Jubilate Agno (excerpt) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.For ...
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.For ...
When the stars from the skies have fallen And the smoke of the world's cleared away;When Saint Peter marks "30" in ...
In Virgil's Sacred Verse we find,That Passion can depress or raiseThe Heav'nly, as the Human Mind:Who dare deny what Virgil ...
[It is stated that a shepherd, who had for many years grazed his flocks ina district in which a rich ...
BEAMS of noon, like burning lances, through the tree-tops flash and glisten,As she stands before her lover, with raised face ...
Leaving the sea, the pale moon lights the strand. Tracing old runes, a youth inscribes the sand. And by the rune-ring waits ...
They have brought the news, my darlin', that I've waited for so long.Faith, 'twas little news they brought me; every ...
Ah! linger yet - a God of love is breathingNew life and passion through the frozen earth,As once of old ...
I.THE suns of eighteen centuries have shoneSince the Redeemer walked with man, and madeThe fisher's boat, the cavern's floor of ...
E'en John the Baptist did not know Who Christ the Lord could be, And bade his own disciples go The strange event to ...
IN the hour of twilight shadowsThe Pilgrim sire looked out;He thought of the "bloudy Salvages"That lurked all round about,Of Wituwamet's ...
I made a journey o'er the sea,I bade my faithful dog good-bye,I knew that he would grieve for me,But did ...
Up to Dunbar our Cromwell went,Not to invade was his intent;But they who first King Charles soldNow turn their backs ...
ITHE LAST CUP OF CANARYSo, the powder's low, and the larder's clean, And surrender drapes, with its black impending,All the stage ...
DAUGHTER Of Crete, how one brief hour,E'en in thy young love's early morn,Sends storm and darkness o'er thy bower, -O ...
GOD-kindled soul, brave general of the hostMade strong by Christ! New Judas Maccabeus,Chief conqueror, giving courage for the fight,Victorious alike ...
Why do I sigh to find Life's evening shadows gathering round my way? The keen eye dimming, and the buoyant mind Unhinging day ...
Fire away, fire away, boys must have their play,There'll be hard work yetBefore sunset:But what of the day when the ...
Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in ...
"Oh, no, my lord, she cannot stay; Cast out this bond maid with her mocking child, For they cannot be heirs with ...
Here's a vestibule. On holidaysOvercome by slavish fear,The whole population, in a state of awe,Rushes to the sacred doors.Having left ...
'Tis a queer, old battered landmark that belongs to other years;With the dog-leg fence around it, and its hat about ...
IBeyond the Northern Lights, in regions hauntedOf twilight, where the world is glacier planted,And pale as Loki in his cavern ...
Angels of Earth! they soothe and bless The troubled soul of man,Bestow the most of happiness, They can.Angels of Earth--they are but ...
UPON us falls the shadow of night, And darkened is our day!My Love will greet the morning light Four hundred miles away.God ...
DEEP under the spires of a hill, by the feet of the thunder-cloud trod,I pause in a luminous, still, magnificent ...
THOU, that dost guard thy people, and protect!Thou castle of defence, the weak to keep!For Jesu's sake, do not my ...
Winter's wild birthnight! In the fretful East The uneasy wind moans with its sense of cold, And sends its sighs through gloomy ...
Of their great names I may record but few; He who beholds the Ocean white with sails And copies each confuses all ...
TELL me, my soul, and in good earnest tell,Why dost thou seem afraid to Christ to go,With him and his ...
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