The Gem book of poesie, by the author of 'The ancient poets and poetry of England'.1846 - 160 pages |
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... face - divine ; We see Thee - endless fount of days : We see Thee , who our frames hast brought , With one swift word , from senseless clay- Waked - with one glance of heavenly ray , Our never - dying souls from nought . Those souls ...
... face - divine ; We see Thee - endless fount of days : We see Thee , who our frames hast brought , With one swift word , from senseless clay- Waked - with one glance of heavenly ray , Our never - dying souls from nought . Those souls ...
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... face , And when in sins and sorrow sunk , Revived my soul with grace . Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss Has made my cup run o'er ; And in a kind and faithful friend , Has doubled all my store . Ten thousand thousand precious gifts ...
... face , And when in sins and sorrow sunk , Revived my soul with grace . Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss Has made my cup run o'er ; And in a kind and faithful friend , Has doubled all my store . Ten thousand thousand precious gifts ...
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... face , Rejoicing once more to receive his embrace ; He looks at her tresses , the clouds in their gloom , And they blush in his gaze like young roses in bloom ; The mists are resolved into jewels and gems , And on the green sward throw ...
... face , Rejoicing once more to receive his embrace ; He looks at her tresses , the clouds in their gloom , And they blush in his gaze like young roses in bloom ; The mists are resolved into jewels and gems , And on the green sward throw ...
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... face to face . W. MARTIN . PRAYER FOR THE SPIRIT . GOD of our hope , whose changeless love Like light and warmth is shed below , Send down thy Spirit from above To cheer us in our earthly woe . From sin's deep , darksome , deathlike ...
... face to face . W. MARTIN . PRAYER FOR THE SPIRIT . GOD of our hope , whose changeless love Like light and warmth is shed below , Send down thy Spirit from above To cheer us in our earthly woe . From sin's deep , darksome , deathlike ...
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... face at early dawn , * When clouds and darkness veil the sky , Upon the rising mists of morn Confess our errors in a sigh , And the first beam that shines above Shall glow with thy forgiving love . Then will the clouds that linger oft ...
... face at early dawn , * When clouds and darkness veil the sky , Upon the rising mists of morn Confess our errors in a sigh , And the first beam that shines above Shall glow with thy forgiving love . Then will the clouds that linger oft ...
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art thou BARRY CORNWALL beam beauty beneath bird blaze bless bliss bloom blossom bosom breast breath bright brow calm charm cheer clouds dark dear death deep delight divine dost doth dread earth ELIZA COOK eternal fade fair faith feel fire flowers gaze gloom glorious glory glow golden slumber green hast hath heart heaven heaven's gate heavenly HERBERT KNOWLES holy hope horned owl hour HYMN light live look Lord loved thee lyre MARTIN MARY HOWITT mighty morn mountain nature Nature's night o'er peace perfect law praise prayer pride pure rapture rose round seraph shade shine sigh silent sing skies SKYLARK sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit spring stars storm sublime sweet tears tempest tender thine things thou art thoughts throne tree Twas unto voice wave Weep wild winds wings
Popular passages
Page 10 - Dark-heaving ; — boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 24 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 2 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Page 124 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear...
Page 26 - So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take. His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams...
Page 41 - Direct, control, suggest this day All I design, or do, or say; That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite.
Page 3 - Into a sober pleasure ; when thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies...
Page 2 - And ye five other wandering fires, that move In mystic dance not without song, resound His praise, who out of darkness call'd up light. Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 15 - Are not the mountains, waves and skies a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them?
Page 164 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.