A Test Of Love (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
The land of Avia, lovely is the scene,Clothed every evening in a silvery sheen;The rippling brook and birds make music ...
The land of Avia, lovely is the scene,Clothed every evening in a silvery sheen;The rippling brook and birds make music ...
An old man living near his master,Ever since he was made free;He saw in him an evil spirit,A spirit that ...
De peopl' call me a conger,Jus' caus' I do som' tricks,An' caus' I got dis lucky black cat bone,Can gather ...
Around the glowing fireside of the nationA vacant chair no one can ever fill;Death came, and stole from it a ...
Pray, listen brethren, while I speak,I speak of loving father Browne;In vain another you may seek,Yet not another can be ...
My dear old home's not like it used to be,Since my dear old mother died;Sunshine from it has passed away,The ...
A song I sing a blessing so divine,Which all can feel yet no one can define;It comes like hallowed glory ...
Anna, Child, the spring has come,Listen to the robins, dear;The honeysuckles are in bloom,The fragrance fills the air.A dove is ...
I do not know the ocean's song,Or what the brooklets say;At eve I sit and listen long,I cannot learn their ...
Lord God of Hosts incline thine ear,To this Thy humble servant's prayer;May war and strife and discord cease,This Century, Lord ...
My dearest child, I have no wealth to give you,No ring of gold to you can I impart;Going, yet why ...
How true, dear, my love is;Too great to compare,Truer than the stars,That shoot from their sphere;Think how the sun setsAnd ...
Oh, victorious Queen, it's through thy loyal graceI bring this wreath-a token from my race;True, thou art gone, no more ...
In a flower garden beautiful and tall,Stood a bloomed lily above them all;The lily was slender made,Yet a humming bird ...
Oh, beloved wife of the dear departed,To thee I sing: be not brok'n hearted;The God that called thy loved one ...
'Twas in a park beneath a tree,Upon a rustic seat;The evenings when the sun was low,Edith and I would meet.'Twas ...
Why was I born if this ends all,All that I'll ever be;To feel a spirit that's divine,No chance to let ...
Love! O passion! O woman!Return what thou hast stole:Ambition, heart, and treasure,O free the weary soul.Loose thy suffering victim;Unbar the ...
Tell me, deep ocean, why not be still,Why not this surging cease,Why shouldst thou sing this mournful sound,And why not ...
So oft I've read what poets sang of love,To feel their joy far years in vain I sought;At last love ...
From out the rosy dawn the sun comes forth;See, love, what robes of splendor dawns the sea!So is my soul ...
Life is a boundless sea, on which men float;Succeed we may to ride the waves of Fate,Yet still within our ...
If love could see each other's heart,And read the truth which they impart;Much doubt and fears it would relieve,No love ...
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