St. Matthew (John Keble Poems)
Ye hermits blest, ye holy maids, The nearest Heaven on earth, Who talk with God in shadowy glades, Free from rude care and ...
Ye hermits blest, ye holy maids, The nearest Heaven on earth, Who talk with God in shadowy glades, Free from rude care and ...
My Saviour, can it ever beThat I should gain by losing Thee?The watchful mother tarries nigh,Though sleep have closed her ...
I marked a rainbow in the north, What time the wild autumnal sun From his dark veil at noon looked forth, As glorying ...
The world's a room of sickness, where each heart Knows its own anguish and unrest; The truest wisdom there, and noblest art, Is ...
Two clouds before the summer gale In equal race fleet o'er the sky:Two flowers, when wintry blasts assail, Together pins, together die.But ...
Foe of mankind! too bold thy race: Thou runn'st at such a reckless pace,Thine own dire work thou surely wilt confound: 'Twas ...
"Father to me thou art and mother dear, And brother too, kind husband of my heart -So speaks Andromache in boding ...
"Angel of wrath! why linger in mid-air, While the devoted city's cryLouder and louder swells? and canst thou spare, Thy full-charged vial ...
The year begins with Thee, And Thou beginn'st with woe,To let the world of sinners see That blood for sin must flow. Thine ...
"O holy mountain of my God,"How do thy towers in ruin lie,"How art thou riven and strewn abroad,"Under the rude ...
Sweet Dove! the softest, steadiest plume, In all the sunbright sky,Brightening in ever-changeful bloom As breezes change on high; -Sweet Leaf! the ...
When Persecution's torrent blaze Wraps the unshrinking Martyr's head;When fade all earthly flowers and bays, When summer friends are gone and fled,Is ...
O Youth and Joy, your airy treadToo lightly springs by Sorrow's bed,Your keen eye-glances are too bright,Too restless for a ...
As when the Paschal week is o'er,Sleeps in the silent aisles no more The breath of sacred song,But by the rising ...
Where is Thy favoured haunt, eternal Voice, The region of Thy choice,Where, undisturbed by sin and earth, the soul Owns Thy entire ...
The shower of moonlight falls as still and clear Upon this desert mainAs where sweet flowers some pastoral garden cheer With fragrance ...
Is this a time to plant and build,Add house to house, and field to field,When round our walls the battle ...
When brothers part for manhood's race, What gift may most endearing proveTo keep fond memory its her place, And certify a brother's ...
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