Messiah's Kingdom - The Epic by English Methodist Poetess Agnes Bulmer, published in 1833. The work, consisting of twelve books, relates in a poetic form to events in biblical history. The poem Agnes Bulmer was evaluated in The Ladies' Repository, and Gatherings of the West as follows: for beauty and felicity of diction, purity of thought, justness of conception and sublimity of imagination, is unsurpassed by any poetic production of that age. The author has been working on the epic for nine years. The poem has over fourteen thousand verses. The work was written in rhymed verse, only thirteen-point initial stanzas have a more complicated arrangement of consonances.
Of Him, high raised on Heaven's stupendous throne, Beneath whose feet the sapphire pavement glows; O'er whose intensest splendours, dread, unknown, The beaming bow its milder radiance throws; Around whose state, in bright attendance, close The full-toned choir of harping cherubim. Seraphs, whose robes empyreal lights compose, And angels, breathing soft the' adoring hymn:— Of Him, Eternal, Infinite, Supreme, Fain would a mortal Muse, adventurous, sing; Him, for archangel minds too vast a theme, Who yet, when babes their meek hosannas bring, Inclines with gentlest grace, and veils in Mercy's wing.
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