Love Poems – Page 2762
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Saint Christopher
“CARRY me across!” / The Syrian heard, rose up, and braced / His huge limbs to the accustomed toil: … -
Scorn Not the Least
When words are weak and foes encountering strong, / Where mightier do assault than do defend, / The feebler part puts up enforced wrong, … -
The Right Must Win
O, It is hard to work for God, / To rise and take his part / Upon this battle-field of earth, … -
The Cost of Worth
From “Bitter Sweet” / THUS is it all over the earth! / That which we call the fairest, … -
The Laborer
Stand up—erect! Thou hast the form / And likeness of thy God!—Who more? / A soul as dauntless ’mid the storm … -
A True Lent
Is this a fast,—to keep / The larder lean, / And clean … -
From “The Church Porch”
Thou whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance / Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, / Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance … -
Briefs
Water Turned INTO WINE / THE CONSCIOUS water saw its God and blushed. / THE WIDOW’S MITES … -
Jewish Hymn in Babylon
God of the thunder! from whose cloudy seat / The fiery winds of Desolation flow; / Father of vengeance, that with purple feet … -
Example
We scatter seeds with careless hand, / And dream we ne’er shall see them more; / But for a thousand years …
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