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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan

In Two Volumes. With a Portrait

Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841-1901)

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I.

Idyls and Legends of Inverburn.

Miscellaneous Poems.

North Coast, and other Poems.

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Sonnets WRITTEN BY LOCH CORUISK, ISLE OF SKYE.

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CORUISKEN SONNETS.

I.

I. Lord, is it Thou?

II.

II. We are Fatherless.

III.

III. We are Children.

IV.

IV. When we are all Asleep.

V.

V. But the Hills will bear Witness.

VI.

VII.

VII. Lord, art Thou here?

VIII.

VIII. God is Beautiful.

IX.

IX. The Motion of the Mists.

X.

XI.

XI. But Whither?

XII.

XII. God is Pitiless.

XIII.

XIII. Yea, Pitiless.

XIV.

XIV. Could God be Judged.

XV.

XV. The Hills on their Thrones.

XVI.

XVI. King Blaabhein.

XVII.

XVII. Blaabhein in the Mists.

XVIII.

XVIII. The Fiery Birth of the Hills.

XIX.

XIX. The Changeless Hills.

XX.

XX. O Mountain Peak of a God.

XXI.

XXI. God the Image.

XXII.

XXII. The Footprints.

XXIII.

XXIII. We are Deathless.

XXIV.

XXIV. A Voice in the Whirlwind.

XXV.

XXV. Cry of the Little Brook.

XXVI.

XXVI. The Happy Hearts of Earth.

XXVII.

XXVII. Father, forgive Thy Child.

XXVIII.

XXVIII. God's Loneliness.

XXIX.

XXIX. The Cup of Tears.

XXX.

XXX. The Light of the World.

XXXI.

XXXI. Earth's Eldest Born.

XXXII.

XXXII. What Spirit Cometh?

XXXIII.

XXXIII. Stay, O Spirit!

XXXIV.

XXXIV. Quiet Waters.

The Book of Orm.

Political Mystics.

Songs of the Terrible Year.

Saint Abe and his Seven Wives.

II.

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Help us when we are falling, as we help others who fall!
By land and by sea preserve us, O Father, Maker of all!
Comfort the sick and the weary with tidings of hope and of peace,
All children, all women who labour that what Thou hast made may increase,
Open the gates to the captive, lift up the weak and forlorn,
Feed, too, the fatherless orphans, comfort the widows that mourn.
Have mercy, Father in Heaven, and send Thy spirit to cheer us,
We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord!