tide Swept away the towers of sandBuilt with so much care and labour By ...
And yet it moves! Ah, Truth, where wert thou thenWhen all for thee they racked each piteous limb?Wert thou in ...
One moment, the slim cloudflakes seem to leanWith their sad sunward faces aureoled,And longing lips set downward brighteningTo take the ...
The workers of Kembla, those leaders of men,Those leaders of deed as in thought.They challenged the might of the pound ...
Heard a voice, that cried, "Balder the Beautiful Is dead, is dead!" And through the misty air Passed like the ...
TOSSING his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles, Lion-like March cometh in, hoarse, with tempestuous breath, Through all ...
Joyful, joyful we adore Thee, God of glory, Lord of love, Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee, hail Thee as ...
To the music of Beethoven's ninth symphony Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, God of glory, Lord of love; Hearts unfold ...
'Not by the justice that my father spurn'd, Not for the thousands whom my father slew, Altars unfed and temples ...
ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, 1786 Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil ...
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young ...
The autumn-time has come; On woods that dream of bloom, And over purpling vines, The low sun fainter shines. The ...
In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands, Queen and republican, crowned of the centuries whose years are thy ...
OH, the sudden wings arising from the ploughed fields brown Showered aloft in spray of song the wild-bird twitter floats ...
Gold vessels of fine wines, thousands a gallon, Jade dishes of rare meats, costing more thousands, I lay my chopsticks ...
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