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42656Could more complete subversion be Of reason, taste and decency?
42656What shall it profit man the world to gain And yield his soul thereby to hell''s control?
42656Why will not men receive the light and live?
42656why has Christ been so misunderstood?
10630For me, so weak and sinful oh, shall I thus be blessed?
10630Is it for me to see Thee in all Thy glorious grace And gaze in endless rapture on Thy beloved face?
10630Is it for me, dear Saviour Thy Glory and Thy rest?
10630Now could I rest, when I had heard his fame, In that dark lonely land of death, from whence I came?
10630Was ever mythic tale or dream so bold as this reality, This stream of boundless blessings flowing full and free?
10630Who is this who comes to meet me On the desert way, As the Morning Star foretelling God''s unclouded day?
10630[ Illustration] What shall I render to my glorious King?
10630at Thy feet I fall, Oh, be Thou my all in all[ Illustration] Is it for Me?
10630is mine such blessedness to- day?
27851''Is that what the poem means?''
27851And who can tell of hands and feet The dimpled wonders, hidden charms, The dainty curves of legs and arms, So sweet and soft, so soft and sweet?
27851Can priestly lips, long silenced, raise A strain so lofty and so strong, Making our matin hymn of praise As jubilant as evensong?
27851Shall we take the verses in order?
27851The two questions which recur most frequently are( 1)''Is it true?''
27851and( 2)''What does it mean?''
27851then, what words can tell the bliss, The rapture of the fond embrace, When mother''s lips on baby''s face, Feast and are feasted with a kiss?
1719And was not God my armourer, All patient and unpaid, That sealed my skull as a helmet, And ribs for hauberk made? 1719 And well may God with the serving- folk Cast in His dreadful lot; Is not He too a servant, And is not He forgot?
1719Brothers at arms,said Alfred,"On this side lies the foe; Are slavery and starvation flowers, That you should pluck them so?
1719But even though such days endure, How shall it profit her? 1719 For was not God my gardener And silent like a slave; That opened oaks on the uplands Or thicket in graveyard gave?
1719I go not far; Where would you meet? 1719 Or that before the red cock crow All we, a thousand strong, Go down the dark road to God''s house, Singing a Wessex song?
1719To sweat a slave to a race of slaves, To drink up infamy? 1719 What goddess was your mother, What fay your breed begot, That you should not die with Uther And Arthur and Lancelot?
1719What have the strong gods given? 1719 Why dwell the Danes in North England, And up to the river ride?
1719Will ye part with the weeds for ever? 1719 And his grey- green eyes were cruel, And the smile of his mouth waxed hard, And he said,And when did Britain Become your burying- yard?
1719But as he came before his line A little space along, His beardless face broke into mirth, And he cried:"What broken bits of earth Are here?
1719But who shall look from Alfred''s hood Or breathe his breath alive?
1719Do you have joy without a cause, Yea, faith without a hope?"
1719Eldred the Good is fallen-- Are you too good to fall?
1719In cloud of clay so cast to heaven What shape shall man discern?
1719Not less barbarian laughter Choked Harold like a flood,"And shall I fight with scarecrows That am of Guthrum''s blood?
1719Or show daisies to the door?
1719Or will you bid the bold grass Go, and return no more?
1719Smiled Alfred,"Seek ye a fable More dizzy and more dread Than all your mad barbarian tales Where the sky stands on its head?
1719When Guthrum sits on a hero''s throne And asks if he is dead?
1719Where have the glad gods led?
1719are you bloodless now?"
54526Day dawned, yet the visions lasted; All too weak to rise he lay; Did he dream that none spake harshly, All were strangely kind that day? 54526 Nothing to do?"
54526Nothing to do?
54526Nothing to do?
54526Nothing to do?
54526Nothing to do?
54526Nothing to do?
54526What is Death, father?
54526What is life, father?
54526What question can be here? 54526 Where is the lamb, my father?"
54526-- What voice came through the sacred air?--"_ My child, give me thy Heart!_""Have I not laid before Thy shrine My wealth, O Lord?"
54526--_Adelaide Procter._ ARE ALL THE CHILDREN IN?
54526--_Adelaide Procter._ Does the Gospel word proclaim Rest for those that weary be?
54526--_Gerhard._ Where wilt thou put thy trust?
54526--_Matthew Arnold._ WHAT IS PRAYER?
54526All can be saved, but how?
54526All light and song; Each day I wonder, And say, How long Shall time me sunder From that dear throng?
54526And are there no mothers whose weary hearts You can comfort for Mary''s sake?
54526And art Thou come for saving, baby- browed And speechless Being-- art Thou come for saving?
54526And in perfect acquiescence is there not perfect rest?
54526And shall we meet the Master so, Bearing our withered leaves?
54526And then the drear sharp tongue of prophecy, With the dread sense of things which shall be done, Doth smite me inly, like a sword-- a sword?
54526And what is thy far errand, my fair child?
54526And would you know the reason why this is?
54526Are darkness and distress my share?
54526Are there no wandering Pilgrims now, To thy heart and thy home to take?
54526Art Thou a King, then?
54526Art come for saving, O my weary One?
54526Art thou alone, and does thy soul complain It lives in vain?
54526Art thou languid?
54526Art thou sore distrest?
54526Art thou weary?
54526Be of good cheer-- A home is here-- Rest in the Shadow of the Rock?
54526Before the whiteness of that Throne appear?
54526Blest with communion so Divine, Take what Thou wilt, shall I repine, When, as the branches to the vine, My soul may cling to Thee?
54526But how can I be deeming Myself a loving child, When here, and there, and everywhere, My thoughts are wandering wild?
54526But since the scope Must widen early, is it well to droop For a few days consumed in loss and taint?
54526But tell me how you know?
54526But what to those who find?
54526Can I suffice for HEAVEN, and not for earth?''
54526Could we bear from one another What He daily bears from us?
54526Could we choose a nobler joy?--and would we if we might?
54526Dazzling the bewildered vision, More than princely pomp we see: What the blaze of the Alhambra, Dome of emerald, to thee?
54526Did I yesterday Wash_ thy_ feet, my beloved, that they should run Quick to deny me''neath the morning sun, And do thy kisses, like the rest, betray?
54526Finding, following, keeping, struggling, Is He sure to bless?
54526For all upon this earth is broken beauty, Yet out of all what strange, deep lessons rise?
54526For it was He who gave them; Will He forget His own?
54526Go labor on; spend, and be spent,-- Thy joy to do the Father''s will; It is the way the Master went, Should not the servant tread it still?
54526Go labor on;''tis not for nought; Thy earthly loss is heavenly gain; Men heed thee, love thee, praise thee not; The Master praises, what are men?
54526Had God in heaven no work to do, But miracles of love for thee?
54526Had sickness seized him?
54526Has Fate o''erwhelmed thee with some sudden blow?
54526Has thy soul bent beneath earth''s heavy bond?
54526Hast Thou not one word for me?
54526Hast thou beneath another''s stern control Bent thy sad soul, And wasted sacred hopes and precious tears?
54526Hast thou found all she promised thee, Deceit, And Hope a cheat?
54526Hast thou found life a cheat, and worn in vain Its iron chain?
54526Hast thou found naught within thy troubled life Save inward strife?
54526Hast thou gone sadly through a dreary night, And found no light, No guide, no star, to cheer thee through the plain, No friend, save pain?
54526Hast thou o''er the clear heaven of thy soul Seen tempests roll?
54526Hast thou watched all the hopes thou wouldst have won Fade, one by one?
54526Hath He marks to lead me to Him, If He be my Guide?
54526Have I not bade youth''s joys retire, And vain delights depart?"
54526Have I not gained Thy grace, O Lord, And won in heaven my part?"
54526Have I not shunned the path of sin, And chosen the better part?"
54526Have I not watched and wept?"
54526Have the blessed angels Any truer bliss?
54526Hear''st thou, in the red morn, The angels''song?
54526Heir of glory, That shall be for thee and me?
54526Heir of glory, What is that to thee and me?
54526Heir of glory, What is that to thee and me?
54526Heir of glory, What is that to thee and me?
54526Heir of glory, What is that to thee and me?
54526Heir of glory, What is that to thee and me?
54526Heir of glory, What is that to thee and me?
54526How can we read the life, when we can not spell the heart?
54526How could I make me fair?
54526How do you love your father?
54526How hast thou passed the border?
54526How long, O Lord our God, Holy and true, and good, Wilt Thou not judge Thy suffering Church, Her sighs and tears and blood?
54526How shall we gauge the whole, who can only guess a part?
54526How shall we judge their present, we who have never seen That which is past forever, and that which might have been?
54526How shall we measure another, we who can never know From the juttings above the surface the depth of the vein below?
54526How tarry, when around us is thick night?
54526I am listening, Lord, for Thee; What hast Thou to say to me?
54526I know his approbation Outweighs all other meed, That his employ is always joy, But do I love indeed?''
54526I need Thy presence every passing hour, What but Thy grace can foil the tempter''s power?
54526I stood amazed, and whispered,"Can it be That He hath granted all the boon I sought?
54526I, a creature of a day, What can I know?
54526If I ask Him to receive me, Will He say me nay?
54526If I find Him, if I follow, What his guerdon here?
54526If I still hold closely to Him, What hath He at last?
54526In a frail form of clay, That to its element of dust Must soon resolve away?
54526In the rocks of the world Marches the host of mankind, A feeble, wavering line, Where are they tending?
54526Is it too late?
54526Is not His will the wisest, is not His choice the best?
54526Is not this enough, Though the desert prospect, Open wild and rough?
54526Is there diadem as monarch That His brow adorns?
54526Is there, betwixt the cherub that thou wert, The cherub and the angel thou may''st be, A life''s probation in this sadder world?
54526More oft than any else beneath the skies?
54526Must my prayer unanswered be?
54526My flesh, my Lord!--what name?
54526No weeping yonder?
54526No world to rule, no joy in self, And in his own infinity?
54526O Lord, Thou knowest it well?
54526O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now?
54526O wave, and breeze, and rill, and rock, and wood, Was it not God Himself that called you GOOD?
54526Of all I gave thee, warder, Hast conquered every foe?
54526Oh, where shall rest be found-- Rest for the weary soul?
54526Oh, who like Thee did ever go So patient through a world of woe?
54526Oh, who like Thee, so calm, so bright, So pure, so made to live in light?
54526Oh, who like Thee, so humbly bore The scorn, the scoffs of men, before?
54526Open all his wounds again, And the shameful cross renew?
54526Or will they find a broken reed, When strength of heart they so much need To help them brave the tide?
54526See His body mangled, rent, Covered with a gore of blood; Sinful soul, what hast thou done?
54526Seest thou the eastern dawn?
54526Servants of God!--or sons Shall I not call you?
54526Shall I not love Thee well?
54526Shall I then, choose my way?
54526Should not the loving bride The absent bridegroom mourn?
54526Should she not wear the weeds of grief Until her Lord return?
54526So long in mystic union held, So close with strong embrace compell''d, How canst thou bear the dread decree, That strikes thy clasping nerves from me?
54526So meek, forgiving, god- like, high, So glorious in humility?
54526So vile I am, how dare I hope to stand In the pure glory of that holy land?
54526Soul, soul, what wilt thou answer, When thou shalt stand alone, Before thy God and Saviour,''Midst th''glories of the throne?
54526Stephen the Sabaite._ 256"Looking unto Jesus"_ From the German._ 257 Evening Hymn_ Adelaide Procter._ 259 Are all the Children in?
54526Still heavy is thy heart?
54526Still sink thy spirits down?
54526Still to death thy Lord pursue?
54526Thy steps, can mortal eyes explore?
54526Upon an erring heart, Which hath its own sore ills to bear, And shrinks from sorrow''s dart?
54526Was he wroth?
54526Wert thou an untried dweller in the sky?
54526What course pursued below?
54526What do we give to our beloved?
54526What hast thou done for God, my soul?
54526What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the earth?
54526What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend; For this Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end?
54526What shall I fear to lose While I have Thee?
54526What think you?
54526What to that for which we''re waiting Is this glittering earthly toy?
54526What would we give to our beloved?
54526When shall the clouds that veil thy rays For ever be withdrawn?
54526When shall thy gladness dawn?
54526Whence came that beauty, whence that living glow?
54526Whence came that radiant white?
54526Where is death''s sting?
54526Where will thou cast thy care?
54526Wherefore didst thou fear?
54526Which of all our friends, to save us, Could or would have shed his blood?
54526Whither return?
54526Who like Thyself my guide and stay can be?
54526Who would dare the choice,_ neither_ or_ both_ to know, The finest quiver of joy or the agony- thrill of woe?
54526Whom we have left in the snow?
54526Why away, wandering from a home of bliss, To find thy way through darkness home again?
54526Why dost thou tarry, day of days?
54526Why marvel that thy Lord hath kept His word?
54526Why should this anxious load Press down your weary mind?
54526Will they have shelter then secure, Where hearts are waiting strong and sure, And love is true when tried?
54526Wilt thou let Him bleed in vain?
54526Yet that severe, that earnest air, I saw, I felt it once-- but where?
54526You do not think about it;''Tis never in your thought--''I wonder if I love him As deeply as I ought?
54526art thou then a common stone Which I at last must break my heart upon, For all God''s charge to His high angels may Guard my foot better?
54526be ev''ry murmur dumb, It is only"_ Till He come!_"Clouds and darkness round us press; Would we have one sorrow less?
54526does its beauteous ray Aught of hope or joy foretell?
54526for the Father portioneth as He will, To all His beloved children, and shall they not be still?
54526she cried;"Did Thy dear saints do more?
54526she cried;"Have I kept aught of gems or gold, To minister to pride?
54526she cries,"that strife divine, Whence was it, for it is not mine?"
54526such a glory was not for thee; But that care may still be thine; For are there not little ones still to aid For the sake of the Child divine?
54526what are tears?
54526what hast thou done for God?
54526what help?
54526what music will undo That silence to your sense?
54526where, grave, thy victory?
54526will He disown?
54526with such strange spells around me, Fairest of what earth calls fair, How I need thy fairer image, To undo the syren snare?