Children of the future age,  Reading this indignant page,  Know that in a former time,  Love, sweet Love, was thought a crime!…

Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean The children walking two & two in red & blue & green Grey-headed…

Earth rais’d up her head, From the darkness dread & drear. Her light fled: Stony dread! And her locks cover’d with grey…

In futurity I prophetic see That the earth from sleep (Grave the sentence deep) Shall arise and seek For her Maker meek;…

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel…

When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ” ‘weep!…

The little boy lost in the lonely fen, Led by the wandering light, Began to cry, but God, ever nigh, Appeared like…

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy,…

Can I see another’s woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, And not seek for kind relief?…

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine, Love was born at Christmas, Star and Angels gave the sign. Worship…

(Excerpt) But wherefore be harsh on a single case? After how many modes, this Christmas Eve, Does the self-same weary thing take…

Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes — Some have…