A Comfortable Conference Between A Pious Sick Man And His Soul, Against The Fear Of Death (Rees Prichard Poems)
My coward soul, why dost thou dreadTo thy Redeemer Christ to go,Who his heart's blood so freely shed,To save thee ...
Jesus Christ Poems (4880 Poems)
To The Christian Reader (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
Reader, I am a fool;And have adventuredTo play the fool this once for Christ,The more his fame to spread.If this ...
The Catechism (Rees Prichard Poems)
Q. MY lively, lovely, little child! declare, What is thy Christian name? and then in brief, With serious heart, and an assured ...
Norembega (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE winding way the serpent takesThe mystic water took,From where, to count its beaded lakes,The forest sped its brook.A narrow ...
Concerning Purgatory (Rees Prichard Poems)
There's nought in nature that can purge a soul,But the Lamb's blood, which for our sins was slain;It cleanses ev'ry ...
Part Of The Sixty-Ninth Psalm (Rees Prichard Poems)
Preserve, O Lord! my precious soulFrom the deep floods that o'er me roll,And hourly compass me around,That I'm in dread ...
Extreme Unction (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Go! leave me, Priest; my soul would be Alone with the consoler, Death;Far sadder eyes than thine will see This crumbling clay ...
Sunday Next Before Advent (John Keble Poems)
Will God indeed with fragments bear, Snatched late from the decaying year? Or can the Saviour's blood endear The dregs of a polluted ...
Ministering Women (Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass Poems)
Those women who their Christ and Lord Aided by gentle ministry, Have gained their race a rich reward, Treasured in sacred history. Joanna is ...
A Letter (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
After W. M. P.Dear Kitty,At length the term's ending;I 'm in for my Schools in a week;And the time that ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 03 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XXIIt was amazement, wonder and delight,Although not love, that moved his cruel sense;'Tell on,' quoth he, 'unfold the chance aright,Thy ...
Gone Forward (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
YES, "Let the tent be struck": victorious morning Through every crevice flashes in a day Magnificent beyond all earth's adorning: The night is ...
The Drummer’s Death-Roll (John Critchley Prince Poems)
To a region of song and of sunnier day,The battle-host wended its wearisome way,Through the terrible Splugen's tenebrious gloom,That seemed ...
Albert Sidney Johnston (Kate Brownlee Sherwood Poems)
I hear again the tread of war go thundering through the land,And Puritan and Cavalier are clinching neck and hand,Round ...
The Dole Of Jarl Thorkell (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE land was pale with famineAnd racked with fever-pain;The frozen fiords were fishless,The earth withheld her grain.Men saw the boding ...
Heroes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Children, when you sat wishing,Down last night on the sands,Beckoning moments of glory,With little helpless hands,I heard you saying and ...
The Captains (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
The Pastor’s Complaint (Rees Prichard Poems)
What sorrows in my soul, O God! arise,The vast perverseness of mankind to see?Shou'd any strive to lead them to ...
The Diary of Ana (Ana Poems)
'Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
Linkum (James Edwin Campbell Poems)
You axin' sah 'bout Linkum — w'y sho'ly youse been tol''Bout my po' chil — Gawd bless him — he ...
Concerning Perseverance In A State Of Grace (Rees Prichard Poems)
No one e'er his Maker's matchless might withstood,He's ever stedfast, and supremely good,He will fulfil, whate'er he did propose,And none, ...
The Face Of Qana (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
The face of QanaPale, like that of Jesusand the sea breeze of April…Rains of blood.. and tears..2They entered Qana stepping ...
By The Grave Of Henry Timrod (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN last we parted--thy frail hand in mine--Above us smiled September's passionless sky,And touched by fragrant airs, the hillside pineThrilled ...
King Raedwald (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
Will you hear now the speech of King Raedwald,—heathen Raedwald, the simple yet wise?He, the ruler of North-folk and South-folk, a ...
The Heart Of God (Lucy Larcom Poems)
O LIFE, that breathest in all sweet thingsThat bud and bloom upon the earth,That fillest the sky with songs and ...
Scum O’ The Earth (Robert Haven Schauffler Poems)
IAt the gate of the West I stand,On the isle where the nations throng.We call them "scum o' the earth";Stay, ...
Fourth Sunday After Easter (John Keble Poems)
My Saviour, can it ever beThat I should gain by losing Thee?The watchful mother tarries nigh,Though sleep have closed her ...
Baby Bell (Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poems)
IHave you not heard the poets tellHow came the dainty Baby BellInto this world of ours?The gates of heaven were ...
How Gods Iustice And Mercy Ioyne Both Together In Mankinds Restoration. (Henry Arthington Poems)
Almighty God, beholding Man,Depryued of his blessednesse,)To looke with visage pale and wan,(By reason of his wretchednesse.)And knowing him in ...
Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity (John Keble Poems)
Stately thy walls, and holy are the prayers Which day and night before thine altars rise:Not statelier, towering o'er her marble ...