The Treasury of American Sacred Song: With Notes Explanatory and BiographicalWilliam Garrett Horder H. Frowde, 1900 - 401 páginas |
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... and may we know That faith Thy servants knew of old , Which onward bears through weal and woe , Till Death the gates of heaven unfold . Nor we alone : may those whose brow Shows yet B 2 JOHN PIERPONT 3 EVENING HYMN FOR A CHILD ...
... and may we know That faith Thy servants knew of old , Which onward bears through weal and woe , Till Death the gates of heaven unfold . Nor we alone : may those whose brow Shows yet B 2 JOHN PIERPONT 3 EVENING HYMN FOR A CHILD ...
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... for thee , O our brother ! And for this we sorrow most , That a spirit so fair Must be breathed out there , On that stern Arabian coast : - * See Note . That a life so all unforeign , To faith and 6 10 NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM.
... for thee , O our brother ! And for this we sorrow most , That a spirit so fair Must be breathed out there , On that stern Arabian coast : - * See Note . That a life so all unforeign , To faith and 6 10 NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM.
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... faith and his country bound , Turned dying eyes Upon Asian skies , And dropped on Moslem ground . Away for the Holy City With pilgrim soul he trod ; But nearer at hand Must the pearl gates expand Of the city new of God . The judgment ...
... faith and his country bound , Turned dying eyes Upon Asian skies , And dropped on Moslem ground . Away for the Holy City With pilgrim soul he trod ; But nearer at hand Must the pearl gates expand Of the city new of God . The judgment ...
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... faith springs in the hearts of those Whose eyes are bathed in tears . But soon the morning's happier light Its glories shall restore ; And eyelids that are sealed in death Shall wake to close no more . George Washington . Doane THE ...
... faith springs in the hearts of those Whose eyes are bathed in tears . But soon the morning's happier light Its glories shall restore ; And eyelids that are sealed in death Shall wake to close no more . George Washington . Doane THE ...
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... faith its radiant hem , And spring immortal into life . Fling out the banner ! let it float Skyward and seaward , high and wide : Our glory , only in the Cross ; Our only hope , the Crucified ! Fling out the banner ! wide and high ...
... faith its radiant hem , And spring immortal into life . Fling out the banner ! let it float Skyward and seaward , high and wide : Our glory , only in the Cross ; Our only hope , the Crucified ! Fling out the banner ! wide and high ...
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angels beauty beneath birds blessed Boston breast breath bright calm child Christ Church cloud dark dawn dead dear death deep divine doth dream earth Edith Matilda Thomas Edmund Clarence Stedman eternal eyes face fair faith Father fear feet flowers glad glory God's golden hand Harvard Divinity School hath hear heart heaven heavenly holy hush hymn immortal Ina Donna Coolbrith James Freeman Clarke James Thomas Fields life's light lips living look Lord Louise Chandler Moulton Mass Mifflin morning mystery never night o'er pain peace poems poet praise pray prayer rest round sacred Sarah Chauncey Woolsey shadows shining silent sing skies sleep smile song sorrow soul spirit stars strife sweet tears tender Thee Thine things Thomas Bailey Aldrich Thomas Wentworth Higginson Thou art Thou hast thought to-day toil trust unto verse voice wait wandering weary wind wings
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Página 7 - TO him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 92 - As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel. Since God is marching on.
Página 9 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?
Página 99 - Then to side with Truth is noble When we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, And 'tis prosperous to be just: Then it is the brave man chooses, While the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit— Till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue Of the faith they had denied.
Página 57 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main; The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming Lair.
Página 26 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Página 34 - She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead.
Página 47 - The healing of His seamless dress Is by our beds of pain ; We touch Him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again.
Página 262 - As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God : I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies : By so many roots as the marsh-grass sends in the sod I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness-of God : Oh, like to the greatness of God is the greatness within The range of the marshes, the liberal marshes of Glynn.
Página 33 - The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let us be patient!