Poems

Theology in Extremis: Or a soliloquy… “They would have spared life to any of their English prisoners who should consent to profess Mahometanism, by repeating the […]

Moses Moses, man of God, surveys without pride the Land of Canaan . The Promised Land, where his tomb shall not lie. . . He contemplates, […]

A Christmas Hymn IT was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might, And now was Queen […]

A Glee For Winter HENCE, rude Winter! crabbed old fellow, Never merry, never mellow! Well-a-day! in rain and snow What will keep one’s heart aglow? Groups […]

A Maori Girl’s Song “Alas, and well-a-day! they are talking of me still: By the tingling of my nostril, I fear they are talking ill; Poor […]

An Invitation Well! if Truth be all welcomed with hardy reliance, All the lovely unfoldings of luminous Science, All that Logic can prove or disprove be […]

Babylon Babylon has fallen! Aye; but Babylon endures Wherever human wisdom shines or human folly lures; Where lovers lingering walk beside, and happy children play, Is […]

A Farewell Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea, Thy tribute wave deliver: No more by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. […]

After-Thought I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide, As being past away. -Vain sympathies! For backward, Duddon! as I cast my eyes, I see […]

All Things will Die All Things will Die Clearly the blue river chimes in its flowing Under my eye; Warmly and broadly the south winds are […]