THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY
O Light of our dark sky; We praise thee for the radiance That from the hallowed page, A lantern to our footsteps, Shines on from ...
And calleth with a seraph's voice A nation up to pray! Those chimes that tell a thousand tales, Sweet tales of olden time; And r ...
For she is lovely to the Lord, For you, ye Christian bells! And heir of her historic fame, Though far away my birth, Thee, too, ...
Where the streams of the years flowed so noiseless and narrow, That across it there floated the song of the sparrow— For a sprig ...
We fathom not the mighty plan, The mystery of God and man; We women, when afflictions come, We only suffer and are dumb. And whe ...
And O, when stoops on Judah's path In shade and storm the frequent night, Be Thou, long-suffering, slow to wrath, A burning and ...
Thine, thine, this book, though given In man's poor human speech, Telling of things unseen, unheard, Beyond all human reach. No ...
The green repose above us stirred. "What part or lot have you," he said, "In these dull rites of drowsy-head? Is silence worship ...
The worthless grace that, out of sight, Flowers in the desert anchorite; Dissevered from the suffering whole, Love hath no power ...
The love wherewith it welcomes me! And still, with those alone my kin, In doubt and weakness, want and sin, I bow my head, my he ...
Themselves their gods and worshippers, No pulpit hammered by the fist Of loud-asserting dogmatist, Who borrows for the hand of l ...
Not on one favored forehead fell Of old the fire-tongued miracle, But flamed o'er all the thronging host The baptism of the Holy ...
But love's unforced obedience; That Book and Church and Day are given For man, not God,—for earth, not heaven,— The blessed mean ...
Then, kindling each decaying part, Creeps back to find the throbbing heart. But warmed with that unchanging flame Behold the out ...
A Fole he is and voyde of reason Whiche with one hounde tendyth to take Two harys in one instant and season; Rightso is he that ...
RELIGION AND DOCTRINE. He stood before the Sanhedrim; The scowling rabbis gazed at him; He recked not of their praise or blame; ...
The wisdom of the East was theirs, And honor crowned their silver hairs; The man they jeered and laughed to scorn Was unlearned, ...
And not partake, effect and not receive! A spark disturbs our clod; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that tak ...
Let us not always say, "Spite of this flesh to-day. I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and si ...
The Master work, and catch Hints of the proper craft, tricks of the tool's true play. As it was better, youth Should strive, thr ...
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