‘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 ...
LET us not scorn the Mother Earth from whom we all proceed:The garden planted by our Lord with vivifying seed;Whose ...
1 - The Savage.YE spirits, hovering near the skies,Or walking awful in the night;O make our old men good and ...
SUFFER the little ones to come to Me,"Forbid them not," the Saviour said: and we,Remembering His words, sure comfort takeThat ...
OVER the waves that were seething in glory.Past the horizon of landscape and lea.Round the steep mountain heights steadfast and ...
IN earnest expectation the sons of God remain,While all Creation groaneth and travaileth in pain;Then shall not man, with deepest ...
WHEN rejoicing in the light of our Salvation,With the Covenant of Peace upon the mind,We reach the crowning joy of ...
YES, she is blind! You well might doubt her doom,Seeing her softly move across the room:And from the organ, in ...
Written Just Before Leaving EnglandTHERE are bright mountains in the happy West;The sun's last rays upon their summits rest;Above their ...
THE sleeping infant lies contentBeneath adoring mother's eyes -While o'er him linger yet the scentAnd sights and sounds of Paradise:His ...
OF those who minister to sons of earth,Three Angels were assigned me at my birth:The first was Life, strong, earnest, ...
DEAR BOB, you tell me I must write to you,And write in verse a pleasant recreation;But, O, the pen that ...
I WILL not seek the comfort of my bedOr press the pillow with my troubled head;I will not let my ...
THE prayers of saints on clouds of incense rise,Rejoicing angels bear them to the skies,And store them in the treasury ...
THE tenderness and sanctity of HomePervade the haunts of men from pole to pole;While cottage, castle, and imperial domeAlike demand ...
E'EN as a little child, with open book,Will to his teacher go and meekly say,In humble guise, yet wistful, earnest ...
LET us, my brethren, deeply meditateUpon the glorious teachings of our Lord;How sweet His invitations, "and how greatHis promises to ...
DIVINELY varied are the forms of speech,Grand are the uses that to words belong,To win, to awe, to sooth, command, ...
MASTER Spirit of vibration,Strike the note, adjust the key,Tune the tones of all CreationInto harmony with Thee.Let no wail of ...
THE waves of care that round me crept at morn,Rolled high at noon, then sank with vesper chime,Have left me ...
THE Angel of the Lord encampeth roundThe souls that seek His Truth in hope and faith,Whose ears are open to ...
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