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 ...
_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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
_Each man is Captain of his Soul, And each man his own Crew, But the Pilot knows the Unknown Seas, And He will ...
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 ...
_As It was in the Beginning,--Is Now,--And...? Anno Domini I_. * * * * * "No room! No room!The Inn is full,Yea--overfull.No room have wefor such as ye--Poor ...
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 ...
_Thank God for Peace_!Up to the sombre skyRolled one great thankful sigh,Rolled one great gladsome cry--The soul's deliverance of a ...
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 ...
_Hark! The drums! Muffled drums!The long low ruffle of the drums_!--And every head is bowed,In the vast expectant crowd,As the ...
_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 ...
LORD GOD OF HOSTS, whose mighty handDominion holds on sea and land,In Peace and War Thy Will we seeShaping the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small--So soft and slow the great wheels go they scarcely ...
"A red rose for my helmet,And a word before we part!The rose shall be my oriflammeThe word shall fill my ...
Stephen, who died while I stood by consenting, Wrought in his death the making of a life,Bruised one hard heart to ...
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