Caleb’s Vision (Alfred Gibbs Campbell Poems)
Caleb went, as was his custom, On a quiet Sunday morn,To the house of prayer and worship, Thither by devotion ...
Caleb went, as was his custom, On a quiet Sunday morn,To the house of prayer and worship, Thither by devotion ...
When on the earth had settled moral night,And darkness reigned where once shone Sinai's light;When superstitious rites usurped the placeWhere ...
looked from the mountain height, and sawRapine assume the robes of law!Justice I saw driven out apace,While Robbery climbed to ...
Suggested By The Christiana (Pa.) Treason Trials.Treason? yes, make it treason, if ye will;Build up your gallows, and your victims ...
IAnother life from Life's Fountain,Hath flowed through thy life into being,And entered a deathless existence.The sun may go down in ...
Earth hath no true reality;Its brightest gems doth time corrode;Decay is marked on all we see,And Life is but a ...
Written during the passage of the funeral procession in New York, April 25th, 1865.Ah! our dead President! Bear him to ...
Slavery shall not reign for aye,Though exalted to the sky;Even now the doom is nigh,For a just God reigns on ...
O god! look down and see Outraged Humanity'Neath the Oppressor's rod! Give ear, O God,To the despairing cries Which ever ...
Beneath this mound her hallowed ashes lie; In this dark grave her weary form reposes,And all of her which death ...
ITyrants! your doom is nigh:Short is your reign:Your bondmen's wailing cryTo Heaven againHath risen, and the Infinite GodWhom ye have ...
Whence, O my soul! and wherefore, art thou come?Mysterious inmost! tell me what art thou?Where in the by-gone ages was ...
Dost thou ever feel a longingFor a purer, happier land,Where no vexing sorrows throngingRound thy pathway ever stand?Dost thou feel ...
II know that I shall die;But wherefore should I sigh?Did sighing e'er abateInevitable fate?The grave is dark and drear;But what ...
Our Father! when we wake and see The glories of the morn arise,And midnight shadows swiftly flee Before the day-king's ...
Ho! preachers of His Gospel whoSalvation came to bring,Rest from your labors for awhile,And join our gathering!Ye servants of the ...
Sons of Freedom, rise once more'Gainst a foe upon our shore,Deadlier than all foes of yore; Down with Slavery!Slavery's hounds ...
Oft as I hear the story Of Jesus and his love,It fills my soul with glory Akin to that above,It ...
The deep suspense is o'er;The bloodless battle's past;Freedom from shore to shore, Decreed at last!The People's voice at lengthEchoes the ...
Blessed Death! thou op'st the doorTo the Grand Forevermore!Unto thee the task is givenTo unbar the gates of Heaven!Thou alone ...
Soldier of Christ, no more!Victor — thy warfare 's done.For thee the battle's roar Is hushed. Thy crown is won!Oh! ...
Dear Mrs. Montross, May no troubles e'er crossYour journey through life, but may all Your pathway be bright, And your ...
One thought, all other thoughts above,Shall guide me wheresoe'er I rove,Shall all my soul's devotion move,The blessed thought that "God ...
Though Death now seem triumphant, as he wavesHis dreadful banner o'er a world of graves,And feasts, with ghoulish glee, on ...
My dear, true wife, Life of my life,And my heart's solace only, Thou knowest not How drear my lotWithout thee, ...
No prophet speaks to-day,No voice from heaven we hear;Cheerless we grope our wayThrough darkness and in fear.Quenched are our Altar ...
God speed the happy time When fear and hate and crime Shall flee away:When Love, her flag unfurled,Shall o'er a ...
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