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Letter From A Missionary Of The Methodist Episcopal Church South, In Kansas, To A Distinguished Politician. Douglas Mission 1854.
John Greenleaf Whittier
LAST week — the Lord be praised for all His mercies
To His unworthy servant! — I arrived
Safe at the Mission, via Westport; where
I tarried over...
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Missionary Journey
Richard Newton Sherrer
I was made as a disciple,
According to the grace of God;
Through His power to the people,
Convince them to honor and laud.

Though I am the...
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The Missionary
Charlotte Brontë
LOUGH, vessel, plough the British main,
Seek the free ocean's wider plain;
Leave English scenes and English skies,
Unbind, dissever English ties; ...
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The Missionary
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is a glorious task to seek,
Where misery droops the patient head :
Where tears are on the widow’s cheek,
Where weeps the mourner o’er the...
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The Missionary - Canto Eighth
William Lisle Bowles
The morn returns, and, reddening, seems to shed
One ray of glory on the patriot-dead.
Round the dark stone, the victor-chiefs behold!
Still on their...
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The Missionary - Canto Fifth
William Lisle Bowles
'Tis dawn:--the distant Andes' rocky spires,
One after one, have caught the orient fires.
Where the dun condor shoots his upward flight,
His wings...
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The Missionary - Canto First
William Lisle Bowles
Beneath aerial cliffs, and glittering snows,
The rush-roof of an aged warrior rose,
Chief of the mountain tribes: high overhead,
The Andes, wild and...
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The Missionary - Canto Fourth
William Lisle Bowles
Far in the centre of the deepest wood,
The assembled fathers of their country stood.
'Twas midnight now; the pine-wood fire burned red,
And to the...
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The Missionary - Canto Second
William Lisle Bowles
The night was still and clear, when, o'er the snows,
Andes! thy melancholy Spirit rose,--
A shadow stern and sad: he stood alone,
Upon the topmost...
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The Missionary - Canto Seventh
William Lisle Bowles
The watchman on the tower his bugle blew,
And swelling to the morn the streamers flew;
The rampart-guns a dread alarum gave,
Smoke rolled, and...
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The Missionary - Canto Sixth
William Lisle Bowles
The second moon had now begun to wane,
Since bold Valdivia left the southern plain;
Goal of his labours, Penco's port and bay,
Far gleaming to the...
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The Missionary - Canto Third
William Lisle Bowles
Come,--for the sun yet hangs above the bay,--
And whilst our time may brook a brief delay
With other thoughts, and, haply with a tear,
An old man's...
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To Missionary Skrefsrud In Santalistan
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
I honor you, who, though refused, affronted,
Have heard the voice, and victory have won;
I honor you, who still by malice hunted,
Show miracles of...
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Of Andrew’s Spirit (the first missionary)
Wayne Blair
We have found Him
And know that He is truth
Distilled and pure.
A Certain Spring,
'Though damp and slush
Delay the budding.
A Prince with yarns...
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