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 Faces (9 Poems)
Policeman X (John Oxenham Poems)
IF HE WOULD BUT DAREI stood, unseen, within a sumptous room,Where one clothed all in white sat silently.So sweet his ...
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 ...
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 ...
What Can a Little Chap Do? (John Oxenham Poems)
What can a little chap doFor his country and for you?What CAN a little chap do?He can play a straight ...
Everymaid (John Oxenham Poems)
King's Daughter!Wouldst thou be all fair,Without--within--Peerless and beautiful,A very Queen?Know then:--Not as men build unto the Silent One,--With clang and ...
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 ...
E.A. Nov. 6, 1900 (John Oxenham Poems)
Bright stars of Faith and Hope, her eyes Shall shine for us through all the years. For all her life was Love, ...
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, ...