Famous Short Christian Poems

Famous Short Christian Poems. Short Christian Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Christian short poems

A Thought  

 It is very nice to think 
The world is full of meat and drink, 
With little children saying grace 
In every Christian kind of place.

To Captain H-----d of the 65th Regiment  

 Say, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight
The warrior's bosom in the fields of fight?
Lo! here the christian and the hero join
With mutual grace to form the man divine.

In H-----D see with pleasure and surprise,
Where valour kindles, and where virtue lies:
Go, hero brave, still grace the post of fame,
And add new glories to thine honour'd name,
Still to the field, and still to virtue true:
Britannia glories in no son like you.

To Thomas Atkins  

 I have made for you a song
 And it may be right or wrong,
But only you can tell me if it's true.

 I have tried for to explain
 Both your pleasure and your pain,
And, Thomas, here's my best respects to you!

 O there'll surely come a day
 When they'll give you all your pay,
And treat you as a Christian ought to do;
 So, until that day comes round,
 Heaven keep you safe and sound,
And, Thomas, here's my best respects to you!

To T. A  

 I have made for you a song,
 And it may be right or wrong,
But only you can tell me if it's true;
 I have tried for to explain
 Both your pleasure and your pain,
And, Thomas, here's my best respects to you!

 O there'll surely come a day
 When they'll give you all your pay,
And treat you as a Christian ought to do;
 So, until that day comes round,
 Heaven keep you safe and sound,
And, Thomas, here's my best respects to you!

Quia Absurdum  

 Guard yourself from the terrible empty light of space, the bottomless
Pool of the stars.
 (Expose yourself to it: you might learn something.
)

Guard yourself from perceiving the inherent nastiness of man and woman.

(Expose yourself to it: you might learn something.
)

Faith, as they now confess, is preposterous, an act of will.
 Choose the Christian sheep-cote
Or the Communist rat-fight: faith will cover your head from the man-devouring stars.

The Spider as an Artist  

 The Spider as an Artist
Has never been employed --
Though his surpassing Merit
Is freely certified

By every Broom and Bridget
Throughout a Christian Land --
Neglected Son of Genius
I take thee by the Hand --

If popularity you would ensue,   

If popularity you would ensue,
Speak well of Moslem, Christian, and Jew;
So shall you be esteemed of great and small,
And none will venture to speak ill of you.

J. Milton Miles  

 Whenever the Presbyterian bell
Was rung by itself, I knew it as the Presbyterian bell.

But when its sound was mingled
With the sound of the Methodist, the Christian,
The Baptist and the Congregational,
I could no longer distinguish it,
Nor any one from the others, or either of them.

And as many voices called to me in life
Marvel not that I could not tell
The true from the false,
Nor even, at last, the voice that I should have known.

Did no fair rose my paradise adorn,   

Did no fair rose my paradise adorn,
I would make shift to deck it with a thorn;
And if I lacked my prayer-mats, beads, and Shaikh,
'Those Christian bells and stoles I would not scorn.