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 ...
Father of Universal Man, Where'er in this wide world he roam,Not known to thee by kith or clan, Nor height, nor breadth ...
Some men there are who stand so straight,So equipoised, that others' fateSeems to depend on their behest;And useless all our ...
I know in part, but know not all, The part I know is known;What know I not I hope with Paul To ...
As the caged eagle neared the mountain range, O'er which he oft had soared on pinions strong,He clapped his wings, moved ...
O Thou, who art the source of joy and light, The great Revealer of the will Divine;Thyself Divine, all nature owns ...
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 ...
The waters of the Big Bear creek Glide slowly on their way;The western lakes they surely seek, Which they will reach some ...
Remembrance of the past will joy impart If in that past the conscience was supreme;But if the soul be made an ...
The words we speak on the empty air,Are never lost, but recorded there;The process we may not comprehend,Nor how the ...
Upon the "table-rock" I stand, And gaze into the depths profound,In Ecstasy at sights so grand, And deafened by the soundOf rushing ...
Is brotherhood to flesh confined? Is there no kinship of the soul?To have it thus, I am resigned, If 'tis my God-appointed ...
The gem is not this ode itself;Hardly can it aspire so high.Earth has its gems; but all its wealth,Increased by ...
"Paint Me As I Am, Warts And All"--Cromwell.Brave soul, 'twere well if all the same would say,And artists aim their ...
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