Messiah's Kingdom is a long poem by Agnes Bulmer.Agnes Bulmer 18th at Century Religion, Literature, and Culture. It was published in 1833. It is regarded as the longest poem written by a woman.Richard Watson Dixon, Bulmer, Agnes at Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 07.Andrew O. Winckles, The Book of Nature and the Methodist Epic: Agnes Bulmer's Analogic Poetics and the End(s) of Romanticism. It consists of some 14,000 lines grouped in twelve books. The poem is written in heroic coupletHerbert F. Tucker, Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910, p. 284. 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".British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, &c., Vol. III, 1833, p. 585. The poem was reviewed also in The Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review.The Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, XV (New series IV), 1833, p. 473-477.
References
Bibliography Agnes Bulmer, Messiah's Kingdom, New York 1833.