Mistress Hale Of Beverly (Lucy Larcom Poems)
The roadside forests here and there were touched with tawny gold;The days were shortening, and at dusk the sea looked ...
The roadside forests here and there were touched with tawny gold;The days were shortening, and at dusk the sea looked ...
O LIFE, that breathest in all sweet thingsThat bud and bloom upon the earth,That fillest the sky with songs and ...
No! is my answer from this cold bleak ridgeDown to your valley: you may rest you there:The gulf is wide, ...
I do not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine,-The orchard and the mowing-fields, The lawns and gardens ...
GLORY to Thee, Father of all the Immortal,Ever belongs:We bring Thee from our watch by the grave's portalNothing but songs.Though ...
OUR way stir is onward; the world is yet youngWith a beauty that never was dreamed of, or sung:Her wonders ...
THE grace of the bending grasses,The flush of the dawn-lit sky,The scent that lingers and passesWhen the loitering wind goes ...
ARE we daily drawing nearerThee, the Perfect, the Unseen?Grows the pathway ever clearer,Stretching sense and God between?Thine own messengers beside ...
LORD, open the door, for I falter,I faint in this stifled air;In dust and straitness I lose my breath;This life ...
Soul of our souls, only by TheeThe way we seeThrough earth's entangling mystery;We nothing know;But prayer unbars heaven's gate, and ...
O SCOFFER! He who from the crossLooked down thy dark abysm of loss,And knew His pain alone could winSuch souls ...
FOR the wealth of pathless forests,Whereon no axe may fall;For the winds that haunt the branches;The young bird's timid call;For ...
BECAUSE it cometh up, a heavenly flower,Out of the earth, divinely sown therein,To gather grace from shadow and from shower,And ...
ONE year among the angels, beloved, thou hast been;One year has heaven's white portal shut back the sound of sin:And ...
THE seas of thought are deep and wide;Let those who will, O friend of mine,Sail forth without a chart or ...
Tolling, tolling, tolling! All the bells of the land! Lo, the patriot martyr Taketh his journey grand! Travels into the ages, Bearing a hope how ...
GOD never meant us to be separatedFrom one another, in our work and thought;Spirits that share His Spirit He has ...
DawnO GOD, Thy world is sweet with prayer;The breath of Christ is in the air;We rise on Thy free Spirit's ...
SIT not blindfold, Soul, and sighFor the immortal By-and-by!Dreamer, seek not heaven afarOn the shores of some strange star!This a ...
Dear World, looking down from the highest of heights that my feet can attain,I see not the smoke of your ...
"For unto us a Child is born."NOT, Mary, unto thee alone,Though blessed among women thou:Not thine, nor yet thy nation's ...
THE quiet of a shadow-haunted pool,Where light breaks through in glorious tenderness;Where the tranced pilgrim in the shelter coolForgets the ...
IT is His birthday - His, the Holy Child!And innocent childhood blossoms now anew,Under the dropping of celestial dewInto its ...
HAND in hand with angels,Through the world we go;Brighter eyes are on usThan we blind ones know;Tenderer voices cheer usThan ...
OH, the beauty and the joy of livingAs the children of our Father, God!All we have and hope for gladly ...
INTO the heaven of Thy heart, O God,I lift up my life, like a flower;Thy light is deep, and Thy ...
WHEN for me the silent oarParts the Silent River,And I stand upon the shoreOf the strange Forever,Shall I miss the ...
I THANK Thee, Lord, for precious thingsWhich Thou into my life hast brought;More gratefully my spirit singsIts thanks for all ...
A WHITE stone glimmers through the firs,The dry grass on her grave-mound stirs;The sunshine scarcely warms the skies;Pale cloudlets fleck ...
How satisfying is a perfect word!How great, to know the truth, and utter itSo that it shall eternally be heard,And ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories