‘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 ...
FRIEND, gliding near me on life's widening stream,In whose long wake star-spangled ripples gleam,And from whose prow the pioneering lightKeenly ...
1 - The Savage.YE spirits, hovering near the skies,Or walking awful in the night;O make our old men good and ...
FROM youth to age, in calm and storm, in fine and cloudy weather,My harmless little pen and I have safely ...
I AROSE to depart when the dew of my dawningYet shone in thine eyes and thine infantile mirth:A dark little ...
SUFFER the little ones to come to Me,"Forbid them not," the Saviour said: and we,Remembering His words, sure comfort takeThat ...
1st November, 1840Happy the babe that closes its young eyes'Ere they have looked on sorrow, and defiesThe hand of Time ...
THE poultry yard is all astir, the cock has ceased to crow,And though I cannot see the light, 'tis morning ...
1st November, 1837Another bright summer for ever has fled.And the song of the warblers is silent and dead;The heavens are ...
OVER the waves that were seething in glory.Past the horizon of landscape and lea.Round the steep mountain heights steadfast and ...
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 ...
I am coming! I am coming! with my joyous tones of mirth.I am coming! I am coming! to gladden all ...
YES, she is blind! You well might doubt her doom,Seeing her softly move across the room:And from the organ, in ...
(Suggested By A Fine Horse, Restive In Youth, But Useful In Age.)IN the cool of a summer evening.'Mid pleasant sights ...
MANSION assigned me by Eternal Love,While on this lower stage I play my part,In prelude to the harmonies above,How wonderful ...
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 ...
Written Just Before Leaving EnglandTHERE are bright mountains in the happy West;The sun's last rays upon their summits rest;Above their ...
WHERE are they all, those once so fondly cherished,Whose lips respond no more, whose forms have perish'd,On whom we vainly ...
The ParentsYOUR father still walks in a garden of roses,Praising the gracious Creator of all;In comfort and rapture your mother ...
WHEN at early morn I feelHealthful air around me steal:Mark upon the curtains whiteThe slow gradation of the light,And the ...
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 ...
LONG months, aye years, of dreary dearthHave scathed the beauty of the earth;No humblest weed, no blade of green,For miles ...
MY poor old body, I am sorry for you,Shatter'd and shaken as you needs must be,'Ere you attain the only ...
MY home in the desert, my beautiful home!How bright the first glimpse of thy vine-cover'd rail!How gladly once more to ...
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