The Deliverance (Frances Ellen Watkins Poems)
Master only left old MistusOne bright and handsome boy;But she fairly doted on him,He was her pride and joy.We all ...
Master only left old MistusOne bright and handsome boy;But she fairly doted on him,He was her pride and joy.We all ...
Build me a nation, said the Lord. The distant nations heard the word, Build me a nation true and strong, ...
A SONG. Come to me when I'm dying; Gaze on my wasted form, Tired with so ...
In the liquid vault of ether hung the starry gems of light, Blazing with unwonted splendor on the ebon ...
Moses sought again the presence of the king:And Pharaoh's brow grew dark with wrath,And rising up in angry haste, he ...
He lifted up his pleading eyes, And scanned each cruel face, Where cold and brutal cowardice Had left its evil ...
Methinks I hear those tuneful chimes, Borne on the breath of morn, Proclaiming to the silent world ...
Twas a night of dreadful horror, — Death was sweeping through the land; And the wings of dark destruction Were ...
Say not the age is hard and cold—I think it brave and grand;When men of diverse sects and creedsAre clasping ...
Maceo dead! a thrill of sorrow Through our hearts in sadness ran When we felt in one sad hour That ...
You can sigh o'er the sad-eyed Armenian Who weeps in her desolate home. You can mourn o'er the exile of ...
I'm tired, I'm tired of life, brother! Of all that meets my eye; And my weary spirit ...
It shall be a royal mansion, A fair and beautiful thing,It will be the presence-chamber Of thy Saviour, Lord and ...
For me a dimness slowly creepsAround earth's fairest light,But heaven grows clearer to my view,And fairer to my sight.It may ...
Two little children sit by my side, I call them Lily and Daffodil; I gaze on them with a mother's ...
We may sigh o'er the heavy burdens Of the black, the brown and white; But if we all clasped hands ...
They shall see Him in the crimson flush Of morning's early light, In the drapery of sunset, Around the couch ...
Too frail to soar — a feeble thing — It fell to earth with fluttering wing; But God, who watches ...
Do you see this grain of sandLying loosely in my hand?Do you know to me it broughtJust a simple loving ...
The conies had their hiding-place, The wily fox with stealthy tread A covert found, but Christ, the Lord, Had not ...
Build me a house, said the Master, "But not on the shifting sand, Mid the wreck and roar of tempests, ...
The prison-house in which I live Is falling to decay, But God renews my spirit's strength, Within these walls of ...
God bless our native land, Land of the newly free, Oh may she ever stand For truth and liberty. God ...
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