The Great Tribunal (John Newton Poems)
John in vision saw the dayWhen the Judge will hasten down;Heav'n and earth shall flee awayFrom the terror of his ...
John in vision saw the dayWhen the Judge will hasten down;Heav'n and earth shall flee awayFrom the terror of his ...
Once more I write a line to you, While darker shadows fall;Dear friends of mine who have been true, And steadfast through ...
HERE let Compassion bend her head,And tears of tender sorrow shed,And warm enthusiasm musing tread,To pour his sighs.Let gay Prosperity ...
ACT IV. SCENE 5.SONG OF THE FATES.The deities dread!The mastery hold theyIn hands all-eternal,And use them, unquestioned,What manner they like.Let ...
IAt length arrived, your book I takeTo read in for the author's sake;Too gray for new sensations grown,Can charm to ...
Whose brilliancy of talent, strength of mind,and undeviating regard to Truth at the ageof eight years, merit admiration and applause.1.IF ...
I would tell thee of Stella, how she made glad the hours,So oft calling mother with strewn wreaths and flowers,Blue ...
WE have quarreled; ugly things have been said,Bitter things, in a tone controlled, well-bred,Temperate; we weighed our words, lest the ...
TO MR. AND MRS. EVERARD,_On their only Son's being in the Navy_, 1811. --------Talent and beauty, and the heart's warm glow,Gilding ...
I caught this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him ...
...and guys I knew in the States, youngofficers, return from the front crying andtrembling. Gay chaps at the bar in LosAngeles, ...
I caught this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him ...
While his wife earned the living, Rabbi Henrystudied the Torah, writing commentariesmore likely to be burnt than printed.It was rumoured ...
A brainless beauty, a would-be coquette,A brow of marble, but a heart of jet;An eye that shows no vestige of ...
Ah, Passion, like a voice - that buds!With many thorns…that sharply stick:Recalls to me the longing of our bloods…And - ...
TO him who loves whate'er is good or great,In the lone Cottage, or the Courts of Kings,To view perspectively a ...
If we sang in the wood (and Death is a German expert)while snows flies, chill, after so frequent knewso many ...
When I remember plain heroic strengthAnd shining virtue shown by Ypres pools,Then read the blither written by knaves for foolsIn ...
THE latter rain, it falls in anxious hasteUpon the sun-dried fields and branches bare,Loosening with searching drops the rigid wasteAs ...
Sound clear, finely-chiseled sonnets,You, the children of quiet thoughts!True Freedom listens to the dictates:He submits the law, that you laws ...
There are, whose pearl of price is richly setIn mountings choice of intellectual gold,And polish'd high by graces manifold;Some such ...
THROUGH the fathomless peace of the starlight,Through the feverish travail of mind,Through the love of the live heart within me,I ...
We saw the mass grave at the Moscow Zoo.A sullen man dug up a human skullThen held it high for ...
Where silence broods on ruin, thou alone,Sweet oracle, in rippling numbers low,Dost onward through the waste of ages flow,As an ...
In long, slow silences of soulBeneath the sunset on the seaI think I hear the numbers rollThat tell my conquest ...
Written in her fifteenth year.His faults were great, his virtues less,His mind a burning lamp of Heaven;His talents were bestowed ...
See, I have bent thee by thy saffron hair --O most strange masker--Towards my face, thy face so full of eyes --O ...
'T is in the twinkle of escapeThat all our safety lies.Of danger—whatsoe'er the shape—The nearness naught implies:This side is life; ...
She,In the dark,Found lightBrighter than many ever see.She,Within herself,Found loveliness,Through the soul's own mastery.And now the world receivesFrom her dower:The ...
What -- write my name!How vain the feeble trust,To be rememberedWhen the hand is dust --Grieve rather that the talents ...
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