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 Light (23 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 ...
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 ...
Processionals (John Oxenham Poems)
NORTHWe come from the gloom of the shadowy trail Out away on the fringe of the Night,Where no man could tell, ...
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 ...
All’s Well! (John Oxenham Poems)
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 ...
Livingstone’s Soliloquy (John Oxenham Poems)
"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 ...
Thank God For Peace! (John Oxenham Poems)
_Thank God for Peace_!Up to the sombre skyRolled one great thankful sigh,Rolled one great gladsome cry--The soul's deliverance of a ...
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 ...
Tamate (John Oxenham Poems)
_Great-Heart is dead, they say_,-- Great-Heart the Teacher, Great-Heart the Joyous, Great-Heart the Fearless, Great-Heart the Martyr, Great-Heart of Sweet White Fire._Great-Heart is dead, they ...
God Is Good (John Oxenham Poems)
I faced a future all unknown,No opening could I see,I heard without the night wind moan,The ways were dark to ...
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 ...
They Come! (John Oxenham Poems)
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 ...
Freemen (John Oxenham Poems)
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 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 ...
Bring Us The Light (John Oxenham Poems)
I hear a clear voice calling, calling,Calling out of the night,O, you who live in the Light of Life, Bring us ...
India (John Oxenham Poems)
A land of lights and shadows intervolved,A land of blazing sun and blackest night,A fortress armed, and guarded jealously,With every ...
Shadows (John Oxenham Poems)
Shadows are but for the moment--Quickly past;And then the sun the brighter shinesThat it was overcast.For Light is Life!Gracious and ...
Shut Windows (John Oxenham Poems)
When the outer eye grows dim,Turns the inner eye to Him, Who makes darkness light.Fairer visions you may see,Live in nobler ...
The Pilgrim Way (John Oxenham Poems)
But once I pass this way,And then--no more.But once--and then, the Silent DoorSwings on its hinges,--Opens ... closes,--And no moreI ...
We Thank Thee, Lord (John Oxenham Poems)
We thank Thee, Lord,That of Thy tender grace,In our distressThou hast not left us wholly comfortless.We thank Thee, Lord,That of ...
Wakening (John Oxenham Poems)
This mortal dies,--But, in the moment when the light fails here,The darkness opens, and the vision clearBreaks on his eyes.The ...