Then and Now (Frances Ellen Watkins Poems)
Build me a nation, said the Lord. The distant nations heard the word, Build me a nation true and strong, ...
Build me a nation, said the Lord. The distant nations heard the word, Build me a nation true and strong, ...
When the frost-king clothed the forests In a flood of gorgeous dyes, Death called little dark-browed Martha ...
ON REMOVING FROM HER NATIVE VILLAGE. The golden rays of sunset fall on a snow-clad hill, As standing ...
Methinks I hear those tuneful chimes, Borne on the breath of morn, Proclaiming to the silent world ...
There are flowers that never wither, There are skies that never fade, There are trees that cast ...
You can sigh o'er the sad-eyed Armenian Who weeps in her desolate home. You can mourn o'er the exile of ...
It shall be a royal mansion, A fair and beautiful thing,It will be the presence-chamber Of thy Saviour, Lord and ...
Outcast from her home in SyriaIn the lonely, dreary wild;Heavy hearted, sorrow stricken,Sat a mother and her child.There was not ...
My bonnet of blue, my bonnet of blue, Its gossamer fineness I'll sing to you; For ...
Out in the cold mid the dreary night,Under the eaves of homes so bright:Snowflakes falling o'er mother's graveWill no one ...
The conies had their hiding-place, The wily fox with stealthy tread A covert found, but Christ, the Lord, Had not ...
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