PoemsTicknor and Fields, 1860 - 270 pages |
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Alma river Amiel angel faces angels Ardbeg art thou beauty behold bird blessed breast breath bright calm child clouds crown dark dawn dead dear death deep door Douglas dream drop earth eternity EUDOXIA evermore eyes face fair faith feet field flowers fond gate gliding grave grey hair hand happy hast hear heart heaven heaven's gate hills kiss Leonora life's light lips little hour living look lost merry mist morning mortal name I keep ne'er neath never night o'er pain pale peace Philip my king poor praise psalm quiet rest round Sails to-morrow Sebastopol shadow shine shore sigh silent sing sister sleeping slow smile snow soft song soul spring stands stars strange sweet tears thee thine thou art twixt unto voice watch wavelets waves weep Well-a-day Winding and grinding wren's nest
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Page 264 - GOD rest you, merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born upon this day, To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray. O tidings of comfort and joy! For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born on Christmas Day.
Page 47 - Yet thy father, far exiled, Sleeps upon the open sward, Dreaming of us two at home : Or beneath the starry dome Digs out trenches in the dark, Where he buries...
Page 84 - When summon'd clay to clay. But with an equal patience sweet, We should put off this mortal gear, In whatsoe'er new form is meet, Content to re-appear. Knowing each germ of life He gives Must have in Him its source and rise, Being that of His being lives May change, but never dies.
Page 265 - ... gray, When Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmasday. God rest ye, little children ; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night ; Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay, When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas-day. God rest ye, all good Christians ; upon this blessed morn The Lord of all good Christians was of a woman born...
Page 120 - O New Year, teach us faith! The road of life is hard: When our feet bleed and scourging winds us scathe, Point thou to Him whose visage was more marred Than any man's: who saith, "Make straight paths for your feet," and to the opprest, "Come ye to Me, and I will give you rest.
Page 119 - Waiting to strew them daily o'er the land Even as seed the sower. Each drops he, treads it in and passes by : It cannot be made fruitful till it die. O good New Year, we clasp This warm shut hand of thine, Loosing for ever, with half sigh, half gasp, That which from ours falls like dead fingers...
Page 46 - Ask no more, child. Never heed Either Russ, or Frank, or Turk, Right of nations or of creed, Chance-poised victory's bloody work : Any flag i...
Page 243 - In the old likeness that I knew, I would be so faithful, so loving, Douglas, Douglas, Douglas, tender and true.
Page 64 - Asks no more for the pleasure draught, but for the cup of balm, And all its storms and sunshine bursts Controls to one brave calm — Then step by step walks autumn, with steady eyes that show Nor grief nor fear to the death of the year While the equinoctials blow. — Mrs.
Page 117 - IT is the Christmas time : And up and down twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb. And unto everything That lives and moves, for heaven, on earth, With equal share of grief and mirth, The shining angels sing : — " Babes new-born, undefiled, In lowly hut, or mansion wide — Sleep safely through this Christmas-tide When Jesus was a child.