Poems of Religious Sorrow, Comfort, Counsel and AspirationSheldon, 1863 - 204 páginas |
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... eye reflects my sins on me , And shows me all within me lurking . Mid bounding joy , and passion's glow , Mid sportive bursts of mutual gladness , Thin shades arise from far below , Where boils a secret gulf of madness . A quivering ...
... eye reflects my sins on me , And shows me all within me lurking . Mid bounding joy , and passion's glow , Mid sportive bursts of mutual gladness , Thin shades arise from far below , Where boils a secret gulf of madness . A quivering ...
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... eyes Creation's face a pall of horror wear , Good cheer ! good cheer ! The gloom of midnight flies ; Then shall a sunrise follow , mild and fair . - Through storm to calm ! And though his thunder - car The rumbling tempest drive through ...
... eyes Creation's face a pall of horror wear , Good cheer ! good cheer ! The gloom of midnight flies ; Then shall a sunrise follow , mild and fair . - Through storm to calm ! And though his thunder - car The rumbling tempest drive through ...
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A WORLD WITHOUT GOD . ' ER throngs of men around I cast mine eyes , While each to separate work his hand applies ; The mean who toil for food , the proud for fame , And crowds by custom led , with scarce an aim . Here busy dwarfs ...
A WORLD WITHOUT GOD . ' ER throngs of men around I cast mine eyes , While each to separate work his hand applies ; The mean who toil for food , the proud for fame , And crowds by custom led , with scarce an aim . Here busy dwarfs ...
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... eyes , Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies , Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer , Who trusted God was love indeed , And love Creation's final law- Though Nature , red in tooth and claw With ravine , shrieked against his creed ...
... eyes , Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies , Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer , Who trusted God was love indeed , And love Creation's final law- Though Nature , red in tooth and claw With ravine , shrieked against his creed ...
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... eyes discern ; TEACHES MORE THAN CAN , DOCTRINE AND NO PURE HOPE WILL VAINLY YEARN . But all from depths of mystery grows Which hide from us the root of things ; And good beyond what Science knows To man his Faith's high reason brings ...
... eyes discern ; TEACHES MORE THAN CAN , DOCTRINE AND NO PURE HOPE WILL VAINLY YEARN . But all from depths of mystery grows Which hide from us the root of things ; And good beyond what Science knows To man his Faith's high reason brings ...
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a-wing abide Alpine Sheep angels beautiful Beautiful Day blessing blest bliss brave breath bright bring canst CARPE DIEM celestial cheer Christ cloud comfort dark days go dead dear Death divine divine eyes doth dream dull Task dust dwell earth einst Elizabeth Barrett Browning Evermore eyes fair faith fear filled flower Geber giveth His beloved glory God's gone grace grief happy hath heart heaven heavenly hero's heart hope judex Lacrimosa light Lord Love's Morning Hymn mortal mourning murmur Nature's night Nihil o'er Ode to Duty pain pangs patience peace Plato praise prayer pure quod rest Ring seems shadows shine sleep smile sorrow soul spirit stars strife strong sweet tears tender thee thine things thou dost thou hast thought toil trust truth unto VIA LUCIS voice Waits weary wild bells World's rude Buffetings Year's Eve youth
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Página 40 - So runs my dream : but what am I ? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Página 39 - OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 57 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear.
Página 183 - we sometimes say, But have no tune to charm away Sad dreams that through the eye-lids creep. But never doleful dream again Shall break the happy slumber when He giveth His beloved, sleep.
Página 51 - Night! when our first parent knew Thee, from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Página 200 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Página 123 - Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle ; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow.
Página 12 - Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round, Parents first season us ; then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes...
Página 178 - When the soft dews of kindly sleep My wearied eyelids gently steep, Be my last thought, how sweet to rest...
Página 69 - Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn, Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, 1 1 Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.