Two Altars. (Harriet Annie Wilkins Poems)
"And Cain talked with Abel, his brother."The sun was rising on earth, sin-tainted, yet beautiful,Delicate gold-colored cloudlets in all their ...
"And Cain talked with Abel, his brother."The sun was rising on earth, sin-tainted, yet beautiful,Delicate gold-colored cloudlets in all their ...
I heard the voice of the Death Angel speak, As slowly he pass'd me by,And I saw him throw snow on ...
Cities and men, and nations, have passed by,Like leaves upon an autumn's dreary sky;Like chaff upon the ocean billow proud,Like ...
Amid the forest verdant shade, A peaceful river flowed:Wild flowers their home on its banks had made,The sunbeam's rays on its ...
The Lord Said, "What hast thou done?" Oh, erring Cain,What hast thou done? Upon the blighted earthI hear a melancholy wail ...
"Our poor and penniless brethren, dispersed over land and sea."--Masonic SentimentThey met in the festive hall, Lamps in their brightness shone,And ...
How wildly blows the wintry wind, deep lies the drifting snowOn the hillside, and the roadside, and the valleys down ...
They are gone away,No prayers could avail us to longer keepThe ships called out on the unknown deep,We saw them ...
"Let there be no fuss about me, bury me with my men."The shades of death were gathering thick around a ...
"Where is God my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night."--Bible.The hour of midnight had swept past, The city bell tolled ...
Let me tell you a story, dear, Of someone I saw to-day,Only a man with a pale worn face, And auburn locks ...
"Why are you weeping, ye gentle flowers?Are ye not blest in your sunny bowers?Have you startling dreams that make ye ...
I looked, and the mist had hidden Streamlet and gorge and mountain,Mansion and church had vanished away, No trace of tree or ...
Sleep on, my darling, sleep on,I am keeping watch by your side,I have drawn in the curtains close,And banished the ...
--"Throughout the day, I walk,My path o'ershadowed by vain dreams of him." --Italian Girl's Hymn to the Virgin.Mother, gazing on thy ...
We were wearied in the battle, Tempted, and pained, and triedBy day the din and the carnage, By night the rain's fierce ...
A Legend of the Temple. The dew was gone,The morn was bright, the skies were fair,The flowers smiled neath the sunbeams ...
Onward, sail on in your boundless flight,Neath shadowing skies and moonbeams bright,Kissing the clouds as it drops the rain,Touching the ...
Turn thy fair face to the breaking dawn,Lily so white, that through all the dark,Hast kept lone watch on the ...
_Air--Stephenos_Lo, a knight in armour standing, Ready for the foe;Thee we greet, belov'd Companion, Thee we know.Keep thine oath, oh new made ...
Blest Ruler, at whose wordThe universe was stirred, And there was light;Look now with gracious loveFrom Thy bright home above,Direct in ...
Air--Belmont.Hark! unto thee a voice doth speak, A voice of heavenly breath,And this, the solemn charge it gives, Be faithful unto death.Faithful ...
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