John Oxenham Poems on Sense & Perception Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

IF HE WOULD BUT DAREI stood, unseen, within a sumptous room,Where one clothed all in white sat silently.So sweet his ...

"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, ...

To lift the sombre fringes of the Night,To open lands long darkened to the Light,To heal grim wounds, to give ...

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 ...

There is darkness still, gross darkness, Lord,On this fair earth of Thine.There are prisoners still in the prison-house,Where never a ...

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 ...

What can a little chap doFor his country and for you?What CAN a little chap do?He can play a straight ...

I hear a clear voice calling, calling,Calling out of the night,O, you who live in the Light of Life, Bring us ...

Though every nerve be strainedTo fine accomplishment,Full oft the life fall spentBefore the prize is gained.And, in our discontentAt waste ...

When the outer eye grows dim,Turns the inner eye to Him, Who makes darkness light.Fairer visions you may see,Live in nobler ...

He writes in characters too grandFor our short sight to understand;We catch but broken strokes, and tryTo fathom all the ...

When, with bowed head,And silent-streaming tears,With mingled hopes and fears,To earth we yield our dead;The Saints, with clearer sight,Do cry ...

John Oxenham Poems on Sense & Perception (14 Poems)