A Song Of Love (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
A song I sing a blessing so divine,Which all can feel yet no one can define;It comes like hallowed glory ...
A song I sing a blessing so divine,Which all can feel yet no one can define;It comes like hallowed glory ...
Ah, yes, the chapter ends to-day; We even lay the book away; But oh, how sweet the moments sped Before the final page ...
The point I advance, if it need confirmation, I'll prove by a witness that few will dispute, A pink of perfection and ...
(For the Benefit of Haile Selassie and Benito Mussolini.)The man who holds a slave and laughs at easeIs devil with ...
A song to the oak, the brave old oak,Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;Here's health and renown to his ...
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'n's joy,Sphere-born harmonious Sisters, Voice and Verse,Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employDead ...
WHAT bliss for her who lives her little day,In blest obedience, like to those divine,Who to her loved, her earthly ...
WRITTEN IN A CHILD'S ALBUM'Twas sung of old in hut and hallHow once a king in evil hourHung musing o'er ...
What dost thou here? A drop of strange cold light After thy airy flight Of many a thousand league of sky? Like glow--worm, or ...
If nothing else, may not this season move,Or time become the true chronicle of love?And so allay the fury, stint ...
Bless those little children That love to go to school;Blessed be the children That obey the golden rule.Children, love your parents, For they ...
The sun that sank just now beyond those calm watersShines not for me;The sun that will to-morrow gild yonder mountainI ...
TO SEE J----. H----. ESQ.'S CHILD.IS it true! does Alonzo from London proposeA visit to Scotia's bleak plain,Ere the beams ...
1. The modern wife leads a dreadful life,That seems the modern fashion.For wicked ways and cabarets,She seems to have a ...
All that pass by, To Jesus draw near,He utters a cry, Ye sinners, give ear!From hell to retrieve you He ...
Once I was unconfined and free,Would I had been so still!Enjoying sweetest liberty,And roving at my will.But now, not master ...
The earth, and all the earth contains, Are Thine, O Lord! Upon the seasThou reared'st the world, and it remains Subservient to ...
Wake my Soul, rise from this BedOf dull and sluggish earth:Quickly rise, lift up thy head,And see thy Lords new ...
The kine unguided wentBy the directest road;When the Philistines homeward sentThe ark of Israel's God.Lowing they passed along,And left their ...
In our own native land a Hospital stands, Its praises I faintly would speak;To me it seems grand, enclosed in love's ...
Lord, now the time returns,For weary man to rest;And lay aside those pains and caresWith which our day's opprest:Or rather ...
FESTIVAL OF THE ALUMNI, 1857THE noon of summer sheds its rayOn Harvard's holy ground;The Matron calls, the sons obey,And gather ...
Thrice lovely babe! thus hush'd to rest, Upon thy warrior father's breast! Avails it, that his eyes behold, Thy rosy cheeks, thy locks ...
Spirit Divine! Eternal! Holy Dove!These sacred fruits are thine,—peace, joy, and love,Even peace with heaven, and peace on earth; a ...
WIFE and servant are the same, But only differ in the name : For when that fatal knot is ty'd, Which nothing, nothing ...
Ah, silly Pug, wert thou so sore afraid?Mourn not, my Wat, nor be thou so dismayed.It passeth fickle Fortune's power ...
The thousand and one nightsOf insidious, snake-like delays...The thousand and one nightsOf prisons and fairy tales. -Talk, Scheherazade... The sultan ...
He who on earth as man was known,And bore our sins and pains;Now, seated on th' eternal throne,The God of ...
SONS of Discord! come not near, Peace and gentle Love are here; Each unhallow'd passion hence! Here Pleasure dwells with Innocence. Beauteous pair! may ...
Why beats my Heart when Flora's nigh,As it would from my Bosom fly?Whence does this melting Softness rise,When her my ...
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