The Gem book of poesie, by the author of 'The ancient poets and poetry of England'.1846 - 160 pages |
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... shine like blazing noon Before thy piercing sight ! The beams of noon , the midnight hour , Are both alike to Thee ; O may I ne'er provoke that power From which I cannot flee . BLACKLOCK . THE DAYS OF CREATION . ( FROM THE GERMAN OF ...
... shine like blazing noon Before thy piercing sight ! The beams of noon , the midnight hour , Are both alike to Thee ; O may I ne'er provoke that power From which I cannot flee . BLACKLOCK . THE DAYS OF CREATION . ( FROM THE GERMAN OF ...
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... shine , And all things fair and bright are thine . When day with farewell beam delays , Among the opening clouds of even , And we can almost think we gaze Through golden vistas into heaven , Those hues that mark the sun's decline , So ...
... shine , And all things fair and bright are thine . When day with farewell beam delays , Among the opening clouds of even , And we can almost think we gaze Through golden vistas into heaven , Those hues that mark the sun's decline , So ...
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... shine , As in a fountain's 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 ...
... shine , As in a fountain's 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 ...
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... shine ; Wean our spirits from the creature , All below is little worth : Fix them on the Great Creator , And on thee , the Hope of Earth . Saviour ! by thy blood and passion , With thy favour , full and free , View us with thine own ...
... shine ; Wean our spirits from the creature , All below is little worth : Fix them on the Great Creator , And on thee , the Hope of Earth . Saviour ! by thy blood and passion , With thy favour , full and free , View us with thine own ...
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... shine With grace and glories more divine , Proclaiming sins forgiven ; There Faith , bright cherub , points the way To realms of everlasting day , And opens all her heaven . Then let the love that makes me blest , With cheerful praise ...
... shine With grace and glories more divine , Proclaiming sins forgiven ; There Faith , bright cherub , points the way To realms of everlasting day , And opens all her heaven . Then let the love that makes me blest , With cheerful praise ...
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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.