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Kind hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one
Have limits to its mercy; God has none.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Be strong to love, O Heart!
Love knows not wrong;
Didst thou love — creatures even,
Life were not long;
Didst thou love God in heaven,
Thou wouldst be strong!
Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses (1858)
It quieted pain and sorrow,
Like love overcoming strife;
It seemed the harmonious echo
From our discordant life.
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
If thou couldst trust, poor soul!
In Him who rules the whole,
Thou wouldst find peace and rest;
Wisdom and sight are well, but trust is best.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I do not ask that flowers should always spring
Beneath my feet
I know too well the poison and the sting
Of things too sweet.
A Chaplet of Verses (1862)
Hours are golden links, God's token
Reaching heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys. I do not know what I was playing,
Or what I was dreaming then;
But I struck one chord of music,
Like the sound of a great Amen.
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine
Like quiet night;
Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine
Through Peace to Light.
A Chaplet of Verses (1862)
Through the black night and driving rain
A ship is struggling, all in vain,
To live upon the stormy main;—
Miserere Domine!
Heaven unites again the links that Earth has broken!
For on Earth so much is needed, but in Heaven Love is all!
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
Half my life is full of sorrow,
Half of joy, still fresh and new;
One of these lives is a fancy,
But the other one is true.
Be strong to hope, O Heart!
Though day is bright,
The stars can only shine
In the dark night.
Be strong, O Heart of mine,
Look towards the light!
Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses (1858)
I have sought, but I seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the Organ,
And entered into mine. It may be that Death's bright angel
Will speak in that chord again,
It may be that only in Heaven
I shall hear that grand Amen.
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
I do not ask my cross to understand
My way to see:
Better in darkness just to feel Thy hand
And follow Thee.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Rejoice, oh! grieving heart,
The hours fly past;
With each some sorrow dies,
With each some shadow flies,
Until at last
The red dawn in the east
Bids weary night depart,
And pain is past.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The way is long and dreary,
The path is bleak and bare;
Our feet are worn and weary,
But we will not despair;
More weary was Thy burden,
More desolate Thy ways,
O Lamb of God, who takest
The sin of the world away,
Have mercy upon us.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A little longer yet — a little longer,
Shall violets bloom for thee, and sweet birds sing;
And the lime branches where soft winds are blowing,
Shall murmur the sweet promise of the Spring!
Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses (1858)
Starry Crowns of Heaven
Set in azure night!
Linger yet a little
Ere you hide your light:—
Nay; let Starlight fade away,
Heralding the day!