Tag Archive for: Death

Let Us Gather Up The Sunbeams

Let Us Gather Up the Sunbeams 43611 Let us gather up the sunbeams, Lying all around our path, Let us take the wheat and roses Casting out the thorns and chaff; Let us find our sweetest comfort In the blessings of to-day, With a patient…

Minnehaha

Minnehaha 2981 Cease thy thy laughing, Minnehaha Cense thy laughing now for aye: Bavage hands are red red ed with wit slaughter Of the innocent today Cease thy gay noten, Minnehaha, Lest some mournful strain prevalli L isten while the…

Euoharist

EUOHARIST 5224 Thanks be for doubt that ends In clearer light; Thanks be for loss that lends Fresh faith to sight Grew not the fallow brown, Spring stood afar; Did not the sun go down, Never a star Thanks be for shame that whips On to emprise; Thanks…

Nearer Home

Nearer Home 1982 One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er: Im nearer to my home today Than I ever have been before Nearer my father's house Where the many manstons be: Nearer the great white throne, Nearer the crystal sea Nearer…

Slowing Up

SLOWING UP 5644 Everybody's runnin' In this eventful day; Runnin' some big business So's to make it pay; Runnin' for an office Or runnin' from the law- It's the fastest runnin' That this old world ever saw I want to stop a minute, So's…

Panting For Heaven

Panting for Heaven 3502 Ye angels who stand 'round the throne And View my Immanuel's face, In rapturous songs make him known Tune, tune your soft harps to his praise He formed you the spirits you are- So happy, so noble, so good When others…

How He Saved St Michael

How He Saved St Michael's 1792 So you beg for a story, my darling, my brown eyed Leopold, And you Alice, with face like the morning, and curling locks of gold Then come If you will, and listen; stand close beside my knee To a tale of the…

Our Father’s At The Helm

Our Father's at the Helm 1795 Our Father's Teren the howling winds may blow, And besventur vesas to a for Our Father's at the helm Though Irine to with close reefed natis, While beate the farious pale, Our chudike fatth will never fail Our…

When The Harvest Days Are Done

When the Harvest Days Are Done 2174 Near the fireside so cheerful He la dreaming of the days of long ago, And in fancy he is roaming With his sweetheart in the glouming Near the fireside so cheerful Sits and old man sad and tearful; He is…

An Old Man’s Story

An Old Man's Story 1695 "Tis only an oid man's strory-a tale we have oftheard told In a thousand forms and fancies, by the yourg sa ni well as old A tale of life drenged hellwad bound down by a demon's chain Till the friendly hand of temp'rance…

The Swan Song Of Parson Avery

The Swan Song of Parson Avery JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 2874 Pleasantly lay the clearings in the mellow sum mer morn, With the newly planted orchards dropping their fruits first born And the home roots like brown islands amid a sea of corn Broad…

The Years

THE YEARS St Louis Republic 1988 They come, they pass, with snow-soft fool, And deathless youth fiumes their eyes; Alike to them are chaff and wheat, Alike the foolish adn the wise, They bring the wound, they bring the balm, They light our…

Charge Of The Light Brigade

Charge of the LIght Brigade ALFRED TENNYSON 5634 Flashed all their ambers bare Finshed as they turned in air Hab'ring the gunners there Charging on army, while All the world wondered: Plunged in the battery smoke, Right through the line…

You Kissed Me

You kissed me! My head Dropped low on your breast With a feeling of shelter And infinite rest; While the holy emotions My tongue dared not speak Flashed up in a flame From my heart to my cheek Your arms held me fast; Oh! your arths so…

Questions

Questions 1608 Joy comes along with sorrow, And sorrow on with joy: What boots it which we borrow Since each has its alloy? Our life wears death for a jewel And death makes sweet our life; Which is more kind, more cruel, Which more rewards…

The Burning Heart

THE BURNING HEART 3032 Do heat to pallor-I, who sway Forever in the bread of strife, Not master, but the slave of life, A burning heart I bear! Yet death will full extinction give, Or kindly age a bound will set; So, if I live, I shall…

The Pessimist

THE PESSIMIST 5592 With Jaundiced eye he looks around And everything is wrong; A minor strain by him is found In every little song, And every rose that blooms at morn For him holds nothing but a thorn He sees no guerdon in the rain,…

Little Blossom

Little Blossom 6006 "Oh, dear! I'se so tired and lonesome! I wonder why mamma don't come; She told me to s'ut up my blue eyes, And 'fore I waked up she'd be home S'e suid s'e was going to see gamma; S'e lives by the river so bright; I…

Maggie Peer

Maggie Peer 1543 The bird of peace has spread ber wings Again in our glorious sky But plaintive and sad is the song she sings, So sad that many a sigh it brings, And tears to many an eye She has gained the prize, hut at fearful cost For…

Time Is Earnest

Time Is Earnest 2753 Time in earnest, passing by: Death is earnest drawing nigh: Sinner, wilt thou trifling be? Time and death appeal to thee Life is earnest: when 'tis o'er Thou returnest nevermore Soon to meet eternity Wilt thou never…