William Henry Giles Kingston Holy Poems
- 1. Hymn To The Night
I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls!
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- 2. The Terrestrial Paradise. From Dante, Purgatorio, Xxviii
Longing already to search in and round
The heavenly forest, dense and living green,
Which to the eyes tempered the new-born day,
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- 3. Footsteps Of Angels
When the hours of Day are numbered,
And the voices of the Night
Wake the better soul, that slumbered,
To a holy, calm delight;
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- 4. Voices Of The Night. Prelude
Pleasant it was, when woods were green,
And winds were soft and low,
To lie amid some sylvan scene,
Where, the long drooping boughs between,
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- 5. The Celestial Pilot. From Dante's Purgatorio, Ii
And now, behold! as at the approach of morning
Through the gross vapours, Mars grows fiery red
Down in the west upon the ocean floor.
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- 6. Hymn Of The Moravian Nuns Of Bethlehem, At The Consecration Of Pulaski's Banner
When the dying flame of day
Through the chancel shot its ray,
Far the glimmering tapers shed
Faint light on the cowled head;
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Holy Poems by William Henry Giles Kingston
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