THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY
It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! O dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till t ...
And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heav ...
The huddling plains upstarted. The hills were all a-leap! But that is the mountains' secret, Age-hidden in their breast; "God's ...
The source of his grace and freshness And his peace everlasting to me. WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT. * SUNRISE. As on my bed at ...
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense, Weig ...
All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spit ...
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense. But trust Him for His grace: Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purpo ...
Sole Origin—all life, all beauty Thine; Thy word created all, and doth create; Thy splendor fills all space with rays divine; Th ...
Thou art!—directing, guiding all—Thou art! Direct my understanding then to Thee; Control my spirit, guide my wandering heart; Th ...
GOD IS EVERYWHERE. A trodden daisy, from the sward, With tearful eye I took, And on its ruined glories I, With moving heart, did ...
I sought a cheerless wilderness— A desert, pathless wild— Where verdure grew not by the streams, Where beauty never smiled; Wher ...
Roused me from sleep to wreck and death. In ocean cave, still safe with Thee The germ of immortality! And calm and peaceful shal ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON. * OUR GOD, OUR HELP IN AGES PAST. Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelt ...
A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing; Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing. For still our anc ...
She wafts my treasure from a foreign shore: But, Lord of oceans, when compared with thee, What is the ocean or her wealth to me? ...
I worship thee, sweet will of God! And all thy ways adore; And every day I live, I seem To love thee more and more. Thou wert th ...
And when it seems no chance or change From grief can set me free, Hope finds its strength in helplessness, And gayly waits on th ...
But leave it to a Higher Will To stay or speed me; trusting still That all is well, and sure that He Who launched my bark will s ...
And, filled and quickened by thy breath, Our souls are strong and free To rise o'er sin and fear and death, O Love of God, to th ...
Should Thine altered hand restrain The early and the latter rain, Blast each opening bud of joy, And the rising year destroy; Ye ...
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