black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem!

Abraham Coles

Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name?
ABRAHAM COLES

Crimson Feeling Flame Hand Heart Rapturous Touch
We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions;
ABRAHAM COLES

Birth Columbia Father Freedom Hail Ocean Return
The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity’s horizon evermore.
ABRAHAM COLES

Above Ascend Culminate Eternity Evermore Horizon
Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o’er all the Powers of Sound.
ABRAHAM COLES

Aerial Bony Cave Labrinthean Loss Mystic Pulse Sense Sweet
On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very close
ABRAHAM COLES

Climbing Eye Mystery Night Sleep Weep
Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country’s Banner!
ABRAHAM COLES

Banner Cheer Country Filling Shout Star
The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes
ABRAHAM COLES

Divine Rapturous Suffusion Surprise Touch
O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem!
ABRAHAM COLES

Angel Babe Born Christmas Illustrious Sweet Time
Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.
ABRAHAM COLES

Dust Eye Ignorance Ourselves Prejudice
He dares confront the time, And speak the truth, and give the world no rest No kingly threat can cowardize his breath, He with majestic step goes forth to meet his death.
ABRAHAM COLES

Breath Confront Coward Dare Speak Time Truth
Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.
ABRAHAM COLES

Death Despite Reunite Separate Unite
The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven
ABRAHAM COLES

Bind Heaven Loose Mouth Power Truth
O loving woman, man’s fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.
ABRAHAM COLES

Complete Fulfilment How Loving Sweet Useless Women
When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart’s secret was at once confessed?
ABRAHAM COLES

Clasped Hand Heart Lip Pressed Secret
Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight
ABRAHAM COLES

Father Fight Foemen Nobly Strove Stuck
The weary Body, longing for repose, On the gained level of the day’s ascent, Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.
ABRAHAM COLES

Ascent Body Day Gained Longing Night Pitch Repose

O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Abraham Coles Quotes