The Widow of Nain (George MacDonald Poems)
Forth from the city, with the loadThat makes the trampling low,They walk along the dreary roadThat dust and ashes go.The ...
Forth from the city, with the loadThat makes the trampling low,They walk along the dreary roadThat dust and ashes go.The ...
O thou, who with the world had'st birth,Who rul'st despotic o'er the earth,To whom its life each creature yields;Man, bird, ...
This is the story of Moses, The earliest scribe that we keep: Void was the earth and ...
Men of the honest heart, Men of the stalwart hand,Men, willing to obey, Thence able to command:Men of ...
It was on one Monday morning just about one o'clock When that great Titanic began to reel and rock; People ...
Three words will I name thee—around and about, From the lip to the lip, full of meaning, they flee;But they ...
WHAT shall we ask? A Father hears,Who weighs our blessings, counts our tears,And when for bread we pray,We leave it ...
My race of life is almost run, Rings even now the last sad knell,When I must from this whole world ...
By the fond Counsel of my Friends misled I banish'd Love out of my Breast; Now surely I shall be ...
'Twas evening, and the wintry white Glistened beneath the star-lit sky — Forth marched the British cohorts right Through Boston's ...
WHAT teacher of Israel shuns the broad light,The first feeble dawnings of faith to conceal,And, fearful of men, seeks the ...
When that I poore soule was borne,I was borne unfortunate:Presently the Fates had sworne,To fore-tell my haplesse state.Titan his faire ...
Sinners, obey the gospel-word!Haste to the supper of my Lord!Be wise to know your gracious day;All things are ready, come ...
You would be wise, I'll teach you if you please,Withdraw you mind from such wild thoughts as theseIf I my ...
Come not in terrors clad, to claim An unresisting prey:Come like an evening shadow, Death! So stealthily, so silently!And ...
QUEEN of the blest Angelic Choir!Bright native of the spheres!Whose pow'rs all Nature's works inspire,Whose notes, entranc'd, she hears,'Tis thou ...
NOW thickening darkness spreads her solemn shade,What awful sounds the startled ear invade,Awake the hallow'd silence of the night,And strike ...
Rise, mighty nation, in thy strength,And deal thy dreadful vengeance round;Let thy great spirit, roused at length,Strike hordes of despots ...
Each man is like a noble steed;When he's a colt I take him; I lock him up and watch his ...
DID you ever meet a brother as you hurried on your way And invite him up to dinner, and his ...
I hold him great who, for Love's sake, Can give with generous, earnest will; Yet ...
Ho! every one that thirsts, draw nigh!('Tis God invites the fallen race)Mercy and free salvation buy;Buy wine, and milk, and ...
Rugged men and tough men these, Men of the lonely ways,Hard and sturdy as their trees Where the timbered ranges ...
Creator of the earth and sky,Ruling the firmament on high,Clothing the day with robes of light,Blessing with gracious sleep the ...
O'ER the vast deep, what storms arise,And mighty billows bound,In seeming contest with the skies,Destruction dealing round!Yet mightier He who ...
Stupendous love of God most high!He comes to meet us from the skyIn mildest majesty;Full of unutterable grace,He calls the ...
This is the song for a soldierTo sing as he rides from homeTo the fields afar where the battles areOr ...
THEY have toiled all the night, the long weary night, They have toiled all the night, Lord, and taken nothing:-- ...
WHEN Heav'n the soul requires, not florid youth,Nor Nature's gilts, by Art improv'd, can save;Yon awful knell proclaims the solemn ...
THIS is the day of our glory; this is our day to weep. Under her dusty laurels England stirs in ...
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