Oft As I Hear The Story (Alfred Gibbs Campbell Poems)
Oft as I hear the story Of Jesus and his love,It fills my soul with glory Akin to that above,It ...
Oft as I hear the story Of Jesus and his love,It fills my soul with glory Akin to that above,It ...
I would be free! I will be free!What though the world laugh at me?To me alike are its smiles and ...
Hark to what the angels say! Watch and pray While you may, Work alway,Time is flying fast away!O! my soul, ...
One, dressed in purple and linen,Sat at his ease, in state;The other, a leprous beggar,Lay at the rich man's gate:Dainty ...
Hurrah for the fourth of July! Throw out your flag to the breeze!Let your wild shouts ascend the sky, And ...
Blessed Jesus, who for meGave Thy life a ransom free,Wash me in the precious floodOf Thy dear redeeming blood:Let me ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Human life is all a mystery, — Dark and dreary, wild and sad;Every heart hath the same history, Strugglings 'twixt ...
Though Death now seem triumphant, as he wavesHis dreadful banner o'er a world of graves,And feasts, with ghoulish glee, on ...
When the proud monarch, from the hill-top, sawThe plains beneath him covered with his troops,And, on the sea beyond, his ...
My dear, true wife, Life of my life,And my heart's solace only, Thou knowest not How drear my lotWithout thee, ...
If Thou, dear Lord, art mine,If I indeed am Thine,Send down Thy holy lightAnd banish all my night.My constant, welcome ...
Though the world my choice deride,I will trust the CrucifiedWho for my redemption died.I will trust the Crucified.Oh! my soul, ...
No prophet speaks to-day,No voice from heaven we hear;Cheerless we grope our wayThrough darkness and in fear.Quenched are our Altar ...
Though "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave,"His noble soul looks down on the land he died to save,And ...
Drifting on Life's stormy sea, Tossed by raging wind and wave, Jesus, me from shipwreck save,Dearest Lord, my pilot be.Thou ...
On the stream of wedded life Hath your bark begun to glide;Oh! may no sad breath of strife Ever ruffle ...
All of us have our ships at sea; Will they ever reach port, I wonder.A few may sail in merrily, ...
Flattery, fair but false, retire!Off, incorrigible liar,With thy tongue and pen of fire!Here thy words are needed not:Ever sacred be ...
God speed the happy time When fear and hate and crime Shall flee away:When Love, her flag unfurled,Shall o'er a ...
Beauteous and fair, our little child To us a while was given:The angels looked upon him, smiled, And led him ...
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