Lines Addressed To Sir Alfred Stephen On His 90th Birthday (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
FRIEND, gliding near me on life's widening stream,In whose long wake star-spangled ripples gleam,And from whose prow the pioneering lightKeenly ...
Emily Mary Barton Poems on Light (25 Poems)
Manifestations “God Manifests Himself in Many Ways.” (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
1 - The Savage.YE spirits, hovering near the skies,Or walking awful in the night;O make our old men good and ...
The Song of Life (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
I AROSE to depart when the dew of my dawningYet shone in thine eyes and thine infantile mirth:A dark little ...
A Mother’s Prayer (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
SUFFER the little ones to come to Me,"Forbid them not," the Saviour said: and we,Remembering His words, sure comfort takeThat ...
Convalescence (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
THE poultry yard is all astir, the cock has ceased to crow,And though I cannot see the light, 'tis morning ...
Christmas Dreamerie (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
OVER the waves that were seething in glory.Past the horizon of landscape and lea.Round the steep mountain heights steadfast and ...
The Litany (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
WHEN rejoicing in the light of our Salvation,With the Covenant of Peace upon the mind,We reach the crowning joy of ...
On a Blind Girl Working for the Seamen’s Union (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
YES, she is blind! You well might doubt her doom,Seeing her softly move across the room:And from the organ, in ...
Address of Spirit to Body (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
MANSION assigned me by Eternal Love,While on this lower stage I play my part,In prelude to the harmonies above,How wonderful ...
Responses (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
The ParentsYOUR father still walks in a garden of roses,Praising the gracious Creator of all;In comfort and rapture your mother ...
A Song of Recognition (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
WHEN at early morn I feelHealthful air around me steal:Mark upon the curtains whiteThe slow gradation of the light,And the ...
Immanuel – “God with Us” (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
THE sleeping infant lies contentBeneath adoring mother's eyes -While o'er him linger yet the scentAnd sights and sounds of Paradise:His ...
My Angels (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
OF those who minister to sons of earth,Three Angels were assigned me at my birth:The first was Life, strong, earnest, ...
A Leaf (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
OH Mother Linden, hold me fast,I tremble in the vernal blast,Lest, with its ice-drops cold and keen,It rend my new-made ...
Going to Church (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
THE prayers of saints on clouds of incense rise,Rejoicing angels bear them to the skies,And store them in the treasury ...
Schools and Scholars (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
BONNIE wee laddies, and rosy-check'd lassies,Joyfully trotting to Kindergart classes,How gaily you march to the music of duty;Pictures and poems ...
Reply to the Question: “What is the Wealth of Australia?” (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
AUSTRALIA'S Wealth? Has she not mines of gold,Tin, copper, iron; silver, gems untold?Coal, whose dark lustre makes our dwellings bright,The ...
31st December, 1883 (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
OPEN the beautiful gates of the West,A chariot of gold is waiting the guestWho, for twelve rolling moons, has been ...
Super Flamina (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
BY the dark rolling tide of the world's troubled waters,I sat down and wept on the willowy shore;For the sin ...
To-Day (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
A GEM is ours that never shone before,A sweet white flower that will not bloom again:An open page whereon all ...
Spring-Time (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
LIGHT and short our Winter's sleeping,Dreaming still of sunny hours:In his bosom safely keepingGerms of beauty, folded flow'rs.At the touch ...
The Dying Year (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
CROWN our dying year with flowers,Luscious fruits around him spreadTokens of the toilsome hoursThat have bowed his stately head;O'er him ...
An Ancient Fable (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
O'ER the vast main, through fields of air,A drop of dew fell pure and fair."Ah, me! "she cried," sad fate ...
Aborigines (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
Scorn not the race who once in native rightMarched fearless o'er Australia's sunny plain;Darkness must sink before the breaking light,And ...
New Year Greeting (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
CAST thy cloudy mantle round thee,Weep to leave us, good old Year!Kind and hopeful we have found thee,Shall we part ...