Christian poetry, a selection by E. Farr |
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angels anguish art Thou awful beam beauty behold beneath blend blest bliss bosom breath breeze bright brow calm celestial charm child Christ CHRISTIAN CHRISTIAN POETRY clouds coffin breaks cold conscience creation creed Cross and Crown darkness dead death deep DEITY divine dread dream dust dust to dust E'en earth echoes Emmanuel eternity faith fancy fear feel Friendship gaze gleams gloom glory glow God's Godhead grace grave guilt hallow'd hath heart heaven holy hope hour hues hush'd light living Lord love eternal LUTHER mercy mercy seat MESSIAH mind minstrel shows nature ne'er o'er OMNIPRESENCE pangs perfect poetry prayer prophetic pure reign religion roam roll round saints Saviour scene seraphim shine sigh skies smiles sorrow soul spirit sublime tears tempest thee thine Thou art thought throbbing throne tomb tones touch'd truth vast voice waft waves weep wind wisdom words youth
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Página 108 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ...
Página 157 - A soulless thing, a spirit of the woods, He loves to commune with the fields and floods.
Página 37 - The leaves all flutt'ring with instinctive fears, The waters curling with a fellow dread, A breezeless fervour round creation spread, And, last, the heavy rain's reluctant shower, With big drops patt'ring on the tree and bower, While wizard shapes the bowing sky deform, — All mark the coming of...
Página 142 - And, like the sky-bird, hail the bright-cheek'd morn With gleeful song, then o'er the bladed mead To chase the blue-wing'd butterfly, or play With curly streams ; or, led by watchful love, To hear the chorus of the trooping waves, When the young breezes laugh them into life ! Or listen to the mimic...
Página 95 - So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Página 82 - Like meadow birds upon the wing, They roam without a fear, And breathe their thoughts on all who round them live, As light sheds beams, or flowers their perfume give. " And how the Church o'erawes their sense, With rite, and ritual graced ! Whose Creed is loving innocence, Which time hath not effaced. And would that those who manhood's paths have trod, Like...
Página 60 - DO ye here, in the presence of God, and of this congregation, renew the solemn promise and vow that was made in your name at your Baptism ; ratifying and confirming the same in your own persons, and acknowledging yourselves bound to believe, and to do, all those things, which your Godfathers and Godmothers then undertook for you ? * And every one shall audibly answer, I do.
Página 19 - Where can we hide beneath Thy blazing sun, Where dwell'st THOU not, the boundless, viewless One? Shall Guilt couch down within the cavern's gloom, And quiv'ring, groaning, meditate her doom...
Página 20 - There is a voiceless eloquence on Earth, Telling of Him who gave her wonders birth ; And long may I remain the adoring child Of Nature's majesty, sublime or wild ; Hill, flood, and forest, mountain, rock, and sea, All take their terrors and their charms from Thee, From Thee, whose hidden but supreme control Moves through the world, a universal soul.
Página 38 - Montgomery very coolly appropriates the image and reproduces the stolen goods in the following form: "And thou, vast Ocean, on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace.