Sixth Sunday After Epiphany (John Keble Poems)
There are, who darkling and alone, Would wish the weary night were gone, Though dawning morn should only show The secret of their ...
There are, who darkling and alone, Would wish the weary night were gone, Though dawning morn should only show The secret of their ...
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 ...
We were not by when Jesus came, But round us, far and near, We see His trophies, and His name In choral echoes ...
Ye stars that round the Sun of righteousness In glorious order roll,With harps for ever strung, ready to bless God for each ...
The mid-day sun, with fiercest glare,Broods o'er the hazy twinkling air: Along the level sandThe palm-tree's shade unwavering lies,Just as thy ...
On Sinai's top, in prayer and trance, Full forty nights and forty daysThe Prophet watched for one dear glance Of thee and ...
Twice in her season of decayThe fallen Church hath felt Elijah's eye Dart from the wild its piercing ray:Not keener burns, ...
The clouds that wrap the setting sun When Autumn's softest gleams are ending,Where all bright hues together run In sweet confusion blending: ...
O Lord my God, do thou Thy holy will - I will lie still -I will not stir, lest I forsake ...
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 ...
In troublous days of anguish and rebuke,While sadly round them Israel's children look, And their eyes fail for waiting on their ...
"Lord, in Thy field I work all day,I read, I teach, I warn, I pray,And yet these wilful wandering sheepWithin ...
The Son of God in doing good Was fain to look to Heaven and sigh:And shall the heirs of sinful blood Seek ...
"And is there in God's world so drear a place Where the loud bitter cry is raised in vain?Where tears of ...
Red o'er the forest peers the setting sun, The line of yellow light dies fast awayThat crowned the eastern copse: and ...
Go not away, thou weary soul: Heaven has in store a precious doleHere on Bethsaida's cold and darksome height, Where over rocks ...
The Earth that in her genial breastMakes for the down a kindly nest,Where wafted by the warm south-west It floats at ...
Say, ye celestial guards, who waitIn Bethlehem, round the Saviour's palace gate, Say, who are these on golden wings,That hover o'er ...
The heart of childhood is all mirth: We frolic to and froAs free and blithe, as if on earth Were no such ...
"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 ...
Of the bright things in earth and air How little can the heart embrace!Soft shades and gleaming lights are there - I ...
First Father of the holy seed,If yet, invoked in hour of need, Thou count me for Thine ownNot quite an outcast ...
Creator, Saviour, strengthening Guide,Now on Thy mercy's ocean wideFar out of sight we seem to glide.Help us, each hour, with ...
Hues of the rich unfolding morn,That, ere the glorious sun be born,By some soft touch invisibleAround his path are taught ...
Oh! day of days! shall hearts set freeNo "minstrel rapture" find for thee?Thou art this Sun of other days,They shine ...
Sweet Dove! the softest, steadiest plume, In all the sunbright sky,Brightening in ever-changeful bloom As breezes change on high; -Sweet Leaf! the ...
Who is God's chosen priest?He, who on Christ stands waiting day and night,Who traceth His holy steps, nor ever ceased, From ...
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 ...
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