Shrine Of The Virgin – Part II (John Kenyon Poems)
She cometh to the seaward shrine, A mother, with her children three; And they have made the holy sign, And they have dropped ...
She cometh to the seaward shrine, A mother, with her children three; And they have made the holy sign, And they have dropped ...
What is the grandest thoughtToward which the soul has wrought?Has it the epic form,And the power of a storm?Comes it ...
Praisest Law, friend? We, too, love it much as they that love it best;'Tis the deep, august foundation, whereon Peace ...
ONCE, more, dear friends, you meet beneathA clouded sky:Not yet the sword has found its sheath,And on the sweet spring ...
Ho! children of the granite hillsThat bristle with the hackmatack,And sparkle with the crystal rillsThat hurry toward the Merrimack,Dam up ...
Here stands the great tree still, with broad bent head;Its wide arms grown aweary, yet outspreadWith their old blessing. But ...
PLACE--Scotland. TIME--Thirteenth Century.OFF! off! no treacherous priest for me!What's Heaven? what's Hell? Eternity!It hath no meaning to mine ear.Unless--Stay, father! ...
One who rejoiced that many served the Lord,Beheld, amongst the simple and the grand,In homes and churches, schools, and bed-filled ...
Written For Mr. Bryant's Seventieth BirthdayOur ship lay tumbling in an angry sea, Her rudder gone, her mainmast o'er the side;Her ...
Shroud the banner! rear the cross! Consecrate a nation's loss; Gaze on that majestic sleep; Stand beside the bier to weep; Lay the gentle ...
O power invincible of faith and love,Like angel rising to his home above,Thy heaven-lit features beam, calm, earnest grace,Firm truth, ...
Love is a sort of cannibal And lives upon its kind, It dares all dangers, fears no foes And to the world is ...
Foundation of the IslandIAn illustrious Baron without heraldry, without perception and famemakes only his destiny:to love, to honour his lady,day and ...
Perspective never withers from their eyes;They keep that docile edict of the SpringThat blends March with August Antarctic skies:These are ...
We were not by when Jesus came, But round us, far and near, We see His trophies, and His name In choral echoes ...
Lo! a form divinely brightDescends, and bursts upon my sight;A seraph of illustrious birth!(Religion was her name on earth);Supremely sweet ...
HERE, pent about by office walls And barren eyes all day,'Tis sweet to think of waterfalls Two hundred miles away!I would not ...
I.THROUGH the streets of MarbleheadFast the red-winged terror sped;Blasting, withering, on it came,With its hundred tongues of flame,Where St. Michael's ...
SCENE, a Valley near Bagdat TIME, the Morning`Ye Persian maids, attend your poet's lays,And hear how shepherds pass their golden ...
A Prize PoemThe star of Bethlehem rose, and truth and lightBurst on the nations that reposed in night,And chased the ...
There are times when the fate of nations May hang on a moment's call; When spheres in their mute rotations May swing on ...
There is no nobler labour for mankindThan to instruct and elevate the mind,To pour into the eager ears of youthThe ...
YES, love, the Spring shall come again, But not as once it came: Once more in meadow and in lane ...
When writing to you, friend, a subject I'd findIn which there's both pleasure and profit combined,And though what I've chosen ...
"ISLAND of Destiny! Innisfail!" they cried, when their weary eyesFirst looked on thy beauteous bosom from the amorous, ocean rise."Island ...
But, now again to weave the tale begun,All nature, then, as self-sustained, consistsOf twain of things: of bodies and of ...
July the first, in Ennis town,There was a glorious battle,Though not a man did there go down,Nor ...
Fair Hamiltonia! when a happy childI roamed thy charming precincts free and wild.Led by a father's hand, beyond thy boundsI ...
I remember once, when a careless child, I played on the mossy lea; The stars looked forth in the shadowy west, And I ...
Good Dan and Jane were man and wife,And lived a loving kind of life.One point, however, they disputedAnd each by ...
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