From Isles of the West to Bethlehem: Pictures, Poetry, Tales, Runes of Pilgrimage and ReceptionBasil Blackwell, 1921 - 125 pages |
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angels Antony beauty Bethlehem bird blessed Bride called Carmina Gadelica child Christ Christopher City Cross darkness death desire doth dreams Duncan earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING enter eyes face fair faith fall fear flowers follow foreign France give gold Grace ground hand hath head healing heart heaven hills holy island Isle Italy Jesus John King known land leave light living looked Lord meet morn Mother night o'er once opened pass Paul peace Poems Port pray prayer pure rest road Rocked rose Saint Saint Joseph seemed seen Shepherd shining singing sleep smile song soul sound Spirit stars sweet thanks thee things thou translated traveller turn unto voice Warrack young
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Page 68 - Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me ; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Page 14 - But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us : for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.
Page 68 - O, hark, O, hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O, sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O love, they die in yon rich sky. They faint on hill or field or river; Our echoes roll from soul to soul. And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Page 14 - Lo! such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod;' Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God.
Page 1 - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Page 7 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord...
Page 57 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write ; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing : O my only light, It cannot be That I am he On whom Thy tempests fell all night.
Page 116 - They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. 140 TRYING IT OUT They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old : Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
Page 14 - And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said ; Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.