Dedicated To Dr. W. H. Sheppard (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
On, on to the darkest continent,As the Adriatic sailed,In Eighteen Hundred and ...
On, on to the darkest continent,As the Adriatic sailed,In Eighteen Hundred and ...
Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones,Once lived a Saint, known as the second Buddha;His fame was heard ...
The rage for writing has spread far and wide,Letters on letters now are multiplied,And every mortal, who can hold a ...
I.FALLEN with autumn's falling leafEre yet his summer's noon was past,Our friend, our guide, our trusted chief,--What words can match ...
ON a rocky peak once sat I early,Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving;Stretch'd out like a pall of greyish ...
Sunny summer day it was when loping in to Laramie,I overtook the Walking Man, reined up and nodded "How!!"He'd been ...
In the minister's morning sermonHe had told of the primal fall,And how thenceforth the wrath of GodRested on each and ...
With fifty years between you and your well-kept wedding vow,The Golden Age, old friends of mine, is not a fable ...
Say, ye celestial guards, who waitIn Bethlehem, round the Saviour's palace gate, Say, who are these on golden wings,That hover o'er ...
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,One who dwelleth by the Castle Rhine,When he called the flowers, so blue ...
How many of my selves are dead? The ghosts of many haunt me: Lo,The baby in the tiny bedWith rockers on, ...
'Suppose that, to give a few lectures,daily you had to commutebetween Heaven and Hell:what would you take with you?''A book, ...
Thus have I pictured her:—In Arden oldA white-browed maiden with a falcon eye,Rose-flushed of face, with locks of wind-blown gold,Teaching ...
The afternoon had a flu-like quality, gray and threatening to burst into tears at any moment, but I held it ...
He stands at the door of the church peeping in,No troublesome beadle is near him;The preacher is talking of sinners ...
Why thus longing, thus forever sighing For the far off, unattained, and dim, While the beautiful, all round thee lying, Offers up its ...
Francis D' Assisi, gentlest Saint of Saint's,Within his garden where the roses grewThat knew no thorn, slept from a wearinessOf ...
Alone, and unwitting, we spring into birthTo battle the battle of life upon earth;Alone, and unwilling, we drop from the ...
A Christian, in so catholic a sense,Can give to none, but partial minds offence;Forc'd to live under some divided part,He ...
To Jordan came our Lord the Christ,To do God's pleasure willing,And there was by Saint John baptized,All righteousness fulfilling;There did ...
It was Thomas O'Daly that roused up young people and scattered them,and since death played on him, may God give ...
Calling a world to arms—I hear from farThe pealing clangours of the trump of war;The horizon political flames forthHer angry ...
Obeisance to the perfect Marpa.I am the Yogi who perceives the Ultimate Truth.In the Origin of the Unborn, I first ...
Midnight's solemn peal had rung;My drowsy spirit listless hungBetween the certain and unreal,When visioned forms and shapes idealCome floating from ...
Grey-cowled monk, whose faith so earnest Guides these Indians' childlike hearts,As their hands to toil thou turnest, Teaching them the Builder's arts,Speak ...
In memory of sister, Mattie Monson. Mother is dead, those dear hands are folded;Hands that have labored from morn- ing till late.Jesus has ...
A Singer stands in festive attire,Clasps to his bosom warm a lyre,And plucks the strings, enraptured."How play you my tunes, ...
A faithful Teacher of the young from early years, and recently thePrincipal of a Female Seminary and Boarding School at ...
Oh! who shall dare in this frail sceneOn holiest happiest thoughts to lean, On Friendship, Kindred, or on Love?Since not Apostles' ...
Here, O my Lord, I see Thee face to face;Here would I touch and handle things unseen;Here grasp with firmer ...
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