Kapiolani (John Oxenham Poems)
Where the great green combers break in thunder on the barrier reefs,--Where, unceasing, sounds the mighty diapason of the deep,--Ringed ...
John Oxenham Poems on Death & Dying (17 Poems)
A Little Te Deum Of The Commonplace (John Oxenham Poems)
_With hearts responsive And enfranchised eyes, We thank Thee, Lord,--_For all things beautiful, and good, and true;For things that seemed not good ...
The Ballad of Lost Souls (John Oxenham Poems)
With the thirty pieces of silver,They bought the Potter's Field;For none would have the blood-moneyAnd the interest it might yield.The ...
The Gate (John Oxenham Poems)
"A little child shall lead them."I trod an arduous way, but came at lastTo where the city walls rose fair ...
Livingstone (John Oxenham Poems)
To lift the sombre fringes of the Night,To open lands long darkened to the Light,To heal grim wounds, to give ...
New Year’s Day–And Every Day (John Oxenham Poems)
_Each man is Captain of his Soul, And each man his own Crew, But the Pilot knows the Unknown Seas, And He will ...
Seeds (John Oxenham Poems)
What shall we be like whenWe cast this earthly body and attainTo immortality?What shall we be like then?Ah, who shall ...
Darkness And Light (John Oxenham Poems)
There is darkness still, gross darkness, Lord,On this fair earth of Thine.There are prisoners still in the prison-house,Where never a ...
For the Men at the Front (John Oxenham Poems)
LORD GOD OF HOSTS, whose mighty handDominion holds on sea and land,In Peace and War Thy Will we seeShaping the ...
Flowers Of The Dust (John Oxenham Poems)
The Mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small--So soft and slow the great wheels go they scarcely ...
The Word That Was Left Unsaid (John Oxenham Poems)
"A red rose for my helmet,And a word before we part!The rose shall be my oriflammeThe word shall fill my ...
Stephen–Saul (John Oxenham Poems)
Stephen, who died while I stood by consenting, Wrought in his death the making of a life,Bruised one hard heart to ...
Quo Vadis? (John Oxenham Poems)
Peter, outworn,And menaced by the sword,Shook off the dust of Rome;And, as he fled,Met one, with eager face,Hastening cityward,And, to ...
The Shadow (John Oxenham Poems)
Shapeless and grim,A Shadow dimO'erhung the ways,And darkened all my days.And all who saw,With bated breath,Said, "It is Death!"And I, ...
The Long Road (John Oxenham Poems)
Long the road, Till Love came down it!Dark the life, Till Love did crown it!Dark the life, And long the road,Till Love came To ...
The Vail (John Oxenham Poems)
He only sees both sides of that dark vailThat hangs before men's eyes--He only. It is well!Hope ever stands unseenBehind ...
God’s Handwriting (John Oxenham Poems)
He writes in characters too grandFor our short sight to understand;We catch but broken strokes, and tryTo fathom all the ...