The Johnstown Disaster, 1889 (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Look down, ye Alleghenies, into the Conemaugh vale,And see the rising waters, and hear the bitter wail;The swollen streams now ...
Look down, ye Alleghenies, into the Conemaugh vale,And see the rising waters, and hear the bitter wail;The swollen streams now ...
The Shah Jehan sat with his much-loved wife, The Empress Mahal, one hot summer day,In a cool arbor far from courtly ...
Dear Canada, our native land, Our love for thee grows day by day;Our fathers left the olden strand, O'er sea and rapids ...
Beneath the surface of a shallow lake, Where grasses rank and mammoth rushes grow,And playful fish their bright fins nimbly shake, Or ...
Father of Universal Man, Where'er in this wide world he roam,Not known to thee by kith or clan, Nor height, nor breadth ...
A Prize Birthday Poem, 1885.We do not sing of vast domain-- Empires as vast as ours are seen,And o'er their millions ...
In the courts of truth tread softly, Though your tread be firm and bold;Your steps may awaken echoes, Resounding through years untold.The ...
True laureate of the Anglo-Saxon race, Whose words have won the hearts of young and old;So free from cant, and yet ...
When presses hard my load of care, And other friends from me depart,I want a friend my grief to share, With faithful ...
This world is but the shadow Of the world that is to be,A ripple on the surface Of a deep, unfathomed sea.God's ...
'Tis well to have a goal in mind, A life-aim, high and true;Clear as the day, and well defined, And ever kept ...
The words we speak on the empty air,Are never lost, but recorded there;The process we may not comprehend,Nor how the ...
Buttercups and daisies growing everywhere,In the field of clover, on the hillside fair,And in lovely valley, tilled with greatest care.Naught ...
O harass not a driven leaf, Nor stubble dry in wrath pursue;A life so brief load not with grief, Nor with thine ...
Doomed to decay are all things here; Whate'er their form or worth,Color and beauty disappear, Or turn to mother earth.The luscious fruits ...
I saw her first when she was old, Her form devoid of grace;Her locks that once were yellow gold Were white, and ...
Thy plan is best, though it may not agree With my conceptions of my needs and rights, And faith may fail to ...
Somewhere in the realms supernal Is a home prepared for me,Where my joys shall be eternal, And my spirit ever free; Mortal vision ...
Every flower that decks the way,Whether it be dun or gay,Fills a place in God's great plan,Serving Him, while pleasing ...
O Thou Eternal One, look down Upon an erring child of earth;Thy handiwork with knowledge crown, Or life will seem of little ...
My pansy pets are sleeping well Beneath their quilt of snow;How they can breathe I cannot tell, Nor how their rootlets grow;But ...
Those men are deemed heroes who rush on the foeRegardless of danger, and seek not to know What others may do;Stern ...
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