Fourth Sunday After Easter (John Keble Poems)
My Saviour, can it ever beThat I should gain by losing Thee?The watchful mother tarries nigh,Though sleep have closed her ...
My Saviour, can it ever beThat I should gain by losing Thee?The watchful mother tarries nigh,Though sleep have closed her ...
Stately thy walls, and holy are the prayers Which day and night before thine altars rise:Not statelier, towering o'er her marble ...
It was not then a poet's dream, An idle vaunt of song,Such as beneath the moon's soft gleam On vacant fancies throng;Which ...
On Sinai's top, in prayer and trance, Full forty nights and forty daysThe Prophet watched for one dear glance Of thee and ...
"Father to me thou art and mother dear, And brother too, kind husband of my heart -So speaks Andromache in boding ...
Hold up thy mirror to the sun, And thou shalt need an eagle's gaze,So perfectly the polished stone Gives back the glory ...
Why blow'st thou not, thou wintry wind, Now every leaf is brown and sere, And idly droops, to thee resigned, The fading chaplet ...
What went ye out to see O'er the rude sandy lea,Where stately Jordan flows by many a palm, Or where Gennesaret's wave Delights ...
O God of Mercy, God of Might,How should pale sinners bear the sight,If, as Thy power in surely here,Thine open ...
The bright-haired morn is glowing O'er emerald meadows gay,With many a clear gem strewing The early shepherd's way.Ye gentle elves, by Fancy ...
"O holy mountain of my God,"How do thy towers in ruin lie,"How art thou riven and strewn abroad,"Under the rude ...
Who is God's chosen priest?He, who on Christ stands waiting day and night,Who traceth His holy steps, nor ever ceased, From ...
"Fill high the bowl, and spice it well, and pourThe dews oblivious: for the Cross is sharp, The Cross is sharp, ...
Where is the land with milk and honey flowing, The promise of our God, our fancy's theme?Here over shattered walls dank ...
Where is Thy favoured haunt, eternal Voice, The region of Thy choice,Where, undisturbed by sin and earth, the soul Owns Thy entire ...
The voice that from the glory came To tell how Moses died unseen,And waken Joshua's spear of flame To victory on the ...
Sit down and take thy fill of joy At God's right hand, a bidden guest,Drink of the cup that cannot cloy, Eat ...
As rays around the source of lightStream upward ere he glow in sight,And watching by his future flight Set the clear ...
Oh! say not, dream not, heavenly notes To childish ears are vain,That the young mind at random floats, And cannot reach the ...
Oh! who shall dare in this frail sceneOn holiest happiest thoughts to lean, On Friendship, Kindred, or on Love?Since not Apostles' ...
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