Tag: 19th century
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‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
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‘No coward soul is mine’ by Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
No coward soul is mineNo trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:I see Heaven’s glories shine,And Faith shines equal arming me from Fear. 4O God within my breast, Almighty ever-present Deity!Life – that in me hast rest,As I – Undying Life – have power in Thee! 8 Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts:…
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‘Felix Randal’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Felix Randal the farrier, O is he dead then? my duty all ended, Who have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome Pining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it, and some Fatal four disorders, fleshed there, all contended? 4 Sickness broke him. Impatient, he cursed at first, but mended Being anointed and…
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‘St Peter’ by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
St. Peter once: “Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?”— Much more I say: Lord, dost Thou stand and knock At my closed heart more rugged than a rock, Bolted and barred, for Thy soft touch unmeet, 4 Nor garnished nor in any wise made sweet? Owls roost within and dancing satyrs mock. Lord, I have…
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‘My Cathedral’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Like two cathedral towers these stately pines Uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones; The arch beneath them is not built with stones, Not Art but Nature traced these lovely lines, And carved this graceful arabesque of vines; No organ but the wind here sighs and moans, No sepulchre conceals a martyr’s bones. No marble…
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‘Because I could not stop for Death’ by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
…. Since then ’tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day
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‘To the Union Savers of Cleveland’ by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1824-1911)
But when she, a hunted sister, Stretched her hands that ye might save, Colder far than Zembla’s regions, Was the answer that ye gave.
Christian Poetry Considered 