Love Triumphant: A Book of PoemsD. Estes, 1904 - 168 pages |
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arms Art thou Babylon beaker beneath bleed blood blue boughs breast breath brood brow butterfly child constellation creed dark dawn dear Death divine dream dust earth Eden So fair eyes face faint fair fear feet fierce fingers fire flame flowers God's Golden Door grass gray grow hair hand hath hear heart Heaven heights hills hills of home Immanent immortal Infinite ISTER kiss knew land Lift lived lonely Lord lost loud Love Triumphant Love's lyre Mary memory mirth mother Nazareth neath never night o'er passion peace poet prayer PURITANS rose scourge SEA OF FAITH shore sing skies sleep smile snow soil song soul spirit stars sword tears thee thine thing thou Throned thy lips to-day toil tow'rd truth voice warm watch waves Whence whisper wild winds wine wings wonder worship wound
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Page 1 - HELEN'S lips are drifting dust; Ilion is consumed with rust ; All the galleons of Greece Drink the ocean's dreamless peace; Lost was Solomon's purple show Restless centuries ago; Stately empires wax and wane — Babylon, Barbary, and Spain; — Only one thing, undefaced, Lasts, though all the worlds lie waste And the heavens are overturned. — Dear, how long ago we learned! There's a sight that blinds the sun, Sound that lives when sounds are done, Music that rebukes the birds, Language lovelier...
Page 111 - When navies are forgotten And fleets are useless things, When the dove shall warm her bosom Beneath the eagle's wings. When memory of battles. At last is strange and old, When nations have one banner And creeds have found one fold. Then Hate's last note of discord In all God's world shall cease, In the conquest which is service In the victory which is peace ! The Croghan Celebration.
Page 2 - ... Babylon, Barbary, and Spain; — Only one thing, undefaced, Lasts, though all the worlds lie waste And the heavens are overturned. — Dear, how long ago we learned! There's a sight that blinds the sun, Sound that lives when sounds are done, Music that rebukes the birds, Language lovelier than words, Hue and scent that shame the rose, Wine no earthly vineyard knows, Silence stiller than the shore Swept by Charon's stealthy oar, Ocean more divinely free Than Pacific's boundless sea, — Ye who...
Page 45 - Our crosses are hewn from different trees But we all must have our Calvaries; We may climb the height from a different side, But we all go up to be crucified. As we scale the steep, another may share The dreadful load that our shoulders bear; But the costliest sorrow is all our own, For on the summit we bleed alone.
Page 48 - AY, why should I fear Death, Who gives us life, and in exchange takes breath? He is like cordial Spring That lifts above the soil each buried thing ; — Like Autumn, kind and brief — The frost that chills the branches, frees the leaf; — Like Winter's stormy hours That spread their fleece of snow to save the flowers ; — The lordliest of all things — Life lends us only feet, Death gives us wings!
Page 22 - How many million stars must shine Which only God can see! — Yet in the sky His hand has hung Ten thousand stars for me! How many blossoms bloom and fade Which only God can know! — Yet here's my field of buttercups, And here my daisies blow. How many wing-paths through the blue Lure swallows up and down — Yet here's my little garden walk, And yon's the road to town! How many a treacherous voice has wooed Unhappy feet to roam — Yet God has taught my willing ear The sounds of love and home!...
Page 104 - PATRIOT WHO is the patriot? he who lights The torch of war from hill to hill? Or he who kindles on the heights The beacon of a world's good-will?
Page 97 - And man hears the call of his Father, And dares to rejoice; Even now, though Earth's harlotries lure him, He leans tow'rd the Voice ! L'ENVOI OLOVE triumphant over guilt and sin, My soul is soiled, but Thou shalt enter in ; My feet must stumble if I walk alone, Lonely my heart, till beating by Thine own, My will is weakness till it rest in Thine, Cut off, I wither, thirsting for the Vine, My deeds are dry leaves on a sapless tree, My life is lifeless till it live in Thee ! 97 IV. "I do love
Page 36 - WHEN the last day is ended, And the nights are through; When the last sun is buried In its grave of blue; When the stars are snuffed like candles, And the seas no longer fret; When the winds unlearn their cunning, And the storms forget; When the last lip is palsied, And the last prayer said; Love shall reign immortal While the worlds lie dead!
Page 49 - O all ye frightened folk, Whether ye wear a crown or bear a yoke, Laid in one equal bed, When once your coverlet of grass is spread, What daybreak need you fear? — The Love will rule you there that guides you here.