Samuel John Stone

I lived from 1839-1900. I was from England, and am in the English category.

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• Tired. On A Picture Of A Tired Child

  ONLY the noon of day:
            And yet, tired out with too long play

  69 lines, 2 comments
• The Idylls Of Deare Childe. IV. The Rectory Farm. A Parish Idyll. In Two Parts. Part II.

                      At his side I watched,
  For he had been in Christ a son to me,

  275 lines
• Sublatum Ex Oculis. A Sonnet. Christmas, 1861.

  'O selfless man and stainless gentleman!'
  EVEN so, 'Goth giveth His beloved sleep!'

  16 lines
• The Idylls Of Deare Childe. IV. The Rectory Farm. A Parish Idyll. In Two Parts. Part I.

  THE little hamlet lies within the vale
  One side the winding river, yet it seems

  219 lines
• Hope And Faith

  MOTHER: thy name, trembling upon the breath,
  Makes loss so near and loneliness so lone

  14 lines
• The Soliloquy Of A Rationalistic Chicken. On The Picture Of A Newly Hatched Chicken Contemplating The Fragments Of Its Native Shell

                MOST strange!
  Most queer,— although most excellent a change

  60 lines, 1 comment
• The Idylls Of Deare Childe. III. The Quest Of Love. A Parish Idyll

  'The love of things created endureth not; the love of Jesus is faithful.'
  Thomas À Kempis.

  564 lines
• The Idylls Of Deare Childe. I. Deare Childe. A Parish Idyll

  'Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?'
  A SIMPLE cross, let in the outer wall

  204 lines
• In Memoriam

  'Until the day dawn.'
  DEAR father in the flesh and in the Lord,

  16 lines
• Love And Light

  ALL to the sea at last! Sweet is the hymn
  And its calm close, 'the ocean of His Love,'

  14 lines

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