Messiah's Kingdom

Messiah's Kingdom is a long poem by Agnes Bulmer. It was published in 1833. It is regarded as the longest poem written by a woman. It consists of some 14,000 lines grouped in twelve books. The poem is written in heroic couplet but the introduction is made up of four 13-line stanzas like this one:


 * 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.

The poet was praised for "harmonious versification". The poem was reviewed also in The Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review.