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 ...
Where the great green combers break in thunder on the barrier reefs,--Where, unceasing, sounds the mighty diapason of the deep,--Ringed ...
IF HE WOULD BUT DAREI stood, unseen, within a sumptous room,Where one clothed all in white sat silently.So sweet his ...
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 ...
"A little child shall lead them."I trod an arduous way, but came at lastTo where the city walls rose fair ...
The wind blows shrill along the hill,--_Black is the night and cold_--The sky hangs low with its weight of snow,And ...
Is the pathway dark and dreary? God's in His heaven!Are you broken, heart-sick, weary? God's in His heaven!Dreariest roads shall have an ...
"My heart to-dayIs strangely full of home!How is itWith the dear ones over there? Five years! Five long-drawn years! And one short moment ...
Free men of God, the New Day breaksIn golden gleams across the sky;The darkness of the night is past,This is ...
_With a will! With a will! With a will and surely! Without fail, Drive each nail, Build we so, securely_!The Pioneer,--the Undaunted One,Worn with long ...
Devils' work!Devils' work, my masters! _Britain, your hands are red_!You may close your heart, but you cannot shirkThis terrible fact,--_We--kept--the--Turk_.His day ...
When the Bells of Ys rang softly,--softly, _Soft--and sweet--and low_,Not a sound was heard in the old gray town,As the silvery ...
What shall we be like whenWe cast this earthly body and attainTo immortality?What shall we be like then?Ah, who shall ...
I faced a future all unknown,No opening could I see,I heard without the night wind moan,The ways were dark to ...
From North and South, and East and West, They come!The sorely tried, the much oppressed,Their Faith and Love to manifest, They come!They ...
Our feet have wandered, wandered far and wide,-- _His mercy endureth for ever_!From that strait path in which the Master died,-- _His ...
The Mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small--So soft and slow the great wheels go they scarcely ...
Just do your best,And leave the restTo Him who gave youLife,--And Zeal for Labour,--And the Joy of Strife,--And Zest of ...
Let no man stand between my God and me!I claim a Free man's rightOf intercourse direct with Him,Who gave me ...
What can a little chap doFor his country and for you?What CAN a little chap do?He can play a straight ...
O God, within whose sightAll men have equal right To worship Thee.Break every bar that holdsThy flock in diverse folds!Thy Will ...
O, Prince of Life, Thy Life hath tunedAll life to sweeter, loftier grace!Life's common rounds have wider boundsSince Thou hast ...
Though every nerve be strainedTo fine accomplishment,Full oft the life fall spentBefore the prize is gained.And, in our discontentAt waste ...
I have been tried,Tried in the fire,And I say this,As the result of dire distress,And tribulation sore--That a man's happiness ...
Burden-bearers are we all,Great and small.Burden-sharers be ye all,Great and small!Where another shares the load,Two draw nearer God.Yet there are ...
Some lives are set in narrow ways,By Love's wise tenderness.They seem to suffer all their daysLife's direst storm and stress.But ...
Each sin has its door of entrance.Keep--that--door--closed!Bolt it tight!Just outside, the wild beast crouchesIn the night.Pin the bolt with a ...
The good intent of God became the Christ.And lived on earth--the Living Love of God,That men might draw to closer ...
God is a zealous pruner,For He knows--Who, falsely tender, spares the knifeBut spoils the rose. (John Oxenham)
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