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 ...
_With hearts responsive And enfranchised eyes, We thank Thee, Lord,--_For all things beautiful, and good, and true;For things that seemed not good ...
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 ...
NORTHWe come from the gloom of the shadowy trail Out away on the fringe of the Night,Where no man could tell, ...
The wind blows shrill along the hill,--_Black is the night and cold_--The sky hangs low with its weight of snow,And ...
To lift the sombre fringes of the Night,To open lands long darkened to the Light,To heal grim wounds, to give ...
"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 ...
Pearl Iridescent! Pearl of the sea!Shimmering, glimmering Pearl of the sea! White in the sun-flecked Silver Sea, White in the moon-decked Silver ...
_Thank God for Peace_!Up to the sombre skyRolled one great thankful sigh,Rolled one great gladsome cry--The soul's deliverance of a ...
_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 ...
I faced a future all unknown,No opening could I see,I heard without the night wind moan,The ways were dark to ...
There is darkness still, gross darkness, Lord,On this fair earth of Thine.There are prisoners still in the prison-house,Where never a ...
Fold up the tent!The sun is in the West.To-morrow my untented soul will rangeAmong the blest. And I am well content, For ...
Stephen, who died while I stood by consenting, Wrought in his death the making of a life,Bruised one hard heart to ...
Down to the sea, the hungry sea, _O the sea is hungry ever_!Seeking food for the bairns and me,Seeking food in ...
I hear a clear voice calling, calling,Calling out of the night,O, you who live in the Light of Life, Bring us ...
A land of lights and shadows intervolved,A land of blazing sun and blackest night,A fortress armed, and guarded jealously,With every ...
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, ...
"'Tis all a Chequer-Board of Nights and Days,Where Detiny with men for pieces plays,Hither and thither moves, and mates and ...
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 ...
Oft, as he jogs along the Winding-Way,Occasion comes for Every Man to say,--"This Road?--or That?" and as he chooses them,So ...
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