We Are His PoetsXulon Press, 2007 - 228 Seiten Ralph Vile of Luray, Virginia, presents poems that he wrote from 1945 to 1961. This period encompassed his service in the U.S. Navy, college and seminary education, marriage and family, a call to the mission field, ill health, and a return to the Shenandoah Valley, where he and his wife, Joanna Griffith Vile, now live. They taught in public schools for many years and have been active laypersons at Mt. Carmel Regular Baptist Church. Ralph's poems center on the themes of home, family, God, Bible, church, and community. The author records his struggles with God's providence and his faith in His care. Even as they provide a backward glance at a time now gone by, these poems look confidently ahead to the future. They focus both on the beautiful visible world of nature and on the even more precious, once invisible, Word that was made flesh and dwelt among us. |
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Battle of the Bacon Poem 135 | 135 |
Caught Up Together Poem 142 | 156 |
How Shall They Hear? Poem 158 | 169 |
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amidst Bible blood Blue Ridge Mountains bring Calvary cast Christian Christmas Day church Cross dead dear death Delaware died Divine door earth eternity eyes face faith father fear fill gave give glad glory God's Guam hand Harrisonburg heart Heaven Heaven's gate Hell Help Holy hope hymns Joanna Johnson City land light Little Boy Blue live look love that held Luray mind mother never o'er once pain peace Philadelphia Poem pray prayer reach Regular Baptist Rose sacrifice saved Saviour seek Shenandoah Valley sing sins snow Snow Cream soul speak spirit stand suffer sweet tears tell Thee Thee I Sing things Thou thought throng thru Thy Word tree trod trust truth Twas only love U.S. Navy unto victory wait walk Walt Whitman wonder write