Poems of Religious Sorrow, Comfort, Counsel and AspirationHoughton, 1886 - 277 páginas |
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abide Andrew Rykman's Prayer angels anguish beneath bless thee bliss Border-Lands breath calm canopy of Love cheer child Christ Christian cloud comfort unto Confession unto Coventry Patmore curse days go dead dear death Dies Ira divine dost doth doubt dream dust E. B. Browning earth eternal eyes fair faith Father fear feet flowers Frances Anne Kemble FRANCIS JAMES CHILD gilt top God's grace grief hath hear heart heaven heavenly holy hope Hopes and Fears hour Hymn JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE light Lord love thee mind Ministry of Love Morgenlied morning mortal never night o'er pain patience unto Poems praise Pray Psalm rejoice Riverside Sarah Orne Jewett seas seek shadow shadows fall sleep smiles sorrow spirit strife sweet teach thee tears thine things thou art thou hast thought toil tread trust truth Valediction via Lucis voice weary Wilt thou
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Página 106 - Mysterious 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 25 - WILT thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before ? Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Página 198 - RING out wild bells to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Página 145 - I would not have the restless will That hurries to and fro, Seeking for some great thing to do, Or secret thing to know ; I would be treated as a child, And guided where I go.
Página 151 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Página 206 - Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes; shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies: Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee; in life, in death, O Lord, abide with me!
Página 10 - Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly long'd for death. ' Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant; More life, and fuller, that I want.
Página 17 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. 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 21 - Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Página 73 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.