St. Barnabas (John Keble Poems)
The world's a room of sickness, where each heart Knows its own anguish and unrest; The truest wisdom there, and noblest art, Is ...
The world's a room of sickness, where each heart Knows its own anguish and unrest; The truest wisdom there, and noblest art, Is ...
It was not then a poet's dream, An idle vaunt of song,Such as beneath the moon's soft gleam On vacant fancies throng;Which ...
"Prince Jesus, crush those bastards . . ."-Fran(Larry Levis)
I. My food is but spare, And humble my cot, Yet Jesus dwells there And blesses my lot: Though thinly I'm clad, And tempests oft roll, He's ...
Written For Mr. Bryant's Seventieth BirthdayOur ship lay tumbling in an angry sea, Her rudder gone, her mainmast o'er the side;Her ...
O power invincible of faith and love,Like angel rising to his home above,Thy heaven-lit features beam, calm, earnest grace,Firm truth, ...
We were not by when Jesus came, But round us, far and near, We see His trophies, and His name In choral echoes ...
SCARCE had the solemn Sabbath-bellCeased quivering in the steeple,Scarce had the parson to his deskWalked stately through his people,When down ...
Ye stars that round the Sun of righteousness In glorious order roll,With harps for ever strung, ready to bless God for each ...
The mid-day sun, with fiercest glare,Broods o'er the hazy twinkling air: Along the level sandThe palm-tree's shade unwavering lies,Just as thy ...
Two clouds before the summer gale In equal race fleet o'er the sky:Two flowers, when wintry blasts assail, Together pins, together die.But ...
Beauty and splendor were on every hand:Yet strangely crawled dark shadows down the lanes,Twisting across the fields, like dragon-shapesThat smote ...
LET all thy words a Christian import bear,Let them, with grace, at all times season'd be,That they may knowledge give ...
When writing to you, friend, a subject I'd findIn which there's both pleasure and profit combined,And though what I've chosen ...
On Sinai's top, in prayer and trance, Full forty nights and forty daysThe Prophet watched for one dear glance Of thee and ...
Five hundred years have nearly passed away Since that glad morn, when o'er fair Bethl'hem's plainA light resplendent as the glow ...
Years fifty, and seven to boot, have smitten the children of menSince sound of a voice or a foot came ...
On, on to the darkest continent,As the Adriatic sailed,In Eighteen Hundred and ...
O Thou, that keepest hell's abyss close-barr'd,And o'er its gates hast set a constant guard,That Satan hast enchain'd, and death ...
I stood before a chain of beautiful mountains forming a semicircle. Ayoung, green forest covered them from summit to base.Limpidly ...
"Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother."O wondrous mother! since the dawn of timeWas ever love, was ...
IN Westminster's royal halls,Robed in their pontificals,England's ancient prelates stoodFor the people's right and good.Closed around the waiting crowd,Dark and ...
When the reaper's task was ended, and the summer wearing late,Parson Avery sailed from Newbury, with his wife and children ...
Of Brutus' blood, in Brittaine borne,King Arthur I am to name;Through Christendome and HeathynesseWell knowne is my worthy fame.In Jesus ...
The battle-cry is sounding loud, a bugle calls to arm,The hills and dales are clouded o'er, troops gather in alarm;With ...
It's fifty towmonds since, an' mair, Wi' lichtsome fit an' richt guid-wull,Ae simmer day I teuk the gate Oot ower the muirs ...
When they thought that Denmark's kingSoundly in the graveyard slumbered,Words incredible, unnumbered,Through the land crept whispering.Rumor said: "The king hunts ...
Twice in her season of decayThe fallen Church hath felt Elijah's eye Dart from the wild its piercing ray:Not keener burns, ...
The clouds that wrap the setting sun When Autumn's softest gleams are ending,Where all bright hues together run In sweet confusion blending: ...
Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved, Watch by Thine own forgiven friend;In sharpest perils faithful proved, Let his soul love Thee to ...
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