The Two Debtors (John Newton Poems)
Once a woman silent stoodWhile Jesus sat at meat;From her eyes she poured a floodTo wash his sacred feetShame and ...
Jesus Christ Poems (4880 Poems)
To My Friend Mr. J. Ellis (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
To thee, the guardian of my youthful days,Fain would I pay some tribute of respect;And though it falls far short ...
Christmas Eve. South, 1865 (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
Poverty, remorseless spectre,Reigns throughout our once fair land,And he wields no fancy sceptre,In his iron-covered hand.Stifled sighs our hearts are ...
Hebrews XII. 2. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our Faith.WHEREFORE droops thy trembling soul?Wherefore saddened is thy brow?Clouds around thy ...
What Is Prayer? (James Montgomery Poems)
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,Unuttered or expressed;The motion of a hidden fire,That trembles in the breast.Prayer is the burden ...
William Francis Bartlett (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Oh, well may Essex sit forlornBeside her sea-blown shore;Her well beloved, her noblest born,Is hers in life no more!No lapse ...
Hymn IX: Sinners, Obey the Gospel-Word! (John Wesley Poems)
Sinners, obey the gospel-word!Haste to the supper of my Lord!Be wise to know your gracious day;All things are ready, come ...
Elegiac Verses (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Inscribed, and Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. Dr. John Campbell, of London, who died March 26, 1867.Oh, faithful ...
This Is My Father’s World (Maltbie Davenport Babcock Poems)
This is my Father's world, and to my listening earsAll nature sings, and round me rings the music of the ...
Amici Tres (James Edwin Campbell Poems)
Some friends I had, they numbered three —Tom, Lee and Ben; staunch friends were we.O, life was sweet and life ...
The Disciples At Sea (John Newton Poems)
Constrained by their Lord to embark,And venture, without him, to sea;The season tempestuous and dark,How grieved the disciples must be!But ...
Official Piety (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A PIOUS magistrate! sound his praise throughoutThe wondering churches. Who shall henceforth doubtThat the long-wished millennium draweth nigh?Sin in high ...
The Ministering Soul (Mary Alice Walton Poems)
On Canaan's fairest borders, in thought, I seemed to stand,I'd left my broken palace for this long-wished-for land.On earth for ...
Isabel (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Fare-thee-well: On my soul the toll of bellTrembles. Thou art calmly sleepingWhile my weary heart is weeping: I cannot listen to thy ...
Carrickfergus (Louis MacNeice Poems)
I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantriesTo the hooting of lost sirens and the clang of ...
The Lord And The Children (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
From peaceful Galilee, its grassy plainsAnd vine-clothed slopes and olive-planted hills,From thriving towns and Galilee's blue sea,The Saviour journeyed to ...
What Think Ye Of Christ? (John Newton Poems)
What think you of Christ? is the testTo try both your state and your scheme;You cannot be right in the ...
Deacon Normand Smith, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, May 22d, 1860, aged 87.One saintly man the less, to teach us howWisely to live,--one blest example ...
The Battle Hymn Of Africa (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
Africa's sun is shining above the horizon clear,The day for us is rising, for black men far and near;Our God ...
What Lasts? (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
The words we speak on the empty air,Are never lost, but recorded there;The process we may not comprehend,Nor how the ...
Daily, Daily, Sing The Praises (Sabine Baring-Gould Poems)
Daily, daily, sing the praisesOf the city God hath made;In the beauteous fields of EdenIts foundation stones are laid.RefrainO that ...
The Mouth of Fools Doth God Confess (Martin Luther Poems)
The mouth of fools doth God confess,But while their lips draw nigh Him,Their heart is full of wickedness,And all their ...
The Iron Cross (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
THEY pass, with heavy eyes and hair,Before the Christ upon the Cross,The Nations, stricken with their loss,And lifting faces of ...
Saul’s Armor (John Newton Poems)
When first my soul enlistedMy Saviour's foes to fight;Mistaken friends insistedI was not armed aright:So Saul advised DavidHe certainly would ...
Lines Addressed To The Rev. J. James (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Zion's King hath called thee—go! 'Tis His sovereign pleasure,Honour on thee to bestow, And charge of gospel treasure.He who winneth souls is ...
Hell’s Back Door (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
The way we flitter through our span,And break the laws of loveliness,Does show an open Hell for manOn earth, with ...
Till The Mist Passes (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
TILL the mist passes, and ye can descryWhy hearts for ages loved the love-shed bloodOf a pure Christ, and praised ...
The Complaint and the Consolation. (Mather Byles Poems)
I.Where shall I find my Lord, my Love,The Sov'reign of my Soul?Pensive from East to West I rove,And range from ...
Glimpses (Lucy Larcom Poems)
LIFE comes to us only by glimpses;We see it not yet as a whole,For the vapor, the cloud, and the ...
The Ballad Of The Hanged Men (Fran Poems)
Men my brothers who after us live,have your hearts against us not hardened.For—if of poor us you take pity,God of ...