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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
_Each man is Captain of his Soul, And each man his own Crew, But the Pilot knows the Unknown Seas, And He will ...
_Thank God for Peace_!Up to the sombre skyRolled one great thankful sigh,Rolled one great gladsome cry--The soul's deliverance of a ...
_Hark! The drums! Muffled drums!The long low ruffle of the drums_!--And every head is bowed,In the vast expectant crowd,As the ...
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 ...
Rabbi, begone! Thy powersBring loss to us and ours.Our ways are not as Thine.Thou lovest men, we--swine.Oh, get you hence, ...
In Christ there is no East or West, In Him no South or North,But one great Fellowship of Love Throughout the whole ...
Better in bitterest agony to lie,Before Thy throne,Than through much increase to be lifted up on high,And stand alone.Better by ...
To every man there openethA Way, and Ways, and a Way.And the High Soul climbs the High way,And the Low ...
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