‘The Defence Of Rorke’s Drift’: A Reverie In The Art Gallery (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
"The fierceness of man shall turn to Thy praise."HAIL, thoughtful wanderer, to these halls of Art,Here, let her bright conceptions ...
"The fierceness of man shall turn to Thy praise."HAIL, thoughtful wanderer, to these halls of Art,Here, let her bright conceptions ...
1st November, 1840Happy the babe that closes its young eyes'Ere they have looked on sorrow, and defiesThe hand of Time ...
RUINS! Alas we have been wont to say,With half regretful tone, that in the graceAnd glory of our country's youthful ...
WHEN rejoicing in the light of our Salvation,With the Covenant of Peace upon the mind,We reach the crowning joy of ...
IN earnest expectation the sons of God remain,While all Creation groaneth and travaileth in pain;Then shall not man, with deepest ...
YES, she is blind! You well might doubt her doom,Seeing her softly move across the room:And from the organ, in ...
IN other lands we welcomed thee from out the drifting snow,With yule-log blazing on the hearth, beneath the mistletoe,The hoarse ...
IN a weary land of exile there has come to me a token,A wreath of pearly mistletoe around a holly ...
As mortals, we feel that this world is but dreary,As Christians, we cannot, we would not remain;As pilgrims, how soon ...
A GEM is ours that never shone before,A sweet white flower that will not bloom again:An open page whereon all ...
F. L. WISE.As when Judea's widows mourned as deadThe friend who fashioned garments for the poor,So, tribute upon tribute here ...
I WILL arise, and from this earthly plane,To Thee, my Spirit-Father, I will go,Revealing all my suffering, sin, and pain,The ...
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