On The Picture Of An Angel By Fra Angelico (Digby Mackworth Dolben Poems)
Press each on each, sweet wings, and roof me in Some clos?d cell to hold my weariness,Desired—as from unshadowed plains ...
Press each on each, sweet wings, and roof me in Some clos?d cell to hold my weariness,Desired—as from unshadowed plains ...
A TRUCE with life's tumultuous cares,Fled from the world's entangling snares,Let rural joys the mind unbend:Where sportive Health delighted roves,Mid ...
BRING snow-white lilies, pallid heart-flushed roses, Enwreath her brow with heavy-scented flowers; In soft undreaming sleep her head reposes, While, ...
Beauty complete, and majesty divine,In all thy works, ador'd Creator, shine.Where'er I cast my wond'ring eyes around,The God I seek ...
Tell us, tell us, holy shepherds, What at Bethlehem you saw.—'Very God of Very God 'Asleep amid the straw.'Tell us, ...
Sunrise tumbling in like a surf,A foam of petals, curling thousands, lightly crumblingAway into light.Waking to this, how could the ...
In sober garments clad, his staff in hand.The pilgrim fares ; and comes by devious waysPast ancient land-marks, 'neath the ...
Now that the sun is gleaming bright,Implore we, bending low,That He, the uncreated LightMay guide us as we go.No sinful ...
Upon a rock yet uncreate,Amid a chaos inchoate,An uncreated being sate;Beneath him, rock,Above him, cloud. And the cloud was rock,And ...
Elected Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music ...
Creator Spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come, visit ev'ry pious mind; Come, pour thy joys ...
DAUGHTER of Chaos' doting years, Nurse of ten thousand hopes and fears, Whether thy airy, insubstantial shade (The rights of ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
God incomprehensible and sovereign. [Can creatures to perfection find Th' eternal, uncreated Mind? Or can the largest stretch of thought ...
Proper tune. The majesty and condescension of God. Ye that delight to serve the Lord, The honors of his name ...
On Death's domain intent I fix my eyes, Where human nature in vast ruin lies, With pensive mind I search ...
CHORUS If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee, We thy latter sons, the men thine ...
LIGHTEST of dancers, with no thought Thy glimmering feet beat on my heart, Gayest of singers, with no care Waking ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
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